From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 28 14:49:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A0316A407 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:49:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73EED43CA1 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:49:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so1370142uge for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:49:14 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=giIHdDdPxYK9DkgJEbGhGtKHwZ3eJlzFCBhxKiTMNs2tqVm8D/KEIeDnnZPefUIa+h9LTbYOtqlXlyA+5SpJJAgu+7hrbr+LWkMo1v7Q7QvbBi8ESkc3PMElEdFPxKRcL973ENE3heFyP2kW8mCmE3S4ShbEf3mM5C9jzXikuaY= Received: by 10.67.27.3 with SMTP id e3mr1697026ugj.1164725354668; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:49:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.106.17 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:49:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <226ae0c60611280649m3df039a6k31afd08338aef299@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:49:14 -0500 From: "David Robillard" To: "Amit Joshi" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to choose an UPS? 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: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:49:17 -0000 > Usually, if you are willing to interface the UPS with your Computer, like it should automatically shutdown the computer when there's a power failure, then you may want to buy one with USB support. But I am not sure that you can interface it with FreeBSD. It can be done with Linux and Windows. :) Check out the port sysutils/apcupsd According to the documentation on the project's website http://www.apcupsd.com, it works with both USB and with a serial cable. I've seen other people on this list reporting that it works with both of those solutions. For a network solution, you can also check the sysutils/nut port which also has a USB driver. More info on the project's website at http://www.networkupstools.org/. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122