I'm having a problem that I hope those with greater experience might have some ideas on. I live up in the mountains where the power is ill-conditioned. Transients which would cause a computer to reboot occur on a daily basis. Power failures are frequent and can last anywhere from five minutes to five days. I have all my computers on UPSs so the first two problems are solved. I have a generator for the third problem. The difficulty I am having is with the power failures that last long enough to drain the battery on the UPSs.
As this would damage the batteries, I programmed the UPSs to shut down their respective computers after roughly half the life of each UPS system's capability. The problem that remains is that I would like to be able to have these automatically restart once the power comes back on. For one thing, I have one computer hooked up to sensors taking data that I would like to be off-line as little as possible, and I have another which serves this data to the outside world when possible. This is a low-budget operation, so buying bigger UPSs or auto-generator systems is not an option. Is there any way to have the UPS restart my computers once it knows its back on live power? I am using nutups to communicate with the UPS on the computer hooked to the sensors. I have a tripplite on the other main computer and am using their package. Both are Linux computers. Your help would be greatly appreciated. --Jeff Cunningham _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
