UPS / notifications

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:07 -0500, C M Reinehr wrote:
> 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. :-)

We have been using Riello. Yes they are Italian. No, one generally does
not think of Italians in this context. But we have been using these in
demanding mobile environments and they have really held up. Nice 19"
racks models. They deserve a look.
 

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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