On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:25:19 -0700, Kevin <plug-discuss@firstpacket.com> wrote:
> After a recent "power event" at my house, I began wondering about the
> best way to log such things.  In corporate environments, I have seen
> "smart" UPS boxes that constantly signal (over a serial cable) to some
> piece of software running on a PC.  This is handy for not only recording
> power failures and restores, but also such things as lags and spikes.
> IIRC, the software can even send syslog, smtp, text-pages, or other
> alerts to users/admins and gracefully power-down the server if the
> battery begins to run out of juice.
> 
> What's the best way to do this in a linux environment (with a few
> Solaris 8/9 and OpenBSD/i386 boxen)?
> 
> Found a few starters in google-land.
> http://www2.apcupsd.com/
> http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~doug/ups.html
> http://apcc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=125
> 
> >From what I am reading (just started looking into this), I can run APC's
> Powerchute software on linux or I can run the open source apcupsd on
> linux.
> 
> Anyone had experience with either of these options?  Preferences?
> Gotchas?  Lessons Learned?  Recommendations?
> 
> Anyone know of other options?  Although APC is the only brand of UPS I
> have ever bought, I would not be opposed to trying others.

Network ups tools is probably what you want: http://eu1.networkupstools.org/

I played around with it several years ago, and it wasn't quite ready
for primetime, but it looks like it may be quite a bit better now.

-Rod
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