[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] APC's understatement of the year - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Saturday, August 06, 2005 8:50 PM bradley

APC's understatement of the year

On the APC web site is this tech note

“In order for PowerChute Business Edition to remain functional, users must upgrade to any version of 7.x. Due to expiration of the Sun Java Runtime Environment certificate, versions 6.x of PowerChute Business Edition will cease to operate normally as of July 27, 2005. Failure to upgrade will result in PowerChute Business Edition no longer providing monitoring and graceful shutdown of your system.“

What it really should say:

In order for PowerChute Business Edition your Server that your business relies on to remain functional and boot worth a darn and not sit there for eons stuck on Applying Computer settings, users must upgrade to any version of 7.x. Due to expiration of the Sun Java Runtime Environment certificate, versions 6.x of PowerChute Business Edition will cease to operate normally as of July 27, 2005. Failure to upgrade will result in PowerChute Business Edition no longer providing monitoring and graceful shutdown of your system.  Failure to upgrade will result in you spending hours debugging the problem thinking it's viruses, corruptions, harddrive issues, and possibly cause network consultants to rebuild entire networks and spend unnecessary hours and weekends stuck fixing this.

APC?  Be a bit more honest about this... I'm not looking forward to next Tuesday when we'll have that possible forced reboot for a patch day coming up.  Remember this only nails you after you've been forced to reboot.

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# re: APC's understatement of the year

Sunday, August 07, 2005 6:07 PM by bradley

Sooo that's what's going on. Thanks. I was about to spend Monday figuring out why after upgrading to SBS SP1 at 2 locations the APC services were hanging the entire server. You saved me a whole day of work!

# re: APC's understatement of the year

Sunday, August 07, 2005 9:15 PM by bradley

sounds like somebody needs to send the diva a case of mountain dew...

# re: APC's understatement of the year

Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:05 AM by bradley

If only I'd seen this before we had the power cut in our satellite office last week!

Spent all day rebuilding the server (it had no network /internet/anything!!), got everything set up then went to grab my APC PBE version 6 disk and I couldn't for the life of me get the PBE Server to run. Went to the APC website to troubleshoot the problem and low-and-behold, found that version 6 was no good. Now there's me sat here thinking if only I had removed PBE6 and stuck on PBE7 instead maybe the problem would have gone away in five minutes instead of 5 hours!

You live and learn.

# re: APC's understatement of the year

Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:23 PM by bradley

Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU!Thank YOU! 1000 times! You saivd me tons of work. Six sites down because of this!

# re: APC's understatement of the year

Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:11 AM by bradley

Argh, hours and hours of searching. No obvious cause.... APC Thanx!