apcupsd

[HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER]

Hi...

   I have the same UPS and cable running with apcupsd on FreeBSD 4.8.  I 
have nothing but good things to say about the UPS and apcupsd.  Detects 
and reports power failures and power restores.  Properly halts the 
system upon reaching remaining-charge-percentage or time-until-failure 
thresholds.  I have messages logging to stdout and to apcupsd.log via 
syslog.  apcupsd does not send out email notification (AFAIK) but I have 
swatch configured to email me any apcupsd syslog messages.  I receive 
bi-weekly self-test messages.   It has been working flawlessly for about 
18 months.

Chris


Barry Skidmore wrote:

>OS: 5.1-RELEASE
>UPS: Back-UPS 650, serial interface
>Cable: 940-0020B
>
>With the above setup apcupsd detects a power failure, but not a return
>of power, and thus does not send a notification email.
>
>Also, apcupsd does not halt the system.  I noticed in the docs that for
>this to work on FreeBSD you need a Smart UPS, and use the
>--kill-on-powerfail option at the command line.  Since I do not have a
>Smart UPS, I have not tried this option.
>
>My question is what model number of APC UPS is working well for you with
>apcupsd 3.10.6 
>
>My current setup did work fine with Red Hat 9.0 and upcupsd 3.8.0, so I
>do not think this is an issue with the cable.
>
>Thanks,
>Barry 
>On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 01:22, Robert Huff wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello:
>>
>>    
>>
>>> Are there any users of apcupsd on the list?  If so, please
>>> respond to me privately.  I have a question about recommended
>>> UPS's that work well with FreeBSD.
>>>      
>>>
>>	There are.  :-)
>>	QHat's the question?
>>
>>
>>				Robert Huff
>>
>>
>>    
>>
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