From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 13:24: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.avatar.com (ns1.avatar.com [199.33.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D1E37B40D for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat (tomcat.avatar.com [199.33.206.20]) by ns1.avatar.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BD9DA4B0C; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:24:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kory Hamzeh" To: "Gelu G. Lupas" , Subject: RE: Which APC UPS to buy? Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:24:02 -0700 Message-ID: <003901c1485b$833fb9e0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-reply-to: <200109281936.f8SJaoK27556@zerg.codec.ro> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal 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 It all depends what UPS software you plan to use. For example, upsd only supports the APC Smart-UPS, but NUT supports Back-UPS Pro (and maybe BackUPS). I'd pick the software first and then select a UPS that it will talk to. I believe NUT is the most comprehensive open UPS software available. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gelu G. Lupas > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:37 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Which APC UPS to buy? > > > I am in the process of buying an APC UPS for my FreeBSD box, > switch and radio > bridge. My otions are Back-UPS and SmartUPS (around 500 VA). I > just need unattnded > shutdown of my FreeBSD box when the UPS has consumed most of the > battery power > and only has enough power left for the next 5 minutes or so. No bells and > whistles needed (ie: monitoring events), just efficient and failure-proof > shutdown with one of the daemons available in the ports tree. In > other words, I > just want maximum reliability with minimum costs ;P. The question > is: which UPS > to buy? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message