----- original question -----
Can someone please tell me if it is possible to get an Alpha system
to power off automatically after a shutdown completes?
I have a 1000A, a 4100, an 8400 and a GS60E.
Running Tru64 4.0D and F
Thank you in Advance.
--------- consensus -------------
No. Or at least not without some fancy dancing so to speak
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Replies:
Oisin McGuinness [oisin_at_sbcm.com]
No unless you control a UPS from the shutdown scripts.
Many UPS companies (e.g. APC) provide UPS's with serial interfaces, which
you
can cables to the Alpha's serial port; I believe
somewhere on some OS CD there is some software for querying/setting the
state of these.
Then all you have to
do is have the last script called in /sbin/rc0.d from /sbin/rc0 (worth
reading
to see exactly what init 0 does) tell the UPS, after an appropriate delay
(see
the sleep amounts in /sbin/rc0, and experiment) to turn off the power.
Philip.Ordinario_at_bmo.com
I am not sure if it is possible. It can only go as far as the console
prompt.
Colin Walters [walters_at_zk3.dec.com]
I can't find any such information on how to do this from the OS,
although I note that the environmental monitoring feature seems
to support automatic powerdowns.
Some systems support the RMC console (documented in hardware
manuals). which has an RMC power off option. I don't know if this
can be invoked as paert of a script though, unless done from a
remote connection.
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Received on Fri Sep 15 2000 - 12:59:09 NZST