On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 05:56:47AM -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > You'll either need an APC ShareUPS which is basically a serial splitter > that does smart signaling to one server for UPS monitoring and dumb > signaling to the rest of the servers for shutdown ... OR ... You can get > a UPS that has SNMP capabilities that all your servers can monitor. There are a few open source projects out there that do distributed UPS management - one server listens for the UPS events and then the other clients act based on the information they get from that server. http://us1.networkupstools.org/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/inpowerd/ ../Ed > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Nesbitt > Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:07 PM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: APC2200 and Linux > > On Saturday 02 April 2005 8:38 pm, Robert Canary wrote: > > I am trying to figure out how to install and > > configure PowerChute on a Redhat system and use it > > to notify other servers(on the same ups) to > > shutdown. APCs documentation is terrible (of what > > I have found). The installatoin gose fine. But > > how do I get to the control panels, and set up > > other machines to be a slave? > > > > I see no way to configure the PowerChute or > > control it. This is really aggravating, as I was > > needing to have this done before Sun 12(noon) > > (trying to go on vacation). And I have been > > studying on this for 4 days already. > > > > What is everyone using to control an APC > > Master/Slave PC? > > > > thanks in advance > > > > -- > > robert canary > > system services > > OCDirect.Net > > (270)298-9331 (o) > > Not sure about that model, but usually you'll need to connect to the ups > via > the serial connection to set it up. Even if it has a web interface, > you'll > probably need to first connect via telnet on a serial line. > > We have a APC Symmetra and I use the powerchute 'network shutdown' > software. > IIRC, after initial set up of the UPS, I can install the PowerChute > software > on a server, then go to the web interface to the UPS (or telnet in) and > tell > it to connect to and add the IP address of the server to the list of > systems > to notify. However, the different models may use different iterations of > > PowerChute. > > -- > Pete Nesbitt, rhce > www.linux1.ca -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
