Automate Graceful Shutdown & Wake on LAN for Proxmox with RPi (APC)

by Jan Bachelor
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Do you have a APC UPS at home and would you like to automate a graceful shutdown process for your Proxmox hosts? Then dive right into this guide that will also tackle monitoring with Uptime Kuma, Wake on LAN and the idea of storing your scripts on your local Gitea instance. What more can you desire?

1. Automated Proxmox UPS Shutdown Process – Goals & Installation 2. Configure apcupsd, SSH keys and SMTP 3. Prepare a Script of Scripts for automated shutdown of Proxmox hosts 4. Prepare onbaterry and offbatery APC scripts 5. Bonus: Add UPS monitoring to Uptime Kuma 6. Run a UPS drain test! 7. Add Wake-on-LAN to automatically wake up your hosts! 8. GitOps – manage your shutdown scripts with Gitea