Depending on the UPS itself and what you want, Cyberpower brand does provide commandline apps to get basic status and manage shutdowns of host computers under Linux, though I haven't tried them myself.

--
James Pulver
Information Technology Area Supervisor
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University


-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Peatfield
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 9:30 PM
To: Ken Teh
Cc: scientific-linux-users
Subject: Re: apc or tripplite or something else

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Ken Teh 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 have only used tripplite and nut and it has been less than satisfactory. 
> It's always a struggle to put one together.

I've been happy enough with nut monitoring APCs (over serial and USB), 
though at least when we started using nut there were no sl packages so we 
built our own based on Fedora srpms...  which was much less hassle than 
getting it to build on Solaris-8 :-)

  -- Jon