Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:08:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Patrick O'Reilly <patrick@mip.co.za>, questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: APC backup -UPS howto install. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111151307560.26038-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <15347.48418.851272.476472@guru.mired.org>
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Patrick O'Reilly <patrick@mip.co.za> types: > > If I may piggy-back on this thread :) > > > > I need to run UPS daemons on more than one box, but the UPS is connected by > > serial cable to one box only. The info from "make search key=ups", along > > with a little more digging, reveals that 'nut' is probably the only one of > > these ports that will enable one box to listen to the UPS via the serial > > port, and then broadcast the UPS status info over TCP/IP for other boxes to > > listen and respond to. > > > > Does anyone else have this setup running? > > Yes. It hasn't been seriously tested yet, as power hasn't gone out > long enough to force a shutdown. .... and plug your switch into the UPS. jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk If it's broken really badly - don't fix it either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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