Re: Freebsd vs. UPS

2000-10-02 Thread Grigory Kljuchnikov
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, David Gilbert wrote: I've got a few of the Powerware... both RackMount and regular. I've found them to be dependable and cost effective. They come with software for Linux that I havn't been able to get running. I've got a Powerware 5105 and have tried to install

Re: [stable] Re: Freebsd vs. UPS

2000-09-29 Thread Chad R. Larson
I own a couple of the PowerWare Prestige 1500VA units with extra external battery packs, and have some documentation. Running a FreeBSD system, a Windows98 box, my cable modem and NAT/Firewall gets me about an hour of keep-alive. The serial port on the back can be kicked into several different

[stable] Re: Freebsd vs. UPS

2000-09-27 Thread David Gilbert
"Matt" == Matt Heckaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matt I have to agree with you totally. We have a Powerware 5119RM Matt here and as far as Price:BackupTime goes, it beats APC hands Matt down. I'm also very happy with it's quality. I have not found Matt software to talk to it yet, but we still

Re: Freebsd vs. UPS

2000-09-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000925 11:34] wrote: I need to get some protection for our servers and I need to know if FreeBSD supports the almighty APC UPS (shutting the servers down in the worst case and rebooting them when power is back, is enough...) with some port. I also

Re[2]: Freebsd vs. UPS

2000-09-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Alfred, Monday, September 25, 2000, 8:45:31 PM, you wrote: Check ports, there should be some stuff to talk to APC power supplies. There are some ports: bkpupsd upsd upsmon you could probably jury rig it so that several servers talking over the network could be informed from the main

Re: Freebsd vs. UPS

2000-09-25 Thread Igor Roboul
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:34:17PM -0700, Mike Murphree wrote: This topic is somewhat timely since I lost power to my machine this weekend. A loud BEEP wouldn't have done any good as I was away from it too long at the time. A low power suspend mode triggered by the UPS to extend its run time