From APCs Knowledge Base #7202
Problem Summary
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.
Actually, Its much worse than that. After 4 hrs. of trouble shooting, I finally identified the APC service as the reason many of my services had failed to start on bootup.
It seems that not only does the APC service hang during startup but every service that starts after it, also hangs during startup. Additionally, the service manager mmc becomes inoperable. It will display the services and allow you to open the properties box, but if you try to make a change, that setting a service to manual, it locks up. Also I was unable to stop or start any service. I had to reboot in safe mode to trouble shoot, placing all non-OS services in manual mode, rebooting and testing until I narrowed it down to the APC service. I did not find about the problem until I searched the APC base after the fact.
Needless to say, I?m pretty upset about the whole thing. I?m not big Java fan to begin with, due to past experiences with JVM incompatibilities and broken apps. But to have a perfectly good, stable application suddenly become inop and cause some of my line of business apps become unavailable is unacceptable. Say what you want, Java Sucks! I?m pretty upset with APC for not adequately testing their software and recognizing that could cause an issue with more than just not providing a graceful shutdown.
