Re: [SLE] Multiple Linux on one UPS

Look on the CDs and the Web (e.g., http://www.vlug.org/linux/links/Hardware_Related/UPS's_-_Batteries/ for the packages and see which ones are supported. Jeffrey Quoting Ivan Gustin :

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Start with telling us what UPS you have.

None. I am going to buy one, so I ask before.

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APC makes their software source available, though I am told it does not use the smart mode.

:-(

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The SuSE 7.1 CDs have argoups, smartups, and upsilon. I could not get smartups to work with my APC Back-UPS 650. It detected power failure but never detected low battery and so never did the shutdown.

?!? Why?

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I use the APC SSD package.

Works OK? Can it work in master/slave mode, with +2 Linux machines?

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The communication between slaves and masters is over the LAN.

OK, but how? Can APC SSD do this communication?

Bye, Ivan Gustin

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HTH, Jeffrey

Quoting Ivan Gustin :

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Connect the UPS to one Linux, the master. It tells the slaves to shutdown, wait a period for comfirmation, shuts itself down and turns off the UPS. Details depend on the UPS brand and model and which UPS software you are using.

Wow... Great.

But, *how* tells the slaves to shutdown? UPS software on master, or must

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write some script? (I don't use any UPS monitoring software by now).

Bye, Ivan Gustin

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Jeffrey

Quoting Ivan Gustin :

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Hi,

I wonder how can I use one UPS on 3 Linux machines. I want connect

low

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battery signal to all of them and get them shut down. Is there any solution or I must use 3 UPSs

Bye, Ivan Gustin

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