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.
...Kevin
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