APC PowerChute 7.x Upgrades

Fellow OrlandoSBS guy R. Scott Buchanan first called out this problem on our list on Monday, but it turns out a lot more people do not know about it:

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.

To sum it up, if you need to reboot a system with PowerChute 6.x on it, the system may hang or sit at the “Applying computer settings…” prompt for about 20 minutes.

If you are still on Windows NT this ought to be the least of your worries, but you can apply PowerChute Business Edition 7.0.2 to resolve this issue on Windows NT.

Please download the latest version of PowerChute Business Edition 7.0.4 to resolve this problem on a newer edition of Windows.

If you’ve already rebooted and cannot seem to get back into Windows to install the new release, please boot into the safe mode and shut down, set to manual or disable APCPBEAgent and APCPBEServer services. Reset them to automatic after you’ve upgraded to 7.x.