[VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk - UPS drivers for Linux

[Steph Kerman]

Just inspected an APC Power Management installation CD from year 2000.  
It covers Win98, Win2000 and Mac OS 9.04.  The file dates range from 
1995 to 2000.  Would the Unix and Linux versions have predated this?

Steph

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> Years ago, APC published a CD with versions of their
> Powerchute management software for various Unixes and Linux
> (Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, SCO, etc).  It included an RPM
> for Red Hat Linux systems.  They seem to have stopped doing
> that in recent years, though.  So for linux, your best bet is
> probably now apcupsd.  With it you'll be able to schedule alerts
> and unattended shutdowns when power fails and batteries are
> nearly drained, which is what it sounds like you're looking for.
>
> You seemed concerned about system provisioning and capacity
> planning, which makes me curious how much call traffic your
> Asterisk box is handling (and if it's doing a lot of transcoding)
> and what kind of hardware you're running it on.
>
> windmill wrote:
>   
>> Haha! Again it's all quite foreign to me at present, ideally I suppose 
>> I'll have to make the time to determine what is absolutely necessary and 
>> then take the time to learn how to use it. I don't print because 1) I 
>> don't know how and 2) I have the parallel port disabled to free 
>> interrupts for the X100P cards.
>>
>> Mark Rudholm wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> CUPS is Common Unix Printing System, apcupsd is the daemon for APC UPSes.
>>> They're not related to each other.
>>>
>>> If you don't print, you can safely stop cups.
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>>
>>> windmill wrote:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Lee,
>>>>
>>>> I don't have a Linux Desktop on my *boxes but I have seen cups loading 
>>>> at start up, might that be the same thing? My APC RS500 came with 
>>>> Windows software, my other UPSs are all Belkin and I have never yet 
>>>> checked what software comes with them, I'll have to look into this a 
>>>> little more closely. At the moment I use my UPSs to iron out the surges 
>>>> or carry the loads in the majority of outages which generally are around 
>>>> 30 seconds or less. I was asleep a few weeks ago when I heard one UPS 
>>>> beeping, the Windows PC on the APC UPS had shutdown but two *boxes and a 
>>>> second PC as well as my router and network switches were all still alive 
>>>> after a 20 minute outage which I thought was pretty good. The house ELCB 
>>>> had tripped presumably due to a large surge and I was able to reset it 
>>>> as soon as I was aware of it but I don't supposde an outage that long 
>>>> did the batteries in my UPSs any good at all.
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>>> Lee Spenadel wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>>>> Brian,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm no guru myself, but here's the link to the i386 version of the apcups
>>>>> daemon for Linux.  It's an RPM which means you double-click it from the
>>>>> Linux desktop and it will automatically install.  I recently installed it
>>>>> and it's working fine:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=54413&use_mirror=int
>>>>> ernap&filename=apcupsd-3.14.2-1.el4.i386.rpm&68540459
>>>>>
>>>>> Lee
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
>>>>> windmill
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:37 AM
>>>>> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
>>>>> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk
>>>>>
>>>>> Lee,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would love to be able to do that but I don't know enough about Linux. 
>>>>> I know that the UPSs can shutdown my Windows PCs because I have seen it 
>>>>> in practice although I don't have any UPS comms set up at all at 
>>>>> present. On the *boxes all the USB and serial ports are disabled to free 
>>>>> up interrupts otherwise the X100P cards might not work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Brian
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>         
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