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PCNS 3.0.0 ESXi 4.1 U1 shutdownhost.pl error

Scenario:

APC UPS with a NIC.

ESXi 4.1 U1 installed on a HP server. License is vSphere Essentials Kit.

vMA 4.1 installed on the ESXi host.

APC PowerChute Network Shutdown installed on vMA, following these instructions, starting on p.6 bottom.
This was all set up ~1mo. ago with latest available software.

We tested this setup by simulating a power outage. ESXi did not shut down gracefully, it just lost power, as if it never received the shutdown command from PCNS.

I learned from this page that you can trigger the shutdown command by executing the shutdown script manually. I get errors when I execute it:

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There are 3 files in that directory: notifier, shutdown, and shutdown.pl. Is my syntax correct? Am I executing the right file?

I edited the 'shutdown' file -- (the PCNS instructions don't include this):

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I have triple-checked all APC NIC and PCNS settings, they all seem correct. Why is the perl script erroring out?

If you need any more info on the environment let me know. Thank you.

Crossposted to APC Forums here: http://www.apc-forums.com/thread.jspa?threadID=6646

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