System Administrator wrote: > On 30 Mar 2007 at 10:21, Aaron Poffenberger wrote: > > >> I was recently running apcupsd without problem. Nevertheless I >> swtiched, recently, to nut [1] because it's so much better. It has >> excellent APC monitoring. If your APC is Smart or a Backups Pro model, >> it can control all the exposed functions. Even cooler, it's called nut >> because it's the "Network UPS Tools" kit. If you have more than one >> system plugged into the same UPS, the system monitoring the UPS can let >> other systems know they should shutdown so everything goes down cleanly. >> Lastly, it has a nice scheduler that send you alerts when the UPS has >> been on battery power for some n period of time and let you know when >> it's back on the mains. >> >> Use nut. You'll be happy you did. >> >> Aaron >> > > Actually your information is inacurate and unfairly biased. > Inaccurate -- quite possibly. Biased -- not. I have no particular interest or association with either project. I offered my opinion after running both straight from the ports tree. The tag on apc-upsd in ports (apc-upsd-19991128) certainly implies its very old. So it's quite possible the OP meant a newer version. I'll offer this clarification -- the version of nut in the 4.0 ports tree SMOKES the apc-upsd-19991128 port in the same. See reasons above. ;-) > Both NUT and APCUPSd have very similar capabilities for shared UPSes > and notifying other servers, as well as reporting, graphing, etc. In > fact, they share a lot of code (pls review the changelogs) and even the > comm protocol is similar although by default it runs on different > ports. > > The major difference has to do with their development cycles, goals and > sponsorship. Namely, APCUPSd is totally independent development of UPS > management code for only one brand of UPS (APC) and with frequent > releases. In the last 3 years NUT has not been properly updated; its > original goal was to support as many UPS brands as possible; and in > recent years it has been "sponsored" by MGE. (I believe that includes > full-time employment for the primary developer.) Now, an interesting > recent development may change this analysis completely -- the fact that > APC has been acquired by MGE, but only time will tell the story... > > >> [1] Found in ports. Online documentation at >> <http://www.networkupstools.org/compat/>. >> >> Thierry Lacoste wrote: >> >>> I'd like to know if it is safe to run apcupsd-3.14.0. >>> There are some issues regarding pthreads on OpenBSD >>> raised in the apcupsd-3.12.x user's guide but these issues >>> are not mentioned anymore in the apcupsd-3.14.x user's guide. >>> >>> Is it better to use apc-upsd from ports? >>> It seems to be a bit old and I could not find any documentation >>> on how to configure and use it. >>> >>> Any recommandations would be much appreciated. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Thierry. >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------- > System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bitwise Internet Technologies, Inc. > 22 Drydock Avenue tel: (617) 737-1837 > Boston, MA 02210 fax: (617) 439-4941 > > Cheers,
Aaron
