Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 18:25:10 -0700 From: "Donald Fast" <djfast@telus.net> To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: APC Back-UPS Pro Message-ID: <000101bfd27a$b7f6a160$9232e8d8@bc.hsia.telus.net> In-Reply-To: <002b01bfd252$586b4700$b8209fc0@campbellmithun.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Shawn Barnhart > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 1:36 PM > To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: APC Back-UPS Pro > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> > > | The problem with this is doing it securely. You can have one monitor > | machine but having some automated way of telling the others to shutdown > | that can't be tricked is a tough problem. ssh with a null-passphrase RSA > | key is about as close as you can get, but that doesn't keep root on one > | machine from telling the others to shutdown, but that may not be a problem > | in your environment :) > > Does any of the UPS stuff on FreeBSD do it securely? > > It seems like it would be safer for a client machine to poll the > UPS-monitoring server for power status vs. having the monitoring server > alert its clients to do something like shut down. > > On the more sophisticated end you could do it as an SNMP trap, or you could > just write the UPS status to a file on the monitoring box and the clients > could fetch the status periodically and make their own decisions about what > to do when the power went off. > or you could get the multi-computer option http://www.apcc.com/products/management/shareups_smartslot_spec.cfm and then each machine can decide on its onw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?000101bfd27a$b7f6a160$9232e8d8>