Re: UPS advice, please ...
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:21:59 -0500, > Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: >> I have never used the UPS daemons so don't know how they work but >> I doubt they are made to work with multiples on the UPS. > I've never done it, but I believe this is quite possible with > apcupsd. Yes it is possible. apcupsd follows a client-server model. It works great for me. It is extremely configurable and reasonably well documented. There is also an active development group, so it is getting tested out on new APC UPS's as they come out. Sandy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
On Nov 20, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Murray Taylor wrote: Second the motion -- nut works well with the APC ups's -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cezar Fistik Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 10:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ... Hello Kiffin, Friday, November 18, 2005, 10:20:08 PM, you wrote: I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them against power outages. These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean up. What do I need and where can I look for more detailed information. check this out, I use it and it works with many different UPS. # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/nut # cat pkg-descr This is a developing project to monitor a large assortment of UPS hardware. Network communications are used so that multiple systems can monitor a single physical UPS and shut down together if necessary without any special "sharing hardware" on the UPS itself. CGI scripts are provided to monitor UPS status via a WEB browser. WWW: http://www.networkupstools.org/ I personally use APC UPS with apcupsd (in ports) which works very well with the USB cable supplied. - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks http://www.secure-computing.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: UPS advice, please ...
Second the motion -- nut works well with the APC ups's > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cezar Fistik > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 10:05 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ... > > Hello Kiffin, > > Friday, November 18, 2005, 10:20:08 PM, you wrote: > > > I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to > protect them > > against power outages. > > > These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just > > some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time > to clean up. > > > What do I need and where can I look for more detailed information. > > > check this out, I use it and it works with many different UPS. > > # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/nut > # cat pkg-descr > This is a developing project to monitor a large assortment of > UPS hardware. > Network communications are used so that multiple systems can monitor a > single physical UPS and shut down together if necessary without any > special "sharing hardware" on the UPS itself. CGI scripts are provided > to monitor UPS status via a WEB browser. > > WWW: http://www.networkupstools.org/ > > - Doug Barton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Best regards, > Cezarmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > ***This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal.*** > --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ***This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal.*** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
Hello Kiffin, Friday, November 18, 2005, 10:20:08 PM, you wrote: > I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them > against power outages. > These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just > some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean up. > What do I need and where can I look for more detailed information. check this out, I use it and it works with many different UPS. # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/nut # cat pkg-descr This is a developing project to monitor a large assortment of UPS hardware. Network communications are used so that multiple systems can monitor a single physical UPS and shut down together if necessary without any special "sharing hardware" on the UPS itself. CGI scripts are provided to monitor UPS status via a WEB browser. WWW: http://www.networkupstools.org/ - Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Best regards, Cezarmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
On Nov 19, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Kiffin Gish wrote: And which one do you recommend? I have two mini-towers, one an old dell dimension 650R 200W and another clone anthlon-xp 300W. Do I need two UPS or can I get one which can service these two machines? In your case I would get two so that each machine can be signaled to separately and if it is a two way street reply separately. I have never used the UPS daemons so don't know how they work but I doubt they are made to work with multiples on the UPS. You can get multiple interfaces on the UPS that will talk to more than one machine to tell it when to do a shutdown. For some models, there is a card, sort of like one that has some number of serial ports depending on how many you want and are willing to pay for - it doesn't add a lot. This is true, anyway, for the APC UPS units we have. jerry Cool! I learn something new every day. I do expect such high end ones as the ones described here to cost a pretty penny? The colocate facility where my rack is has a building wide industrial UPS system of a gazillion VA so I have not looked in to these since I bought a bunch of TrippLite 1100VA ones for my systems about 7 years ago... Thanks! Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
> > > On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Kiffin Gish wrote: > > > And which one do you recommend? > > > > I have two mini-towers, one an old dell dimension 650R 200W and > > another > > clone anthlon-xp 300W. > > > > Do I need two UPS or can I get one which can service these two > > machines? > > In your case I would get two so that each machine can be signaled to > separately and if it is a two way street reply separately. I have > never used the UPS daemons so don't know how they work but I doubt > they are made to work with multiples on the UPS. You can get multiple interfaces on the UPS that will talk to more than one machine to tell it when to do a shutdown. For some models, there is a card, sort of like one that has some number of serial ports depending on how many you want and are willing to pay for - it doesn't add a lot. This is true, anyway, for the APC UPS units we have. jerry > If you are not going to have the machine interact with the UPS then > you can get one to cover both machines > > Chad > > > > Both run FreeBSD 5.4. > > > > Thanks a lot in advance. > > > > -- > > Kiffin Rex Gish > > Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
