On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, John Wiltshire generated:
>any other box on the UPS which needs it. I'm assuming the same would work
>for Linux although it would probably be a lot easier to set up (given the
>relative difficulty of scripting on NT compared to Linux.
Yeah, very f'n easy. genpowerd is the
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, George Vieira generated:
>APC Smart-UPS 700va
We got an APC SmartUPS 650 on our servers, you can get an 'NT monitoring
cable' from Harris Tech and use it with... oh i forget which
ups-monitoring software, but the cable works with it. note: ups cables
aren't plain serial cab
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:21:03AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > You can of course write your own, monitor the state of the handshake lines
> > coming in from the UPS and make a decision as to what to do when they change
> > state.
>
>
> That was where I was headed. :)
>
> How Free Software-fri
From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>Query (given that I've only ever used Dumb-UPS):
>
>What tells what what's happening and how?
>
>(ie. Okay, so you've got your serial cable keeping them talking, and I
>assume there's a daemon running in the background waiting for cries of
>"Wolf!" fr
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> Jill Rowling wrote:
>
> You can of course write your own, monitor the state of the handshake li
> Jill Rowling wrote:
>
> You can of course write your own, monitor the state of the handshake lines
> coming in from the UPS and make a decision as to what to do when they change
> state.
That was where I was headed. :)
How Free Software-friendly are the various UPS manufacturers?
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What tells what what's happening and how?
(ie. Okay, so you've got your serial ca
> John Wiltshire wrote:
>
> Our Smart-UPS is connected to an NT box (via serial cable) which runs a
> stack of scripts when it gets the "shutdown" message to cleanly shut down
> any other box on the UPS which needs it. I'm assuming the same would work
> for Linux although it would probably be a
From: George Vieira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>Great thanks, that's the kind of info I'm looking for.
>
>I was also thing about one big UPS connected to the Linux box
>(notice the
>CAPITAL for respect) which will remotely notify the other servers to
>shutdown if needed.
>I've seen info on that
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George Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> UPS-Sonic http://www.apc.com/products/techspecs/index.cfm?base_sku=BK650MI
> or
> APC Smart-UPS 700va
I've never got the hang of the different APC models, eg.
the black boxed ones vs the cream boxed ones.
If you find out, I'd like to know.
I like the Sola one
George,
We are using APC Smart-UPS here (3000va), though not using Linux as the
controlling machine (no reason for that, just the way it is). Works well
and powers a good two full 19" racks for over half an hour. It's kinda
freaky doing the occasional test and pulling the power cord from the ra
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