On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:27:15PM +0800, Michael Vincent K. Pozon - CompE wrote:
>
> Have you tried tickling RH linux to auto-shutdown when power
> outage is about to happen ? i'm currently using APC UPS with some of our
> servers here. I want to use the feature of this ups with linux. any steps
> ? links about this stuff ? or in a server setup like : M$windows2000/NT as
> a domain controller and sends an adminstrative alerts to all the member
> servers to shutdown automatically when power outage is to happen .
> please advice.
Get PowerChutePlus from the APC site... I think it also comes with the
distribution CD. About administrative alerts, I think (?) there's
(client) support for monitoring a machine connected to the UPS.
# rpm -qi PowerChutePlus
Name : PowerChutePlus Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 4.5.1 Vendor: American Power Conversion Corp.
Release : 1 Build Date: Wed Sep 1 08:38:53 1999
Install date: Thu Oct 21 22:23:18 1999 Build Host: hammer.software.apcc.com
Group : Utilities/System Source RPM: PowerChutePlus-4.5.1-1.src.rpm
Size : 5485094 License: (c) 1999 APC, inc.
Summary : UPS management software for APC UPS models
Description :
This program allows users to safely shut down their system in response
to power failures and other power events, and configure and manage APC
UPS models.
Mike
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