Many years ago, I bought an APC UPS that still works to this day (though in a different role than it was originally intended for). When I bought it, I ended up making a serial cable to connect it to my linux box, because I was unwilling to pay APC $35-40 bucks for a simple serial cable. Since then, I've switched out the UPS attached to my linux box, but the same cable has continued to provide me with timed auto-shutdown at the least. I've always used apcupsd to provide this functionality, mostly because I've never needed anything more complicated, so I can't confirm whether my homemade cable would support some of the smarter features that UPSs sport today.
I can also tell you that using USB under linux, at least for any APC UPSs, is probably a no go. If someone has evidence to the contrary, I'd love to hear it, but even APC's own power management software doesn't support USB under linux. On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Analabha Roy wrote:
Hi, It's been raining in Austin and my power fluctuates whenever there's thunder nearby, so need a good UPS that works in linux. I'm running Fedora Core 3. I looked at the network UPS tools website and their 'compatibility list' ( http://random.networkupstools.org/compat/stable.html ). The thing is that the list is somewhat vague on the details of what works fully and what doesn't. I looked further at the features list (http://www.vamos-wentworth.org/upsinfo.html) and it seems that this chap can't seem to get the 'auto-powerdown' feature to work on any of the UPS-es except for the ones that are hideously expensive. I'm basically looking for some anecdotal feedback as to whether anyone has managed to get any (serial or USB) UPS to work with their Linux machines (using N.U.T or any other software) with auto-timed-powerdown at least. Please let me know if any of you guys have succeeded in doing this. Thanks for your attention. Regards, AR _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [email protected] http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
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