Hi, Does anyone have experience with running SuSE 8.2 with an Uninterruptible Power Supply? Does Suse recognize the unit? How do you set it up? I fouund a reference to smartups in the help file, but can't find it on the distro disks. Thanks, Jim Flanagan
On Monday 01 March 2004 07:25 am, linuxjim wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have experience with running SuSE 8.2 with an Uninterruptible Power Supply? Does Suse recognize the unit? How do you set it up?
I fouund a reference to smartups in the help file, but can't find it on the distro disks.
Thanks,
Jim Flanagan
Its called apcupsd and has been on SUSE since 7.3 at least. Once installed you need to configure it primarily for UPS type, cable type and communication port. All documentation ends up in /usr/share/doc/packages. My APC Back-Ups Pro 420 is connected via serial. Works great. Stan
On Monday 01 March 2004 07:25 am, linuxjim wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have experience with running SuSE 8.2 with an Uninterruptible Power Supply? Does Suse recognize the unit? How do you set it up?
Its called apcupsd and has been on SUSE since 7.3 at least. Once installed you need to configure it primarily for UPS type, cable type and communication port. All documentation ends up in /usr/share/doc/packages. I can second that apcupsd is working goood from 8.0 up to 9.0 here at work for me with couple different apc ups's. do not have the model numbers off
At 10:26 AM 3/1/2004, S.R.Glasoe wrote: the top of my head but its good an its on the disks for suse. has a webpage also that gives you some info ect jack
At 07:25 01/03/2004 -0600, linuxjim wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have experience with running SuSE 8.2 with an Uninterruptible Power Supply? Does Suse recognize the unit? How do you set it up?
I fouund a reference to smartups in the help file, but can't find it on the distro disks.
Thanks,
Jim Flanagan
you can use NUT (Network UPS Tools), it is present in the SuSE 8.1 (1.2.x ) or see http://eu1.networkupstools.org/ for more informations and http://eu1.networkupstools.org/compat/stable.html for UPS hardware compatibility list (ver : 1.4.1) you can also use Personal Solution-Pac with MGE UPS, that is very easy to install an use : http://www.mgeups.com/download/soft/splist.htm#PSP Vincent
On Monday 01 March 2004 07:25 am, linuxjim wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have experience with running SuSE 8.2 with an Uninterruptible Power Supply? Does Suse recognize the unit? How do you set it up?
I fouund a reference to smartups in the help file, but can't find it on the distro disks.
I have an APS 350 which has the connection but I dont know of anyone who has that working with Linux. It would be nice to know if that unit will work with the ups software. When i first installed it I couldnt find anything on that particular equipment. Richard
On Monday 01 March 2004 11:55 am, Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Monday 01 March 2004 07:25 am, linuxjim wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have experience with running SuSE 8.2 with an Uninterruptible Power Supply? Does Suse recognize the unit? How do you set it up?
I fouund a reference to smartups in the help file, but can't find it on the distro disks.
I have an APS 350 which has the connection but I dont know of anyone who has that working with Linux. It would be nice to know if that unit will work with the ups software. When i first installed it I couldnt find anything on that particular equipment. Richard
Have you tried either apcupsd or nut software? Both are on SUSE DVD/CDs. Does the APS 350 (did you mean APC?) have serial or usb or ethernet connections? The nut software has a long list of manufacturers and models of ups systems. Check the URLs from Vincent's posts. Stan
On Monday 01 March 2004 12:36 pm, S.R.Glasoe wrote:
Have you tried either apcupsd or nut software? Both are on SUSE DVD/CDs. Does the APS 350 (did you mean APC?) have serial or usb or ethernet connections?
My APC 350 has the usb connection. I had tried the apcupd when I first got the thing about a year ago and could not get it to work with my ps. Probably me but I got sidetracked and went to other things. The important thing is the UPS has saved me several times when we had a thunderstorm coming through. I put them on a batch of computers I maintain and havent had but one callout since. Nice things to have on a work/office machine that stays on all the time.
The nut software has a long list of manufacturers and models of ups systems. Check the URLs from Vincent's posts.
Thanks, I'll give them a look and see if I can get one of them working. RA
On 01-Mar-04 linuxjim wrote:
Does anyone have experience with running SuSE 8.2 with an Uninterruptible Power Supply? Does Suse recognize the unit? How do you set it up? >
I fouund a reference to smartups in the help file, but can't find it on the distro disks.
Not quite an answer to the question as asked, but a while ago I bought
a Belkin Gold Pro 650 UPS, which had a driver for Linux (and other
Unix & freeBSD) on the CDROM.
I have found it to work well.
I have it connected to one machine via the serial port. After 5 minutes
of power-out (not uncommon where I live) the machine it is connected to
shuts down. Meanwhile, this machine has sent email messages to the other
machines on my LAN which are monitored every minute by cron jobs. When
one of these is received by another machine, it too shuts down. After
time for all this to happen, the UPS itself switches off.
It took a little while to figure out how to coordinate all this, but
now it works smoothly.
I hope this is useful.
Ted.
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linuxjim wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have experience with running SuSE 8.2 with an Uninterruptible Power Supply? Does Suse recognize the unit? How do you set it up?
I fouund a reference to smartups in the help file, but can't find it on the distro disks.
Thanks,
Jim Flanagan
I have a Liebert GXT1000MT-230 and a GXT700MT-230 in use here. http://www.liebert.com for the packages and details of cable pinouts. There is a commandline tool and a GUI version, both work fine. They also gave me an additional free license, so I could control 2 PC's, I have to ask them again as I lost the hard drive with the license. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
What great info. I should have known there is a good way to do this in Linux! Now, I'm off to get a decent UPS. Thanks to all, and to Vince for the good info and links. I did come across this as well today. Actually I stumbled across it reading a link from the OT list.... A good UPS How To by Eric Raymond.... http://tldp.org/HOWTO/UPS-HOWTO/ Thanks again, Jim Flanagan On Monday 01 March 2004 16:30, Sid Boyce wrote:
linuxjim wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have experience with running SuSE 8.2 with an Uninterruptible Power Supply? Does Suse recognize the unit? How do you set it up?
I fouund a reference to smartups in the help file, but can't find it on the distro disks.
Thanks,
Jim Flanagan
I have a Liebert GXT1000MT-230 and a GXT700MT-230 in use here. http://www.liebert.com for the packages and details of cable pinouts. There is a commandline tool and a GUI version, both work fine. They also gave me an additional free license, so I could control 2 PC's, I have to ask them again as I lost the hard drive with the license. Regards Sid.
-- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
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