FreeBSD and UPS's
I was just curious if FreeBSD supports any of the UPS's that have the automated powerdown feature in the event of powerloss (APM)? Michael A. Alestock, - Computer Systems Support/UNIX Support Specialist (Geek) - Information Systems Dept, Lawrence General Hospital, Lawrence, Mass. 01843 - PGPKey: http://www.maa-net.net/~michaela/pgpkey.asc - ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD and UPS's
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 26, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Michael A. Alestock wrote: I was just curious if FreeBSD supports any of the UPS's that have the automated powerdown feature in the event of powerloss (APM)? Look at sysutils/nut and sysutils/apcupsd I have 2 Matrix 5000's connected to a 4.8 machine, and it works fine with nut. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bob.bomar.us - --- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBfrkE9Jm/aTrtdKoRAuh1AJ96ZDoDEMu4ZfJOtbgpKQNeL8SCgACeJU54 RhzNr5AsYJj7t0LYGf0jIRA= =WrhF -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD and UPS's
Bob Bomar writes: > Look at sysutils/nut and sysutils/apcupsd If you're looking at apcupsd, you will probably want to join the mailing list. There have been huge FreeBSD-related developments in the last 2-3 months (including the ability to use USB UPSs) that are not part of the main code base and therefore not in the port. Robert Huff (currently testing the experimental branch with his BackUPS RS) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD and UPS's
Michael, On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 you wrote: > I was just curious if FreeBSD supports any of the UPS's that have the > automated powerdown feature in the event of powerloss (APM)? I'm using apcupsd with an APC Back-UPS Pro 650 under FreeBSD 4.10. It works great, including automatic powerdown. There are some configuration issues with FreeBSD, which I quote: In the FreeBSD OS, there is no known way for a user program to get control when all the disks are synced. This is needed for apcupsd to be able to issue the killpower command to the UPS so that the UPS shuts off the power. To accomplish the same thing on FreeBSD systems, make sure you have a SmartUPS and that your UPS shutdown grace period is set sufficiently long so that you system will power down (usually 2 minutes), then use the kill-on-powerfail option on the apcupsd command line. You use the command `apctest' to set the UPS shutdown grace period in the UPS's EEPROM. It was straightforward. For smart UPS's with USB connections, I recall seeing some problems reports on the apcupsd email list regarding FreeBSD. However, my UPS uses a serial connection, so I didn't pay much attention. Sandy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
