Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:21:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com>, proot@horton.iaces.com Cc: dbaker@neosoft.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Smart UPS -- any experts out there? Message-ID: <XFMail.970827094129.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970826165136.conrads@neosoft.com>
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I'm running a SmartUPS from APS with UPSd (see below) for FreeBSD. Aside from some annoying console messages that I haven't taken the time to redirect, it works fine. (Paul Root was working on this, back in March (see List Archives) but I don't know if he solved it.) We bought a 1400W model to handle a fax server (Pentium 200, 128 M RAM 5 Gig HD, full tower). With running the cpu, the monitor, a Cyclades Multiport Serial Card, 8 external modems, and a printer, we are coming in at around 14-18% load. So 1400 is overkill (until we have a power failure). It handles shutdowns in the event it runs out of battery power. It also monitors several variables about the UPS itself. Load, battery status, etc. One of the interesting things you can do with it (someone else mentioned it a couple of weeks ago) is to monitor room temperature. The UPS keeps track of temp and sends it to the daemon. So, for example, I know they shut off the Air Conditioning at 9:05PM on Fridays and it comes back on at 6:22AM on Mondays. It was even sensitive enough that I could tell that the cleaning crew came in at 11:07PM on Friday. :) Patrick UPSd can be gotten from: ftp://ftp.ww.net/pub/wildwind/upsd/ it's in xperiment on the CD On 26-Aug-97 Conrad Sabatier wrote: >I'm seriously considering buying a UPS, as the power in my area seems to be >prone to occasional "blinks" of a second or two. Someone mentioned getting >a "smart" UPS that I could interface to FreeBSD to, for instance, perform >an automatic clean shutdown on power failure. > >Any advice, opinions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > >(Cc: to one of my ISP's admins who's been trying to get his UPS to work >with FreeBSD, too) > >-- >Conrad Sabatier | FreeBSD -- UNIX for your PC > | Why settle for less than the best? >http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/ | http://www.freebsd.org ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> Date: 27-Aug-97 Time: 09:21:43 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
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