• American Power Conversion (APC) is a leading manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and surge protection products for end-to-end legendary reliability.
• Installing APC Powerchute Network Shutdown 3 on VMWare ESXi. APC Powerchute Network Shutdown (PCNS) version 3 is much improved from the older versions. The instructions to install in ESXi are still not the greatest, but I managed to get through it easy enough with hardly any Linux skills.
• Learn how to do the APC UPS PowerChute Network Shutdown installation on Linux, by following this simple step-by-step tutorial, you will be able to install and configure PowerChute on Linux.
• Server Core on Server 2016 has.NET binaries built-in so most management software can run on top of it now. I've not run this one specifically, but another option would be to install the PowerChute agent on the host and use a network management card in the UPS to trigger the necessary script(s)/PowerShell to shut down the host and guests.
• This is going to be one of those posts where I just dump stuff. Power failures are shite, and if your server isn't talking with your UPS, it won't shut down gracefully. This is the story of my trying to get APC's PowerChute Network Shutdown working on a ProxmoxVE 5.1 environment. Note I opted out of using either nut or apcupsd, because I had a nice fancy Network Management Card (NMC2.
• Server Core on Server 2016 has.NET binaries built-in so most management software can run on top of it now. I've not run this one specifically, but another option would be to install the PowerChute agent on the host and use a network management card in the UPS to trigger the necessary script(s)/PowerShell to shut down the host and guests.

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fter you install APC PowerChute Business Edition UPS software, especially PowerChute Business Edition version 6.x may experiencing various errors and problems. The symptoms that may appear after installation PowerChute Agent, Server or Console including slow reboot of the server, network connections is blank, inability or extremely slow boot up, programs cannot be added or removed, services cannot be started or stopped, no access to Internet, RWW, and the APC Agent is in a hung starting state. Uninstall and remove or upgrade the APC PowerChute Business Edition will solve most problems, however, sometimes automatic removal of PowerChute is not working properly from Add and Remove Programs of Control Panel, or upgrade and/or uninstallation fails. In this case, user will have to uninstall and remove APC PowerChute Business Edition manually.

Is anyone familiar with setting up an APC uninterruptible power supply (UPS) with Server Essentials 2016. The native power configuration settings have several settings but I am not sure how to set them. The UPS and server are connected with a USB cable and the server shows the UPS connected in device manager. /dell-bios-version-check.html.

Steps to manually remove and uninstall PowerChute UPS software

1. Stop the APC PBE Agent and APC PBE Server services if they exist. If the services are in hung “Starting” state, run Task Manager and terminate the respective processes. (You can know the process name from the service’s properties – normally pbeserver.exe).
2. Delete and remove the following folders by using Windows Explorer or My Computer:

   Best windows 7 themes. Agent:
   C:Program FilesAPCPowerChute Business Editionagent (or any other install path specified during installation)
   C:Program FilesInstallShield Installation Information{BCE9F441-9027-4911-82E0-5FB28057897D}

   Server:
   C:Program FilesAPCPowerChute Business Editionserver
   C:Program FilesCommon FilesAPC
   C:Program FilesInstallShield Installation Information{A6491A4A-AAA0-4892-BFEF-ECD6CECE2FF3}

   Console:
   C:Program FilesAPCPowerChute Business Editionconsole
   C:Program FilesInstallShield Installation Information{0F86FD09-BA63-4E45-A70B-604C1106C2F2}

3. Go to the Start menu, click on Run, and then type regedit. Press Enter key or click on OK when done to launch registry editor.
4. Find or navigate to the following registry branch and then delete the the registry branch together with all its registry keys:

   Agent:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREAPCPowerChute Business Edition
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAppPathsv:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall{BCE9F441-9027-4911-82E0-5FB28057897D}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001EnumRootLEGACY_APCPBEAGENT
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesAPCPBEAgent
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesEventlogApplicationAPCPBEAgent
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumRootLEGACY_APCPBEAGENT
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesAPCPBEAgent
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesEventlogApplicationAPCPBEAgent

   Server:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall{A6491A4A-AAA0-4892-BFEF-ECD6CECE2FF3}
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001EnumRootLEGACY_APCPBESERVER
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesAPCPBEServer
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumRootLEGACY_APCPBESERVER
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesAPCPBEServer

   Console:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREAPCPowerChuteBusinessEditionconsole
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionApp Pathsconsole.exe
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall{0F86FD09-BA63-4E45-A70B-604C1106C2F2}

   You may have error of insufficient permissions on some keys when try to delete some registry keys such as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001EnumRootLEGACY_APCPBESERVER registry branch. This the due to security settings on the registry keys that protect them from accidental deletion. To change the security, select the key to be deleted, and right click on it to go to the security menu option. On the context menu displayed, choose permissions. On the Groups and users section, select your own user account or group, and make sure that at the permissions section below, Full Control is selected to grant you full access to the key. If you don’t know which user account or group account that your belongs, simply set Full Control access to Everyone as the registry key will be deleted and permissions will not be an issue.
5. Exit the registry and uninstallation of Powerchute is done.

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