Re: UPS

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Tom Allison wrote:
> I'm in need of a massive hardware upgrade...
>
> I have UPS's that don't work for more than a minute -- dead battery.  
> But they are "dumb" boxes and want to replace them with smarter units 
> rather then getting new batteries.  And I know Debian is a slightly 
> different OS in that it doesn't really "do" the vendor binaries.  Is 
> there something that is well supported and easily installed under Debian 
> that I can use.  Years ago I purchased a Belkin UPS and found out later 
> one that the binaries don't work with all the UPS and linux combinations 
> -- any one want to guess what side of that line I fell on?
>
> So -- what's a working combination of UPS and software?  What to avoid?

I have a Back-UPS LS 500 that uses the Debian apcupsd package.
It gets excellent support: http://www.apcupsd.org/

It also is a need of a new battery. And getting that in Oaxaca, Mexico 
is quite another story.

Hugo