From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 13: 9: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cmr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net (cmr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net [198.5.241.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29CBD37B400 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:09:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from csserve0.corp.us.uu.net by cmr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: csserve0.corp.us.UU.NET [153.39.88.140]) id QQmefc09672; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:08:49 GMT Received: from haiti.corp.us.uu.net by csserve0.corp.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: localhost [127.0.0.1]) id QQmefc14301; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:05:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jamgill@localhost) by haiti.corp.us.uu.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g1SL5Ea06673; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:05:14 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: haiti.corp.us.uu.net: jamgill owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:05:13 -0500 (EST) From: "jamgill@uu.net" X-Sender: jamgill@haiti.corp.us.uu.net To: Unix Admin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPS software for Smart-UPS APC In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20020227133309.00e5e448@mail.sage-american.com> Message-ID: 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 On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Unix Admin wrote: > Am installing a USB Smart-UPS unit made by APC and its bundled software is > only for SCO Unix and other non-FBSD OS. Thus, I suppose the SCO is > incompatible and was wondering which software would be the best choice from > the ports for monitoring the power and doing the management & shutdown. I > see the following possibles and if anyone has had with experience with this > UPS and any of these programs, I would like your recommendations about > which best to use ...much obliged!: > > Port: nut-0.45.3 > Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/nut > Info: Network UPS Tools > Maint: DougB@FreeBSD.org Nut is nice because it is designed to be network-aware and if you have more than one machine relying on the power coming from this UPS it provides a way for the machines that are not directly (serial, USB) connected to the machine to "monitor" it. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --gill | Tatu Ylonen, SSH 1.2.12 README: "Beware that the most effective | way for someone to decrypt your data may be with a rubber hose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message