UPS / notifications

[C M Reinehr]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 08:13, Vu Pham wrote:
> I am looking for information about sending notification when the power
> is down:
> - what kind of ups / method you use ?
> - how do we monitor the UPSes : serial , usb ?
> - and *important* : the monitoring app must run on Linux.
>
> Maybe there are some other issues I need to know, but never have I done
> this, so I need your advice.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vu

Vu,

I use a program called apcupsd (http://www.apcupsd.org/). It is quite 
comprehensive but only works with APC UPS's (I think).

Cheers!

cmr

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