FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs

[Derek Ragona]

At 11:15 AM 8/25/2007, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am going to get a UPS device for my home freebsd gateway/router and
>wonder if there is anything that you would recommend? At work I use APC
>units and there is a dedicated software to manage it (apcupsd). Not sure if
>that's the case with other manufacturers? I'd like to get something that
>could be managed by software and at the some time not too expensive... you
>know home budget...erm...
>
>Well, many thanks for all recommendations!
>
>
>Zbigniew Szalbot

I use nut from the ports.  I have had no problem with UPS's that have a 
serial interface.  Some USB interfaces work, some do not.  So I would use a 
UPS with a seral interface assuming you have a free serial port on the server.

         -Derek


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