My first reaction is that remote PCs (like the one say in your son's room for example) likely died the second the power was lost in the first place. Therefore it will not be around to listen to the shutdown command.
But where this does come into play (and and he explains) is when you have multiple PCs plugged into one UPS, as you might in a home office for example. The UPS can only instruct a single PC that it's battery is critical. That one PC could shutdown the others. Read more of Alex's article here. He has an interesting solution.
In related news, Grid Junction author Alexander Kent released 1.35 RC2 over this past weekend. You may find it easier to setup than doing it yourself (although I don't believe it has "remote shutdown" capabilities). Check it out at http://www.gridjunction.com.
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Actually Grid Junction does have this capability but I have yet to get it working as I'm new to WHS and GJ.
The author of GJ has a sample script to do this job. Here's a link to it.
http://www.gridjunction.com/gridjunction-custom-actions-sample-scripts
Thanks for posting this as I'll certainly give this a try if I can't get the script going in GJ.
The article uses APC UPSes with no mention of other compatability - you might want to update your picture if it isn't an APC (not that I'm an APC employee as I'm not).
@Traci - Nice catch :)
APC Powerchute users beware dont run it on the WHS I lost data! nough said
I did get the script working after looking at this thread.
http://www.homeserverland.com/forums/t/109.aspx
I had to allow WMI through Vista's firewall as well as enable the built-in admin account to get it to work.
thanks for the sharing this, i will try it soon, thanks once again
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