From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 15:33:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B10637B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:33:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887F643E65 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:33:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g9MMW1C79783; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:32:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20021022173201.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:32:01 -0500 To: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" , "Marko Cuk" , From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: Choosing UPS for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <055a01c27a16$5b314520$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <3.0.5.32.20021022110727.014efb90@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:59 PM 10.22.2002 -0500, DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people' wrote: >From: "Jack L. Stone" >To: "Marko Cuk" ; >Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:07 AM >Subject: Re: Choosing UPS for FreeBSD > > >> At 05:44 PM 10.22.2002 +0200, Marko Cuk wrote: >> >Which UPS do you recomend and wich has the best support for >FreeBSD ? >> > >> >I'd like to have UPS connected to network and SNMP / WEB >monitoring, etc... >> > >> >Cuk >> > >> > >> I have been using apcupsd from the ports for a long time and works >for me >> on all FBSD and Windows boxen. Others swear by NUT. It's a matter >of >> preference I guess. Both are similar in function I believe. >> >> Best regards, >> Jack L. Stone, >> Administrator >> >And what UPS hardware? Or do these programs support "all" ;-) ? > >KDK > "support" is not that simple to answer since there are SmartUPS and dumb UPS and depends on what you want to spend/configure. apcupsd supports the popular brands and I usually go with APC SmartUPS which can communicate over the cables. The "dumb" UPS are very limited and the cables are pretty useless. When I first looked and evaluated, I went to the ports and there within the ports in the info files you will usually find the website URLs to go to. There is a tremendous amount of docs explaining everything at the sites. I know apcups is this way and I suspect NUT is too..... Just don't expect too much out of the dumb UPS units and if you have the budget, go with APC SmartPRO or SmartUPS.... the configuring will be easier.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message