And which one do you recommend? I have two mini-towers, one an old dell dimension 650R 200W and another clone anthlon-xp 300W. Do I need two UPS or can I get one which can service these two machines? Both run FreeBSD 5.4. The way these daemons work is that after a certain time-out while on battery power (usually set to 5-10 minutes), the computer sends a shut-down command to the UPS and then turns itself off. After 30 seconds or so, the UPS then shuts down. Upon AC power coming back, the UPS automatically turns on and the computer reboots (you need to have the computer automatically boot on restoration of power, a BIOS setting). If you want to put multiple machines on a single UPS, it's nice to inform the other machine(s) before the controlling computer shuts down and kills the UPS... I'd look at apcupsd (although I haven't used it)...from the ports description: "It can monitor and log the current power and battery status, perform automatic shutdown, and can run in network mode in order to power down other hosts on a LAN" That may be just what you want... ~Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > I have never used the UPS daemons so don't know how they work but > I doubt they are made to work with multiples on the UPS. I've never done it, but I believe this is quite possible with apcupsd. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Kiffin Gish wrote: And which one do you recommend? I have two mini-towers, one an old dell dimension 650R 200W and another clone anthlon-xp 300W. Do I need two UPS or can I get one which can service these two machines? In your case I would get two so that each machine can be signaled to separately and if it is a two way street reply separately. I have never used the UPS daemons so don't know how they work but I doubt they are made to work with multiples on the UPS. If you are not going to have the machine interact with the UPS then you can get one to cover both machines Chad Both run FreeBSD 5.4. Thanks a lot in advance. -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands -Original Message- From: Dan O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 21:41 To: Kiffin Gish; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ... I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them against power outages. These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean up. What do I need and where can I look for more detailed information. I use upsmon, from the ports collection. Nothing fancy, and it works only with APC Smart-UPS...but it works great, and the shutdown time-delay is configurable. The Smart-UPS connects to your computer via a serial port. ~Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED]" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: UPS advice, please ...
And which one do you recommend? I have two mini-towers, one an old dell dimension 650R 200W and another clone anthlon-xp 300W. Do I need two UPS or can I get one which can service these two machines? Both run FreeBSD 5.4. Thanks a lot in advance. -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands > -Original Message- > From: Dan O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 21:41 > To: Kiffin Gish; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ... > > > >I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect > >them > > against power outages. > > > > These are two simple machines running at home so nothing > fancy. Just > > some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time > to clean > > up. > > > > What do I need and where can I look for more detailed information. > > > I use upsmon, from the ports collection. Nothing fancy, and it works > only with APC Smart-UPS...but it works great, and the shutdown > time-delay is configurable. The Smart-UPS connects to your > computer via > a serial port. > > ~Dan > > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
> I meant to put the URL in the last message even though it is a bit obvious: http://www.apcc.com/ It will even talk to you in Dutch if you prefer. jerry > I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them > against power outages. > > These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just > some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean up. > > What do I need and where can I look for more detailed information. > > -- > Kiffin Gish > Gouda, The Netherlands > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
> > I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them > against power outages. > > These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just > some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean up. > > What do I need and where can I look for more detailed information. The APC company web page has, amongst a lot of typical self congradulation, a sort of UPS calculator that will tell you what model of its product it recommends. If you don't want to buy APC, you can take the specs from the model it comes up with and shop it around. We mostly use APC here and they seem to work. jerry > > -- > Kiffin Gish > Gouda, The Netherlands > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them against power outages. These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean up. What do I need and where can I look for more detailed information. I use upsmon, from the ports collection. Nothing fancy, and it works only with APC Smart-UPS...but it works great, and the shutdown time-delay is configurable. The Smart-UPS connects to your computer via a serial port. ~Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: UPS advice, please ...
Kiffin Gish wrote: I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them against power outages. These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean up. What do I need and where can I look for more detailed information. Search the ports tree for *upsd /sysutils/apcupsd /sysutils/upsd come to mind. give them a try. -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
