Patent ID: 7275169

Claim:
A method of controlling a time relative to a trigger event at which a process executing on equipment powered through an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) shuts down, the method comprising: providing a graphical display system and a graphical pointing device; displaying on the graphical display system a graph having a time axis defining times relative to the trigger event, and a process axis; arraying along the process axis indicia of one or more processes which may be executing on the equipment powered through the UPS, and which are to be shut down; for at least one process of the one or more processes, displaying a time bar extending from a start point along the time axis to an end point along the time axis; setting the start point to a position representing a start time value with the pointing device; providing the start time value as a set-point output; receiving the set-point; and controlling the time relative to the trigger event at which shut down of the at least one process begins shut down, responsive to the received set-point.