[ale] APC UPS and linux

[Trey Sizemore]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:36:44 -0500
danverde <danverde at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 30 December 2006 6:52 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > I've recently purchased an APC UPS (BackUPS XS 1500) for use with a
> > few servers I have here at home and a desktop.  I understand
> > there's an apcupsd package that can be installed.
> >
> > I assume I can just plug the power cords of the machines into the
> > UPS, hook the USP cable from the UPS to one of the machines, and
> > then install apcupsd on that machine, correct?
> >
> > Is there any sort of GUI for monitoring?
> 
> I have been using a 1500 for a while now.  It works great with
> apcupsd.
> 
> gapcmon is the gui.
> 
> http://gapcmon.sourceforge.net/
> 
> You will have to make sure that you get the config files for apcupsd
> setup correctly.  
> 
> be sure and set:
> UPSCABLE usb
> 
> and
> 
> UPSTYPE usb
> DEVICE  # this is blank
> 
> 
> 
> Dan

Cool, thanks!  

-- 
Cheers,
Trey
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