UPS / notifications

[James McDonald]

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.
>
>   
APC UPS's have a daemon that runs on linux... I haven't used it though...