[wplug] UPS with shutdown?

[Lance Tost]

>From the main page at the url mentioned:
Apcupsd works with most of APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple 
signalling models such a Back-UPS, and BackUPS-Office. 

And from clicking the "models and cables" link:
http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/configure.html#ConfigGeneral

FWIW, I believe NUT is aimed at being a more generic daemon that can talk 
to a wide variety of UPS's... this one seems to be APC-centric.

Using NUT with my Connext, I can detect "on battery", "on ac" and "battery 
low".  Some UPSs may not signal low battery (or the daemon may not be able 
to understand that signal).  So mine sends out a wall message when on 
battery then shuts the system down if the battery gets low.  As the system 
is shutting down, the upsd daemon sends a signal to the UPS to power 
itself off after a short delay so it won't run the battery completely 
dead.


On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Russ Schneider wrote:

> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:19:40 -0400
> From: Russ Schneider <russpgh at stargate.net>
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] UPS with shutdown?
> 
> Bryce Lynch wrote:
> 
> > Yes, we had several of them at the last place I worked.  We used APCUPSD
> > (http://www2.apcupsd.com/) to handle shutdowns after a certain period of
> > time.  
> 
> Now when I go look for a UPS, what do I look for to see if it will work 
> with apcupsd?
> 
> (Sorry if I sound totally clueless about this.)
> 
> 
> 

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