UPS Battery Backup software--PowerChute Serial Shutdown

Hello All

Well finally decided to update to the Supported APC Battery backup software, thinking oh its gonna work fine this time--wrong!

Keep Getting Invalid Cert when i goto Open Application

Been working on this all day to try to get it to work properly, im out of ideas, besides fully remvoing it and trying my luck with Windows Native Battery Backup or Reinstalling old discontinued PowerChute Personal Edition. Then in a year or so replacing this UPS with a Cyberpower model

So steamed right now lol

**Heading to Bed for tonight, will look at replies in morning if there is any** i'm exhausted, been up since 6am trying to get this to work right

bikemanI7 said:

Hello All

Well finally decided to update to the Supported APC Battery backup software, thinking oh its gonna work fine this time--wrong!

Keep Getting Invalid Cert when i goto Open Application

Been working on this all day to try to get it to work properly, im out of ideas, besides fully remvoing it and trying my luck with Windows Native Battery Backup or Reinstalling old discontinued PowerChute Personal Edition. Then in a year or so replacing this UPS with a Cyberpower model

So steamed right now lol

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Do you have an APS UPS? Up to now I have used PowerChute Personal Edition. Last updated in 2019 I didn't realize it was discontinued. Never got a notification about that.

So I did some searching and found and downloaded the Serial Shutdown software. I'll install it in a few days. I have to say that the Schneider webite is a good "negative role model," how not to set up a website for individual users. I had to "register my company, and i ended up registering my name as my company.

Yes I do have APC Ups, BN1350M2. Hopefully you have better experience with this software, or at least figure out invalid ssl cert issue, as I've been. Trying to since yesterday

bikemanI7 said:

Yes I do have APC Ups, BN1350M2. Hopefully you have better experience with this software, or at least figure out invalid ssl cert issue, as I've been. Trying to since yesterday

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I had no issues with the web server cert. And this past week, bad rainstorms, we had 2 blackouts but the UPS just clicked and my desktop never stopped running.

I have been using the following since 2019:

• APC Back-UPS Pro (BX850M)
• PowerChute Personal Edition 3.1.0

I didn't know until somebody just said so here that PowerChute Personal Edition had been discontinued. I have just downloaded PowerChute Serial Shutdown and will install it now.

Strangely I have had no problems with the UPS until tonight. We had a couple thunderstorms move through this earlier this afternoon. Tonight with no warning I heard the UPS alarm go off. I also noticed that the computer was now powered off. I didn't know why the alarm was sounding so I powered off the UPS. After 10 seconds I powered the UPS back on. After the UPS was powered up again I booted the computer again. I was perplexed when I ran PowerChute PowerChute Personal Edition and saw that there were no interruptions today at all. I don't know why the UPS did what it did.

I just installed PowerChute Serial Shutdown. It is different in that it runs in a web browser.

I have no idea why I have the cert issue at all, guess work on mine more tomorrow when I fully wake up

I, like others, never knew about the new software until October last year when I visited their site.

Anyway, uninstalled the old software, installed PowerChute Serial Shutdown and it has run smoothly ever since.

bikemanI7 said:

Then in a year or so replacing this UPS with a Cyberpower model

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I think you will be very pleased with Cyberpower. I run four Cyberpower units in my basement and they are all very reliable. I also run a couple of other brands. As I live in a fairly isolated area in north western Canada, okay I confess . . . Since I'm practically living out in the bush, brown outs are not uncommon here and power spikes are a regular deal. Cyberpower has proven itself to be the most reliable of all my UPS and the company stands behind its product.