UPS / notifications

[C M Reinehr]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 09:24, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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.

No argument there. APC is all I've ever used. :-)

cmr
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