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Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:02:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: seeking recommendation: UPS for Freebsd To: Robert Huff Cc: questions@freebsd.org References: <25649.61743.236383.879770@jerusalem.litteratus.org> From: Dan Langille Message-ID: <4c146ffd-76ef-4186-79cd-4b8496e8c2ac@langille.org> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:02:44 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.16; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 PostboxApp/7.0.60 List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <25649.61743.236383.879770@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.09 / 15.00]; DWL_DNSWL_LOW(-1.00)[messagingengine.com:dkim]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.996]; 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(This isn't > the only UPS; it's just the only one causiong problems right now.) > Budget is not unlimited, so I'm not looking for anything fancy; > just something that will (with replacement batteries) just do its job > for the next 15+ years. > And - of course - works with software running on FreeGSD. (I use > apcupsd, and have seen nut used elsewhere.) > I'm now a fan of Eaton products after it was recommended. I use it with NUT. * https://dan.langille.org/2020/09/07/monitoring-your-ups-using-nut-on-freebsd/ * https://dan.langille.org/2020/09/10/nut-testing-the-shutdown-mechanism/ * https://dan.langille.org/2020/09/13/nut-testing-shutdown-and-startup/ Hope that helps. -- Dan Langille dan@langille.org : https://langille.org/