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Re: apc or tripplite or something else
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Phil Perry <[log in to unmask]>
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Phil Perry <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:39:39 +0000
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On 12/11/10 23:31, Bluejay Adametz wrote:
>> Is APC (or some other make) preferred over tripplite as a linux friendly
>> ups?  Is everyone using nut or are the vendor supplied software good enough?
>
> I've got a couple of SL 5.0-with-recent-updates machines with
> late-model APC UPSs connected via USB, and the UPS parameters/status
> do show up in dbus. I haven't seen any comprehensive software to
> monitor these UPSs, but then I haven't looked real hard either.
>

I've always used "apcupsd" to control my APC UPS, available from Dag's 
rpmforge repo. There's even some cgi scripts so you can monitor UPS 
status over http.

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