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.