[PLUG] UPS Advice needed

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Tue Mar 17 17:57:40 UTC 2009


chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
> we have a honking APC ups here at the office, like, fridge-sized, and
> the free software that exists for linux (apcupsd) is pretty flaky.  so
> much so that i have it running, but not doing anything except logging.
>  because it logs transient connection-to-the-ups failures constantly,
> which would normally shut the machine running the software down.  so
> instead i monitor *that* software for an outage longer than 5 minutes
> and do some automated sshing around shutting things down.  total
> kludge, but i gave up on apcupsd after a day or so trying to get it to
> work right.  so i can't recommend the APC free software.  maybe others
> have had better luck with it.  the commercial "powerchute" stuff
> seemed to work better last time i used it.  dunno if it's available
> for linux or if it comes free with consumer-level ups's though.

Interesting.  I have a Back-UPS XS 1300.  I'm using the 
apcupsd(3.14.0-3.el5) that is part of CentOS 5.2, and it 'just works'. 
  All I had to do was connect the USB cable.

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Galen Seitz
Seitz & Associates
galens at seitzassoc.com



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