From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 20 02:10:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 67FC216A41F for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:10:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB5743D46 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:10:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1EdeeW-000EWd-Nn; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:10:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200511200125.jAK1P2DE028304@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200511200125.jAK1P2DE028304@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <81D14A6E-B95C-4F5F-9C4D-3CAE7C03669D@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:09:59 -0700 To: Jerry McAllister X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Free BSD Questions list , Kiffin Gish Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:10:03 -0000 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