Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 23:32:06 -0600 From: Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: ups recommendations... Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961203053206.006b76e4@mail.jump.net>
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I have some questions concerning power problems, and how y'all (the Texas non-gender specific pronoun) might be handling them. I'm open to any level of assistance you can provide on any/all questions (flames happily ignored). So here goes... 1) At this time I have a ups on each machine. Various makes and models and capablilities mixed and (mis)matched. I'd like to change to a single ups with a warning to one of the freebsd boxes when time is short. I can handle a script which will tell everyone to shut down, I just need to be know when to send it. I know of some ups interfaces which work with win95/winNT, and I do happen to have a win95 box on the system. However I don't know how to make the win95 box tell the freebsd box(es) to shut down. 2) When something *does* happen, and for some unknown reason things need to be rebooted, I'd like to be able to do that remotely. I've been told of a handly dandy little box which you plug into a phone line. You enter a code of some variety (via the touch-pad), and it will signal the machine to reboot. I've tried some web searches, but haven't found anything matching this description. I called my isp and asked them what they had. The support people didn't know what it was called. The only description they could give me was "black and silver box with the word 'Stanley' on it that had a phone jack, a power in and a power out and some other connector attached." They assumed the 'other connector' was something attached to one of the main machines, but since the line went into a conduit they couldn't follow it. 3) I have an gas-powered electric generator. It has a slot for a starter (it's the manual pull chord right now). Anyone set up a generator on their system? What kind of starter interface works? I called some of the local briggs&straton dealers and they acted like I was speaking some ancient swahili dialect. 4) I was told to keep my router off of the ups completely. The logic was if my router was still up and the telephone company was down then it would be more difficult for the router to reconnect. I don't quite follow this line of thinking. After all the CO has power backups out the wazoo, so it stands to reason it would be up. Anyway, what thoughts do you have on this point? Keep the router on the ups or off? Thanks muchly for whatever help you can provide. I don't mind researching if all you can toss at me is a web pointer or a company name. Lee Crites
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