Re: UPS support

[Ben Walker <walker mza com>]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, John Summerfield wrote:

> 
> These days UPS has become cheap enough that even private folk can consider 
> buying one.
> 
> I have RHL 7.0 (4 ISOs) here (but not yet installed), but I don't see anything 
> there that looks like it might provide support for a UPS.
> 
> Is there something that does? And while we're talking about it, 
> what(moderately cheap) UPSs work well with Linux? Do I need something like 
> powerd?

I would recommend APC UPS's.  They have a wide range of UPS's, and have
free Power Chute GUI software RPM's that allow you to configure and control
the UPS.  I would get at least a BackUPS or better model, that has a serial
interface.  If you buy APC, you don't have to mess with powerd.  There
is also a package called nut in 7.0, that I not familiar with, that is
supposed to allow you to monitor UPS's.  APC's website is www.apcc.com.