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. -- Galen Seitz Seitz & Associates gal...@seitzassoc.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
