APC UPS to initiate a graceful shut down of Simpivity

[JN3]

Can an APC UPS initiate a graceful shutdown of a Simplivity host as it does with a normal ESX host? I know that shutting down a Simplivity host gracefully, first requires the OVC to be shutdown using the Simplivity menu.    Thanks

[KGman]

Hi @JN3,

The only limitation here would be whether or not APC UPS has a CLI outlet to set up scripts to perform your required actions in the event of an outage. You can easily issue a safe simplivity shutdown 'svt-shutdown-safe' and allocate a period a time to allow the process to complete before moving forward with the ESXi host itself.

I hope this helps,

[JN3]

Thanks, we will give it a try.

[tpaulat]

You can also try initiating the shutdown using the REST API but please be aware that only 3.7.6 and newer releases support this

You can find more information here: https://developer.hpe.com/platform/hpe-simplivity/whats-new

Possible commands to try:

POST shutdown_virtual_controller

POST cancel_virtual_controller_shutdown

GET virtual_controller_shutdown_status

I`m not very experienced in REST API so you`ll need to check it out. Hope this helps further!