[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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