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Seeeduinov4.2 is an Open Source, Arduino-compatible ATmega328 MCU development board. We think Seeeduino v4.2 is one of the best Arduino derivatives/compatibles available. Seeeduino v4.2 is feature rich, much more stable, easy-to-use and even good looking.

Seeeduino v4.2 is based the Arduino UNO bootloader, an ATmega16U2 as a UART-to-USB converter (basically work like an FTDI USB2UART chip). The board comes with an additional set of through-hole pads for all pins. These pads are aligned to 0.1" grid. This makes it easy to solder additional pin-headers to plug into breadboard or create your own attachment/shield with 0.1" dot-matrix general purpose PCBs.


You can program the board via a micro-USB cable. Also, you can power the board via a DC Jack input (7 to 15V DC) is acceptable. There is a switch to choose the system's supply voltage either 3.3V or 5V, which is very useful if you want to set the system to 3.3V to interact with low voltage sensors.


The images below show an overview of Seeeduino v4.2 hardware features. The pin-out and alternate functions of various pins of Seeeduino v4.2 are shown in the pin-out diagram. This could be used as a quick reference.


Please plug the USB cable gently, otherwise you may damage the interface.Please use the USB cable with 4 wires inside, the 2 wires cable can't transfer data. If you are not sure about the wire you have, you can click here to buy.


Select the serial device of the Arduino board from the Tools Serial Port menu. This is likely to be COM3 or higher (COM1 and COM2 are usually reserved for hardware serial ports). To find out, you can disconnect your Arduino board and re-open the menu; the entry that disappears should be the Arduino board. Reconnect the board and select that serial port.


Now, simply click the "Upload" button in the environment. Wait a few seconds - you should see the RX and TX LED indicators on the board flashing. If the upload is successful, the message "Done uploading."


A few seconds after the upload finishes, you should see the pin 13 (L) LED on the board start to blink (in orange). If it does, congratulations! You've gotten Arduino up-and-running. If you have problems, please see the troubleshooting suggestions.


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I am trying to get a clear understanding of the setup process and settings for PCNS and the NMC. I have exchanged emails with APC support on the VMware side and have been getting different answers. One to time I was informed to set up PCNS as standalone, another response said to set up PCNS to use vCenter, also was told the PNCS Prioritization is only supported to use the VM Prioritization option for ordering virtual machine shutdown and this does not mean that it will not work; only that it has not been tested and will not be supported.


We do not support installing PCNS on a Windows VM. The reasoning is PCNS does not recognize that it is a VM and therefore will be powered down along with the other VMs. If you want to install PCNS as a VM you should install the PCNS Appliance or install VMware vMA and install PCNS no that. The other option is to install PCNS on a stand alone server (none VM) and configure it to communicate with vCenter and the hosts.


"If vCenter Server is running on a VM, PowerChute waits until its host comes back online

before powering that VM on. PowerChute will then wait for vCenter Server to start before it

starts the rest of the VMs."


Yes. vCenter Server can run on a VM but PCNS cannot. When PCNS starts the shutdown process it first put the host into maintenance mode and then starts the VM shutdown. Since PCNS does not recognize that the system it is running on is a VM that Windows VM will be powered down before vCenter Sever and the hosts. If you install PCNS on the same Windows VM that vCenter Server is running on then it will be powered down just prior to the hosts so the hosts will not power down.


I misread the previous. I went through the PCNS Network Shutdown v4.2 install and on Page 58 see the steps to install on Windows. There is also steps to install the Virtual Appliance and on vMA, but I can't find any mention of where it states PCNS cannot be installed on a VM. When I see the section "VMware", that to me indicates VMs. Maybe a note should be added or clarification about PCNS not running on a VM.


Since we cannot add a physical server, use the virtual appliance, or use vMA, it appears I only have the option to install PCNS on the same Windows VM that vCenter Server is running so vCenter Server will be able to then be powered down prior to the ESXi server shutting down ?


Another question is about using the PCNS Virtual Machine Prioritization for shutting down VMs. We do not have a cluster and will be using the vCenter Server "Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown" order setting. The question I have, can we use the settings in the image below to suspend some VMs and than use the individual VM setting to have the "shutdown action" set to "Guest Shutdown"?


