On 30 Mar 2007 at 10:21, Aaron Poffenberger wrote: > I was recently running apcupsd without problem. Nevertheless I > swtiched, recently, to nut [1] because it's so much better. It has > excellent APC monitoring. If your APC is Smart or a Backups Pro model, > it can control all the exposed functions. Even cooler, it's called nut > because it's the "Network UPS Tools" kit. If you have more than one > system plugged into the same UPS, the system monitoring the UPS can let > other systems know they should shutdown so everything goes down cleanly. > Lastly, it has a nice scheduler that send you alerts when the UPS has > been on battery power for some n period of time and let you know when > it's back on the mains. > > Use nut. You'll be happy you did. > > Aaron
Actually your information is inacurate and unfairly biased. Both NUT and APCUPSd have very similar capabilities for shared UPSes and notifying other servers, as well as reporting, graphing, etc. In fact, they share a lot of code (pls review the changelogs) and even the comm protocol is similar although by default it runs on different ports. The major difference has to do with their development cycles, goals and sponsorship. Namely, APCUPSd is totally independent development of UPS management code for only one brand of UPS (APC) and with frequent releases. In the last 3 years NUT has not been properly updated; its original goal was to support as many UPS brands as possible; and in recent years it has been "sponsored" by MGE. (I believe that includes full-time employment for the primary developer.) Now, an interesting recent development may change this analysis completely -- the fact that APC has been acquired by MGE, but only time will tell the story... > > [1] Found in ports. Online documentation at > <http://www.networkupstools.org/compat/>. > > Thierry Lacoste wrote: > > I'd like to know if it is safe to run apcupsd-3.14.0. > > There are some issues regarding pthreads on OpenBSD > > raised in the apcupsd-3.12.x user's guide but these issues > > are not mentioned anymore in the apcupsd-3.14.x user's guide. > > > > Is it better to use apc-upsd from ports? > > It seems to be a bit old and I could not find any documentation > > on how to configure and use it. > > > > Any recommandations would be much appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > Thierry. > > --------------------------------------------------------- System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bitwise Internet Technologies, Inc. 22 Drydock Avenue tel: (617) 737-1837 Boston, MA 02210 fax: (617) 439-4941
