UPS comments

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:02 -0700, Bret Stern wrote:
> I am thinking of adding a UPS (APC Back-UPS Pro 650) to one
> of my servers because i'm bored.
>  
> Is the apcupsd daemon the common solution for monitoring the UPS,
> or is there a canned rpm with Fedora 6 which will handle a simple
> controlled shutdown?

"nut" (network UPS tools) has a bunch of stuff.  Have a looksee at the
NUT home page:

	http://www.networkupstools.org/

And you can install the RPMs via:

	yum install nut
	yum install nut-client

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