Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:09:59 -0700 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ... Message-ID: <81D14A6E-B95C-4F5F-9C4D-3CAE7C03669D@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <200511200125.jAK1P2DE028304@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200511200125.jAK1P2DE028304@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Nov 19, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> >> On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Kiffin Gish wrote: >> >>> And which one do you recommend? >>> >>> I have two mini-towers, one an old dell dimension 650R 200W and >>> another >>> clone anthlon-xp 300W. >>> >>> Do I need two UPS or can I get one which can service these two >>> machines? >> >> In your case I would get two so that each machine can be signaled to >> separately and if it is a two way street reply separately. I have >> never used the UPS daemons so don't know how they work but I doubt >> they are made to work with multiples on the UPS. > > You can get multiple interfaces on the UPS that will talk to more > than one machine to tell it when to do a shutdown. For some models, > there is a card, sort of like one that has some number of serial ports > depending on how many you want and are willing to pay for - it doesn't > add a lot. This is true, anyway, for the APC UPS units we have. > > ////jerry Cool! I learn something new every day. I do expect such high end ones as the ones described here to cost a pretty penny? The colocate facility where my rack is has a building wide industrial UPS system of a gazillion VA so I have not looked in to these since I bought a bunch of TrippLite 1100VA ones for my systems about 7 years ago... Thanks! Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net
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