The launch script calls another script that sleeps for a minute then initiates the shutdown of the ESXi. This is done with the '&' so it's in the background. At the same time the launch script calls a script that shuts down all the VMs (I'm hoping a minute is more then enough to shut down the VMs). The only thing that seemed to work for me in this script was the shutting down of all the VMs except for the VIMA, then a sleep of 10seconds, then shutdown of VIMA.

VMID=$(/usr/bin/vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep -v Vmid | awk '{print $1}')

VIMAID=$(/usr/bin/vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep VIMA | awk '{print $1}')

echo "VIMA found id: $VIMAID"

for j in $VMID
do

  echo "${j}" | grep -v -- "^-\?[0-9]\+$" > /dev/null >&1
  if 
  then
	echo "Invalid Entry: $j"
  else
	echo "Examining: $j"

	STATE=$(/usr/bin/vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate $j | tail -1 | awk '{print $2}')

	echo "j=$j"
	echo "VIMAID=$VIMAID"

  	if [ $j -ne $VIMAID ]
	then
		echo "Machine $i state: $STATE"
		
		if [ $STATE == on ]
		then
			echo "Shutting down: $j"

			/usr/bin/vim-cmd vmsvc/power.shutdown $j
		fi
	fi
  fi

done

echo "Sleeping 10 seconds before shutting down VIMA."

sleep 10

echo "Shutting down VIMA: $VIMAID"

/usr/bin/vim-cmd vmsvc/power.shutdown $VIMAID

doshutdown)
echo "UPS ${2} initiated Shutdown Sequence" | ${WALL}
ssh -i /home/vi-admin/.ssh/id_rsa root@192.168.0.2 "/ups_shutdown_launcher.sh" &
;;

Bigger problem is that the ssh command seems to be ignored when apcupsd gets the shutdown signal, and fine when I enter it manually in a console...

Any idea why?