On Wed, 7 May 2008, Arnaud Quette wrote: > 2008/5/2 Emard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:29:28AM +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: >> > Hi Emard, >> > >> > 2008/5/2 Emard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> HI all >> >> >> >> How to setup nut to use and monitor laptop battery on linux? >> >> (/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state) >> > >> > why would you do so? there is nothing to gain doing so (no >> >> Laptop may be considered a replacement (or "hot-spare") for the >> if a real nut server in the production setup goes down. >> >> > master/slave conf possible). >> >> Why not? Machines (slaves) on the network may be on dumb ups-es with >> no management link, and be connected to network with a nut running on >> a laptop (master) which 'knows' power fail condition and serve >> dumb ups machines, shutting them down few minutes after power failure. >> Much better than dumb ups alone.
That's actually a pretty brilliant idea. Ghetto, but brilliant. Much like hanging an old cell phone off a Nagios server via serial cable so it can send SMS alerts directly, as opposed to worrying about connectivity failover, etc (getting signal inside a datacenter cabinet notwithstanding)...so at least when monitoring from the inside, you know the difference between a link failure and a power fail. -Dan -- "This Is Not Goodbye!" -DM, August 11th 2001, 10 PMish Chicago Time --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --------------------------- _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
