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Date:      Mon, 01 Oct 2001 08:43:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        "Gelu G. Lupas" <gelu@personal.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Which APC UPS to buy?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011001084315.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <200109281936.f8SJaoK27556@zerg.codec.ro>

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APC SMART-UPS works with upsmond from ports:

 ps ax|grep ups
  371  ??  Is     0:02.88 /usr/local/sbin/upsmond -p /dev/cuaa1 -r 20
16164  p0  S+     0:00.01 grep ups
vanheden> upsstat

        UPSMON Status Reporting Facility
        ---  upsmond version 2.1.3  ---

             APC UPS 700 Status Info
--------------------------------------------------------
                     Model: SMART-UPS 700
                 CopyRight: (C) APCC
          Manufacture date: 12/18/99
                  Serial #: NS9951331687
          Firmware version: 50.11.I
                  Local ID: UPS_IDEN
 Last battery replace date: 12/18/99
      Nominal line voltage: 230 V
   Nominal battery voltage: 24 V
                 Available: YES
                   Standby: NO
                Line Power: OK
                   Battery: OK
              Line Voltage: 239.20
                      Load:  23.40 %
           Battery Voltage:  27.60
             Battery Level: 100.00 %
--------------------------------------------------------

On 28-Sep-2001 Gelu G. Lupas wrote:
> I am in the process of buying an APC UPS for my FreeBSD box, switch and radio
> bridge. My otions are Back-UPS and SmartUPS (around 500 VA). I just need
> unattnded
> shutdown of my FreeBSD box when the UPS has consumed most of the battery power
> and only has enough power left for the next 5 minutes or so. No bells and
> whistles needed (ie: monitoring events), just efficient and failure-proof
> shutdown with one of the daemons available in the ports tree. In other words,
> I
> just want maximum reliability with minimum costs ;P. The question is: which
> UPS
> to buy?
> 
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