From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 14 10:13:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kirk.sector14.net (24-28-205-226.mf3.cox.rr.com [24.28.205.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 250D637B403 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 10:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgl@kirk.sector14.net) Received: (from dgl@localhost) by kirk.sector14.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6EHCtS22049; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:12:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgl) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:12:53 -0400 From: Doug Lee To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-users@geeks.org Subject: Good UPS & software to work with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010714131253.Z477@kirk.sector14.net> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Lee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-users@geeks.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: Bartimaeus Group 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 I want to connect a UPS to a number of things here and control it from FREEBSD. I'd like it if the FREEBSD box could - Log (via syslog hopefully) events detected by the UPS. - Inform all logged-in users of power outages that last over a settable period of time, like 30 seconds. - Maybe shut itself down after a settable powerless time, like 15 minutes (depending on UPS endurance) or, better, based on amount or percentage of remaining UPS power. I see a lot of UPS systems that come ready for a Windows host, and some that do SNMP but (I think) via a serial connection rather than Ethernet. I run ucd-snmp but have not learned how to do SNMP over serial. Suggestions welcome, including brands or general ideas. Recommendations for brands based on quality and other concerns also welcome. If it really is better to connect the UPS to Windows, I can; but I don't leave the Windows machine on quite as much as the FreeBSD box, and I like the idea of being able to check on the UPS from elsewhere... Thanks in advance. -- Doug Lee dgl@visi.com http://www.visi.com/~dgl Bartimaeus Group doug@bartsite.com http://www.bartsite.com "All these years, the people said, 'He's acting like a kid.' He did not know he could not fly, so he did." --Guy Clark, "The Cape" (Dublin Blues) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message