[clue-tech] Anyone know of a good affordable linux compatible ups?

[David L. Anselmi]

Jack Parker wrote:
> We used an APC with excellent results.  The biggest issue we had was where
> the UPS had a serial line instead of a USB.  Never did figure that out,
> other things got in the way, and the company folded before I got a chance
> to.

I've seen people use the serial port with Linux.  And perhaps apcupsd 
handles that.

> We had multiple servers on each UPS, one of the nice features of
> apcupsd was it's ability to talk to it's master - the server which
> was actually talking to the UPS.  So all servers would shut down
> cleanly.

Cool.  That's one thing I've been wondering about and since I didn't 
know I never bothered to hook up my UPS.  But it has a serial port.

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> Always a good idea to have a monitor plugged into the UPS as well.
> Especially one which can get to all of the boxes nearby, just in case.

Maybe.  The network is the computer.  And laptops have a built-in UPS.

Dave