Linux is just that cool! :-)<br><br>In windows you would of had to reboot a few times! :-)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cyber Source</b> <<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">
peter@thecybersource.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Wow, and some people think Linux is hard. Just got an APC UPS on USB,
<br>plugged it in, all set. Some simple steps,<br>1. yum install apcupsd<br>2. start the service "service apcupsd start"<br>3. check it out "service apcupsd status"<br>4. all set<br>Configs can be made for customizations at /etc/apc/apcupsd.conf in a
<br>very easy to read explanatory file. It finds the USB device<br>automagically (which is really nice because of the way USB device ID's<br>can flip flop around, I expected a big problem with that). Emails root<br>of power outages, etc..
<br>Now what is REALLY cool and I just found this but you can network the<br>UPS! That is too say that you can have 1 UPS monitor or notify another<br>pc of power failure that would be plugged into the same UPS (so as the
<br>one properly shuts down, it doesn't leave the other running to<br>eventually slam down). That is too cool, gotta poke into that a some<br>more and will keep you all posted. I'm assuming not too many people on<br>the list have had experience with USB UPS's as I didn't get too much
<br>response from my initial inquiries. If anyone on the list has experience<br>with networking the UPS's, please give my you .02. Thanks<br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">
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