On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 23:09 -0400, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Matt Ivie wrote: > > > I'm sure this has been asked before and I did search the list archives > > but anything I did find looked to be older. > > > > I'm looking at buying some UPS and I'm not sure how to tell which > > currently sold models are supported by NUT. I know that not every new > > model will be supported but there has to be some right? > > Generally, we find this out when someone posts to the list asking for help > with a new UPS. > > > Is there a specific designation I can look for in the technical specs > > that should help me determine this? > > Here are some general thoughts on why this is a difficult question to answer: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/7987 > > > Are there some manufacturers that > > are friendly to the project and make devices that work well with NUT? > > This is a little easier to answer. For the Eaton and Powerware brands, we can > often ask the company to help out with technical information. Several other > companies have provided tech support or protocol information. Some of this is > visible if you choose either "****" or "*****" from the "Support Level" > dropdown on this page: > > http://www.networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html > > (Sorry, the 4-star rating is strictly 4-star, and does not include 5-star by > default. JavaScript help is welcome here.) > > On the other hand, I personally can't recommend new APC equipment now that > they have started using a proprietary protocol that several customers have > been unable to obtain documentation for. I have an old APC USB HID UPS, and > it works well, but their new equipment is apparently more limited in what it > can monitor. > > > Any help on this would be great because the worst thing would be to buy > > a nice new UPS for a server and then find out that it is not supported > > by NUT. > > > Short answer: buy from a distributor that allows open-box returns. The NUT > project can't be liable for recommendations based on old information. > > If you can provide a little more information about the kind of UPS that you > are looking for, I'm sure we could narrow things down a little. Are you > protecting desktops or small servers? A whole machine room? >
I'm really just looking for a UPS that might run a couple of small servers and other small devices(routers or switches). If I could get 15-30 minutes of runtime from the batts and o course run the automated shutdown and reboot sequence through nut that would be great. The server I'm looking at has a PSU capable of 200W but I don't expect to be maxing out the system capabilities at all. I'll be running either Debian Wheezy(most likely) or Trisquel 6.0 and I'd like to just use the pre-packaged version of NUT rather than building a new package if I can. I don't know if that's enough information to point me in the right direction or not. Thanks _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
