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

[Mark Rudholm]

The Unix CD did not come with the UPSes, it was a 100$ or 150$ item in
their on-line store.  I begrudged them the fact that they gave away the
Windows version for free, but made me pay for the Solaris version.

I bought my copy in 1997 but I believe it was still available into the
early aughts.  I think I still have it if any of you are interested.  
(I'm not
too concerned about giving it away since it's abandonware and is no
longer otherwise available)

Steph Kerman wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>