... just a bit shitty in parts. In particular, it assumes the PC it is running on is being powered by the UPS it is monitering. And there is no way to configure it otherwise. How did I find this out? A place I used to work had several UPSs, each bought as the previous one ran out of capacity. And the oldest UPS didn't have an ethernet card so we had to use the PowerChute software. On a server that wasn't on the UPS in question. And the UPS had a battery failure. And shutdown the (wrong) server. Apart from that, it's nice software.

It sounds like the O'Reilly book is a decent island of Reality in the Microsoft Distortion Field that runs through most Windows Server texts... PDC and BDC shenanigans is only one of the Things Wrong with NT.

Wade.