UPS / notifications

[Tony Alfrey]

C M Reinehr wrote:
> 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).

But IMHO these are very good UPS so if you're starting from scratch, 
this is a good way to go.




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