Dear Toasters,
Can anyone please give me some tips on APC-UPS monitoring.
I have many APC Smart UPS'es and i use them to protect my File Servers. In the past when we used Sun hardware, we used to use the "Powerchute" software from APC. Now APC needs you to run some sort of Windows-box to be able to monitor all your machines.
I heard about apcupsd on another list and gave that a shot and it seems to do a pretty decent job when it comes to linux.
To protect my NetApp's, i am planning to use apcupsd on a linux machine and then try and somehow "correctly" use it to shutdown the netapp. I need to be careful about shutting down the netapp ONLY when the power is down and not every time the linux machine needs to be brought down.(so maybe an rc script WONT work)
Any ideas ? Comments ?
Thanks,
/dev/null
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