FreeBSD and UPS

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Fri Mar 6 08:36:25 PST 2009


>
> I am working in Angola and have had a lot of problems with electricity // 
> until I have discovered this soft.
> It works perfectly with the apc network card (It came as an option on my APC 
> 1500).
>
> I have setup apcupsd to use snmp (this seems to be the most stable use).
>
>
> I was very surprised because the soft did shutdown the server automatically 
> when the UPS went out of battery? and I had not tested that (lack of time).
> So the soft even went beyond my expectations?
>

it is important too to make sure BIOS settings are set to automatically 
power up computer when power is present.

by default it will not until you press a button


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