Please note that what you are suggesting is not supported. It should work to get the VMs shutdown however as I have written in the past the host will not be powered down. You will have to manually power down the host before the UPS runs out of battery life.


1.PowerChute reports that the UPS is on battery.

2.Shutdown delay for the On Battery event elapses. PowerChute starts a maintenance mode task on each Host. At the same time it sends a command to turn off the UPS or Outlet Group if configured to do so.

3.PowerChute starts VM shutdown followed by vApp shutdown.

4.VM/vApp shutdown durations elapse and PowerChute gracefully shutsdown the vCenterServer VM. At this point with your configuration PCNS will be powered down so the process stops.


2. Install PCNS on vCenter VM and it will shutdown the VMs including vCenter VM but not ESXi host (have to physically shut it down which is an issue if we lose power in the middle of the night or ona weekend)


I was referring to we cannot add another physical server or PC into the racked environment. However, there is talk about adding a physical lap top for maintenance that would run Windows 7 Enterprise. But, I am not sure it will be permitted to stay connected.


Virtual Machine Prioritization described starting on page 38 of the PCNS v4.2 VMware guide, looks to be the process similar to what the vCenter Client "Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown" offers (which we are using). Are you saying we should use PCNS Virtual Machine Prioritization and turn off/disable the vCenter Client "Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown" order process?


I have been giving this a lot of thought. As I have written many many times your configuration is NOT SUPPORTED! However, I may have a solution. This solution is also not official support by Schneider Electric technical support.


First, install PCNS 4.2 on a Windows VM. Do not install on the VM that is hosting vCenter. It should be its own VM and that VM needs to be running on the same host as the vCenter VM. Then configure VM prioritization in PCNS and prioritize all VMs except the VM PCNS is running on. Leave the PCNS VM as un-prioritized. Set the un-prioritized VM shutdown duration to zero. When the un-prioritized group is set to zero the shutdown will be skipped so the VM will not be powered down with the other VMs. On each of the hosts disable virtual machine start-up and shutdown with the exception of the host the the PCNS VM is running on. On that host set the PCNS Vm to be powered down and started up by the host.


What should happen is when PCNS start the shutdown process the VMs will be powered down. Then vCenter Server VM will be powered down. Then the hosts. When the final host is powering down it will tell the PCNS VM to power down and then UPS will power down.


The UPS will be commanded down when the VM shutdown process begins so you need to configure the low battery duration and if the UPS has switched outlet groups the outlet group power off delay to be 2 minutes greater than the amount of time needed to complete the total shutdown process.


As an example, the VMs have a total shutdown duration of 5 minutes, vCenter shutdown is 4 minutes, and the PCNS VM delay is 1 minute so the low battery duration and the outlet group power down delay needs to be 12 minutes.


As I said earlier this is not a supported configuration and I have not tested it but I'm fairly certain it will work. Note: You will need to adjust the delays based on the amount of time your systems need.


There are a few things that need to be corrected. First there is an issue with the localHostAddress that was saved in the ini file. Is the laptop using DHCP and if so has the IP address changed since PCNS was installed? You can correct the IP by stopping the PCNS service (from command prompt logged in a admin enter net stop pcns1. The go to C:\Program Files\APC\group1 (assuming the system is 64 bit and PCNS was installed to the default path). You can open the ini file with a text editor and enter the proper IP then restart PCNS. You should also log into the NMC and verify the proper IP address of the PCSN client has been added to the PowerChute Client list.


After correcting those things follow the instructions in FAQ FA230514 and put PCNS into debug mode. Run the shutdown test again. Once done let me know and I will create a BOX folder for you to drop the needed files. I will review them or one of our other reps will review them and post back what we found.


The v4.2 release introduces the config policies feature to CircleCI server. Use config policies to create organization-level policies to impose rules and scopes to govern which configuration elements are required, allowed, not allowed etc. For more information see the Config policies overview. To use config policies CLI commands with server, append all commands shown in the docs with --policy-base-url

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