UPS comments

[Karl Pearson]

On Tue, March 27, 2007 5:56 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:02 -0700, Bret Stern wrote:
>> I am thinking of adding a UPS (APC Back-UPS Pro 650) to one
>> of my servers because i'm bored.
>>
>> Is the apcupsd daemon the common solution for monitoring the UPS,
>> or is there a canned rpm with Fedora 6 which will handle a simple
>> controlled shutdown?
>
> "nut" (network UPS tools) has a bunch of stuff.  Have a looksee at the
> NUT home page:
>
> 	http://www.networkupstools.org/
>
> And you can install the RPMs via:
>
> 	yum install nut
> 	yum install nut-client

Or you can consider a Belkin UPS. I got one for my desktop at work and it
comes with a Linux monitoring tool. I've not set it up for shutdown as this
one keeps the system up for several hours (I over-bought). I'll have to look
at that issue.

And I'll see about NUT, too.

Karl


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