Depending on the UPS itself and what you want, Cyberpower brand does provide commandline apps to get basic status and manage shutdowns of host computers under Linux, though I haven't tried them myself.
-- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Peatfield Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 9:30 PM To: Ken Teh Cc: scientific-linux-users Subject: Re: apc or tripplite or something else On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Ken Teh wrote: > Is APC (or some other make) preferred over tripplite as a linux friendly ups? > Is everyone using nut or are the vendor supplied software good enough? > > I have only used tripplite and nut and it has been less than satisfactory. > It's always a struggle to put one together. I've been happy enough with nut monitoring APCs (over serial and USB), though at least when we started using nut there were no sl packages so we built our own based on Fedora srpms... which was much less hassle than getting it to build on Solaris-8 :-) -- Jon
