UPS - Two computers - How to get them to both shutdown when battery is low?

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Published on 2010-01-30T20:18:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 0:43 UTC
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Short Version: How do I get 2 computers to shutdown when a UPS battery gets low?

Long Version:

I have an APC UPS, the RS 1500. It has a USB cord that goes into my main dev computer. My dev computer will shutdown when the battery gets low.

However, in addition, I have now hooked up a database server to the same UPS.

How can I have that database server also know that it needs to shut down when the battery gets low?

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