[Novalug] Can I test a UPS battery?

Stuart D. Gathman stuart@gathman.org
Thu May 10 13:35:14 EDT 2007


On Thu, 10 May 2007, Beartooth wrote:

>> Bottom line - get your apc daemon running. Run the smartups (I presume it's 
>> a smartups?) management console available for Linux on APC, and set the 
>> operational parameters for the UPS. I know this goes against the "plug and 
>> forget" mentality, but it saves your money as the unit lives longer.
>
> 	Smartups? Probably way out of my class. I have a backups pro 650, a 
> backups RS 1500, the backups LS 700 that I just put the new battery into 
> (downstairs), and the backups 650 that I was asking about. (I was trying to 
> get another backups pro, and goofed.)

I use the nut package for linux to monitor APC upses.  I have 
RPMS for RedHat.  Other distros include nut.  The main feature of nut
is that it separates drivers, client, and server.  When multiple machines
are connected to the same (largish) UPS, one is connected to the
UPS, and both can monitor for auto-shutdown.  When your server has
multiple power supplies (mid and high end Dell servers, for example),
you can monitor them all, and auto-shutdown when power supplies available
drops to a minimum.  Drivers run in their own small C process, so driver
bugs are limited to at worst feeding bogus data to upsd.

http://www.networkupstools.org/

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