HP D2700 - remote shutdown when power failure occurs?

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Had an issue today - power went down, didn't come back on so the servers shut themselves down. Problem is, the array on my D2700 was in the middle of a transformation after I added another pair of discs. Follow on problem was the D2700 didn't shut down until the batteries were exhausted.

Now power is back up, let the UPS charge for a while, then fired things up - and found the array had thrown 2 disks (fortunately both from the same side of the array so it was just degraded not totally failed). Removed and re-inserted and the controller is happily rebuilding the two disks.

But how can I avoid this remote but actual event - graceful shut down of the server obviously wasn't enough - how do I do a graceful shut down of the disk shelf?
 
Distinctly possible - I do remain to be fully convinced though.

But is there a way of gracefully shutting the thing down? Even if it didn't cause the disks to be rejected, it was a waste of battery.
 
Oh it would definitely have to shut down after the server that hangs off it.

So my only option is to use a UPS with seperately switchable outlet groups? Shut the server down, then shut the group off that the shelf is on. I think one of my UPSs can do that, but predictably, not the one the shelf is on...
 
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