Use Your UPS to Gracefully Shut Down Your PC During Power Outages

UPS management, graceful shutdown, and energy management software for servers and workstations using dedicated serial or USB connections.

Millions of protected customers! – “With PowerChute Business Edition installed, it’s as if the outage never happened”. Richard Verry, Systems Administrator & Software Engineer, The Children’s Institute.

This APC Smart-UPS is designed for IT professionals or network administrators to maintain business uptime and continuity. The 750VA line interactive tower UPS provides pure sine wave power to support critical electronics during power disruptions. It comes with IEC 320 C14 input, 6x IEC 320 C13 outlets, and 2x IEC jumper cables.

It has a SmartSlot for optional Network Management Card that enables graceful shutdown of physical servers, virtual machines & HCI Clusters via PowerChute Network Shutdown. The UPS can connect to EcoStruxure IT or third-party centralized management platforms.

It provides surge protection against lightning strikes, power sags, brownouts and surges. The SMT UPS has a 3-year warranty, and built-in lead-acid battery has a 2-year warranty. It is compatible with a dedicated user-replaceable battery, and the APC replacement battery cartridge helps restore UPS performance to the original specifications.

Use Your UPS to Gracefully Shut Down Your PC During Power Outages (howtogeek.com)

If you live in an area that has a lot of blackouts, brownouts, and spikes in your electricity, it’s important to have a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply)  to protect your investment. Here’s how your APC UPS can shut down your PC gracefully.

A UPS isn’t just for IT infrastructures and should be part of your desktop PC and home network protection strategy—especially if you have a home media server. In a power outage, it provides emergency power via battery, allows you to safely save your data, and power down your machine properly.

What You’ll Need

For the purposes of today’s article, we’re covering how to use an APC brand UPS, though most other brands of UPS will provide a similar software package that works the same way. Here’s what you’ll need:

  • An APC UPS with a Data Port
  • RJ45 Male to USB Male Data Cable (this should be included with your UPS)
  • PowerChute Personal Edition software (Windows only) – Included with the UPS

For this article we’re using an APC Model. Features may vary based on your model and operating system.

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