[BBLISA] Any luck with UPSs and UPS monitoring in FreeBSD?

[Alex Aminoff]

Two people (and one off-line) have mentioned apcupsd. What cable are you 
using with that? The special APC cable that plugs into the serial port? 
Or a USB cable?


On 4/15/2013 5:50 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
> Jon Dustin writes:
>
>
>>   > We are using nut (network ups tools) under FreeBSD to let us know when
>>   > the power goes out so we can take appropriate actions. Unfortunately, it
>>   > seems that after getting it working, at some indefinite time in the
>>   > future it stops working, that is, the UPS stops responding. This seems
>>   > to happen with both APC and TrippLite UPSs and with both USB and serial
>>   > cables. Has anyone had good luck with a particular combination of UPS
>>   > brand and communication technology?
>>   
>>   I've had success with APCUPSD in the past. This is a
>>   "non-official" UPS monitoring software package, but it worked
>>   extremely well.
>>   
>>   No FreeBSD boxes for me, but the web site says it is
>>   supported. Good luck!
> 	While I'm having issues at the moment that I haven't had time
> to resolve, I have used FreeBSD+apcupsd+APC UPSs for years.
>
>
> 					Robert Huff
>
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