[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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