Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-24 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-01-24 at 10:36 -0800, Marc Chamberlin wrote: Thanks everyone for all your input, seems I stirred up a lot of tangential thoughts... Not sure I have gotten an answer yet to my question on whether this Cyberpower CP1350AVRLCD UPS

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-24 Thread Sandy Drobic
Marc Chamberlin wrote: Thanks everyone for all your input, seems I stirred up a lot of tangential thoughts... Not sure I have gotten an answer yet to my question on whether this Cyberpower CP1350AVRLCD UPS will work ok under Linux and safely shutdown SuSE computers should the power get cut off,

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-24 Thread Marc Chamberlin
Thanks everyone for all your input, seems I stirred up a lot of tangential thoughts... Not sure I have gotten an answer yet to my question on whether this Cyberpower CP1350AVRLCD UPS will work ok under Linux and safely shutdown SuSE computers should the power get cut off, sounds like it is a ma

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-24 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-01-23 at 09:07 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > What a putz. > > Just enough information to...make you wish you had the > information you actually need. Worthless :-( > > What is NECESSARY is what the UPS send out on the ser

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Koenraad Lelong wrote: Aaron Kulkis schreef: Marc Chamberlin wrote: I have been looking at UPS to support some of my SuSE computers and am interested in one from CyberPower. I wrote them asking if theirs would run under SuSE Linux and got the following (somewhat unintelligible geek speak) and

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-01-22 at 22:04 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: ... What a putz. Just enough information to...make you wish you had the information you actually need. Worthless :-( What is NECESSARY is what the UPS send out on

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Koenraad Lelong
Dave Howorth schreef: Sandy Drobic wrote: In our company the ups is a bit bigger and includes a snmp card, so all servers can query the ups directly and decide depending on their local configuration if they should shut down or not. I'd second everything Sandy said and add that it's not essenti

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Dave Howorth
Sandy Drobic wrote: > In our company the ups is a bit bigger and includes a snmp card, so all > servers can query the ups directly and decide depending on their local > configuration if they should shut down or not. I'd second everything Sandy said and add that it's not essential to have an snmp c

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Sandy Drobic
Koenraad Lelong wrote: Aaron Kulkis schreef: Marc Chamberlin wrote: I have been looking at UPS to support some of my SuSE computers and am interested in one from CyberPower. I wrote them asking if theirs would run under SuSE Linux and got the following (somewhat unintelligible geek speak) and

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Dave Howorth
Koenraad Lelong wrote: > Aaron Kulkis schreef: >> I use APC, because the explicitly support Linux, even >> providing the Linux version of their powerchute program >> on their website. >> > ... > Right now I'm considering a new UPS. I used MGE (a sponsor of NUT), but > they seem to be taken over by

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-01-23 at 11:14 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: ... The usb method is the way of things to be, and besides, can give you more info, like current AC voltage, state of the battery, remaining on battery time (s

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Koenraad Lelong
Aaron Kulkis schreef: Marc Chamberlin wrote: I have been looking at UPS to support some of my SuSE computers and am interested in one from CyberPower. I wrote them asking if theirs would run under SuSE Linux and got the following (somewhat unintelligible geek speak) and wonder if someone on th

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Sandy Drobic
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2008-01-22 at 22:04 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: ... What a putz. Just enough information to...make you wish you had the information you actually need. Worthless :-( What is NECESSARY is what the UPS send out on the serial line to indicate that line powe

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-01-22 at 22:04 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: ... What a putz. Just enough information to...make you wish you had the information you actually need. Worthless :-( What is NECESSARY is what the UPS send out on the serial line to i

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-23 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Marc Chamberlin wrote: I have been looking at UPS to support some of my SuSE computers and am interested in one from CyberPower. I wrote them asking if theirs would run under SuSE Linux and got the following (somewhat unintelligible geek speak) and wonder if someone on this group can translate

Re: [opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
Marc Chamberlin wrote: > I have been looking at UPS to support some of my SuSE computers and am > interested in one from CyberPower. I wrote them asking if theirs would > run under SuSE Linux and got the following (somewhat unintelligible geek > speak) and wonder if someone on this group can transl

[opensuse] Question on Uninteruptable Power Supplies

2008-01-22 Thread Marc Chamberlin
I have been looking at UPS to support some of my SuSE computers and am interested in one from CyberPower. I wrote them asking if theirs would run under SuSE Linux and got the following (somewhat unintelligible geek speak) and wonder if someone on this group can translate it for me.. ;-) Does a