[Novalug] Can I test a UPS battery?

Beartooth karhunhammas@Lserv.com
Fri May 11 16:40:53 EDT 2007


On Thu, 10 May 2007, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

> 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/

 	Hmm ... Nice site. But when I tried to find downloads, it 
flew a wild goose into a mare's nest of expired migpc sites ...

 	I'm having a ridiculous hassle getting a new USB mouse to 
work through my old KVM switch at the moment -- despite the fact 
that the one it replaces is a USB mouse with an adapter, just 
like the new one. I seem to have to introduce them all, ever so 
politely, to one another -- worse than a minuet.

 	But when I get as far as an XP-free testbed machine to 
start on, I'll try yum install nut; and if that fails, I know 
I've seen some sort of UPS-interface in pirut. Thanks for the 
clue!

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