[mythtv-users] OT: UPS w/ Linux monitoring/auto shutdown software?

[Harondel J. Sibble]

On 20 Aug 2003 at 12:57, Jeff Williams wrote:

> would imagine it can't be good for a Myth box to be suddenly kicked off in the
> middle of a recording.  

no worse that any other bad shutdown in my experience.

> Are there any UPS manufacturers that support Linux with their software?  I

All the major manufacturers support linux directly, MGE, APC, PowerWare, 
BestPower, Liebert (java), etc etc. IIRC with the exception of Liebert, all 
of the companies I've mentioned have supported linux for at least 3 or 4 
years.  I currently have 4 APC upses spread throughout the office running 
APC's linux software, also have a few clients setup similarly.

Now with that said, for most smart upses, you don't even need their software, 
UPSD which ships with most distros will work with most standard, serial port 
smart upses out of the box.


> would assume there have to be, with all the corporate Linux customers out
> there - but I don't want to spend a fortune either, only looking for 4-5
> minutes of backup time (just enough to shut down in an orderly fashion). 

There's a website that specifcally covers upses under linux, can't give you 
the link as I have no net access at the moment due to probs with dsl provider 
<sigh>, of course this happens while I am at a client's site and need to 
setup the dsl and vpn for the new webserver we just put in.

> Failing that, is there such a thing as a freeware UPS monitoring application
> that will work with various manufacturers' UPS's?  As you can see, I'm pretty
> new to the whole UPS thing - never owned one before

Yup as mentioned above, do a search for upsd.
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