pwrchute.exe

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Windows Process Description:

The pwrchute.exe process is located in the C:/Program Files/APC_Power/subfolder. The pwrchute.exe process is also known as the PowerChute program made by American Power Conversion or APC. The main function of the pwrchute.exe program is to take control of the uninterruptible power supplies or the UPS devices that the APC Company produces. Whenever an extended power outage occurs unexpectedly, the pwrchute.exe process makes it sure that any server or workstation in the affected areas are made to have a graceful unattended shutdown. This means that whenever there is power outage, the pwrchute.exe process saves your application files and closes Windows safely. The pwrchute.exe program is also capable of monitoring and recording the UPS status.

The PowerChute program has a Business Edition where it is connected via USB or serially to the UPS. There is also the Network Shutdown version that is capable of communicating over a computer network to any APC UPS that is network enabled. These network enabled APC UPS devices are those that have a Network Management Card.

The pwrchute.exe process has many helpful features. This program generates a power analysis graph that graphs power and the UPS events using time of day or week. This provides easier identification of recurring and periodic power disturbances. This feature can be found in the deluxe version of pwrchute.exe program. Another essential feature of the pwrchute.exe process is the Risk Assessment Summary that allows uptime maximization. This feature identifies some potential threats to your equipment's availability like insufficient runtime and battery aging. The process pwrchute.exe is compatible with the Enterprise Management System which allows you to manage APC devices using just a single system through event SNMP trap forwarding to the enterprise management system of your choice. The Hibernation feature of the pwrchute.exe program allows the preservation of your system's entire state which increases the speed of the recovery time. Some other features that the pwrchute.exe program offers are the fault notification, the power event summary, and the management of multiple UPS's.

Author: American Power Conversion or APC.

Author URL: http:// www.apc.com/ products/ family/ index.cfm?id=125

Part Of: PowerChute

Memory Usage: Low. The process pwrchute.exe uses only 700kb of virtual memory.

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