User guide

Dell UPS Management Software: VMware vMA 5.0.0.1 and 5.0.0.2 Shutdown Implementation

When you test the shutdown script through the Dell UPS Local Node Manager (ULNM) Web interface,

nothing happens. Follow Implementation Step 1 to confirm that Release 2 of ULNM software is

installed.

Implementation

To implement shutdown, follow these steps:

1. Confirm you are using Dell UPS Management Software Release 2, 01.04.0010 (A02).

If you are not using this release, download Release 2 software from www.dellups.com:

Select:  Software & Technical Documentation

 Software Downloads

 Dell Multi-UPS Management Console and UPS Local Node Manager Software

[Release 2, July 2012]

 Install Multi-UPS Management Console (MUMC) and ULNM

2. Download the perl shutdown script from www.dellups.com:

Select:  Software & Technical Documentation

 Software Downloads

shutdownESXi.zip

3. Copy the perl shutdown script from your computer to the vMA (with winSCP or scp command

line).

4. Move the perl shutdown script in the application bin folder

‘/usr/local/Dell/UPSLocalNodeManager/bin/virt_tools/’:

# mv shutdownEsxi.pl /usr/local/Dell/UPSLocalNodeManager/bin/virt_tools/

5. Go to this script folder:

# cd /usr/local/Dell/UPSLocalNodeManager/bin/virt_tools/

6. Test the script with the command line in the documentation:

# perl shutdownESXi.pl --server esxi01.domain.com --username root --password

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Advanced information

Once you are sure that the “LWP::UserAgent” perl module version is older than the expected one, you

can directly modify the existing “shutdownESXi.pl” script in the folder,

“/usr/local/Dell/UPSLocalNodeManager/bin/virt_tools/” without having to download the

workaround. You can simply add the following at the beginning of the existing “shutdownESXi.pl”

script: