From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 8:41:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C72937B402 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:41:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f0MGfIh26151; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:41:18 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3A6C6B4A.44345A0E@finsyn.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:41:16 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Matt Bettinger Subject: RE: UPS' Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Jan-01 Matt Bettinger wrote: > Hello, > > Had the power go out for me at the home and ofcourse the network went down and > my > bsd box had a tough time recovering. Think it is about time fora UPS. What > would > y'all recommend for a UPS and how does it work with the upsd port if at all? > > Thanks > > Matt - Houston APC Smart-UPS 700 and upsmond from the ports. You can get this report: vanheden> ps ax|grep ups 304 ?? Is 0:04.67 /usr/local/sbin/upsmond -p /dev/cuaa1 -r 20 45358 p0 S+ 0:00.01 grep ups vanheden> upsstat UPSMON Status Reporting Facility --- upsmond version 2.1.3 --- APC UPS 700 Status Info -------------------------------------------------------- Model: SMART-UPS 700 CopyRight: (C) APCC Manufacture date: 12/18/99 Serial #: NS9951331687 Firmware version: 50.11.I Local ID: UPS_IDEN Last battery replace date: 12/18/99 Nominal line voltage: 230 V Nominal battery voltage: 24 V Available: YES Standby: NO Line Power: OK Battery: OK Line Voltage: 227.50 Load: 20.20 % Battery Voltage: 27.60 Battery Level: 100.00 % -------------------------------------------------------- vanheden> And it tells vanheden to shutdown if the power is down for more than X minutes. (-r 20 = 20 mins in the command above). And it logs too: vanheden> tail /var/log/upsmon.log Sep 19 00:29:31 vanheden UPS: Input line power back Oct 14 08:31:11 vanheden UPS: Input line power failure Oct 14 08:31:13 vanheden UPS: Input line power back Oct 25 10:00:21 vanheden UPS: upsmond daemon started - version 2.1.3 Oct 30 09:24:24 vanheden UPS: upsmond daemon started - version 2.1.3 Jan 2 13:56:47 vanheden UPS: Input line power failure Jan 2 13:56:47 vanheden UPS: Input line power failure Jan 2 13:56:48 vanheden UPS: Input line power back Jan 2 16:30:28 vanheden UPS: Input line power failure Jan 2 16:30:29 vanheden UPS: Input line power back Very satisfied customer. /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message