From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 25 01:21:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13880 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 01:21:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA13869 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 01:21:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA66706; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:20:52 GMT Message-ID: <365BCBF4.9C65AC15@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:20:52 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" CC: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Back-UPS software References: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD9B7@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is kind of off topic, but here goes... ;-) "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" wrote: > > I've looked around for upsd type software. The only two > solutions I've seen up to now are upsd for SmartUPS > and bkpupsd for Back-UPS PRO (and PRO only). > > I need to be able to gracefully shut down my FreeBSD > box if the power goes down (that's it, that's all, no need > to send anything in the network to shut anything else > off). According to the info for bkpupsd, it only supports > it in dumb mode, with none of the advanced features. > Can anyone tell me what that means exactly AFAIK - it means the UPS (and bkupsd) will deal with 'help, mains has failed' - and 'I'm running out of batteries - shutdown' and 'Mains is back' type messages... What it won't do is tell you all the gory details like the max/min voltages seen in the last 5 minutes, what the line frequency is (e.g. 60Hz) etc. - but you will need to check this by findind some documentation / contacts for bkupsd... > [snip] > And what about the lower-end Back-UPS? > Is there a big difference on the way they work (after > all they do come with the serial cable...) I was > looking at the Back-UPS 500 as a solution. I think most the BackUPS are the same - except as they get bigger they last longer, and you may find some have use-replaceable batteries, or facilities for adding more batteries to the system to get longer life etc... The APC site (www.apcc.com) will have more details, Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message