J.A. de Vries wrote:
Hi,
Due to power outages at my home I want to buy an UPS for my SOHO server.
For my needs something between 700 and 1000VA should be enough. I'd like
to have auto shutdown and powerup and some monitoring facilities too.
After some Googling I am thinking of buying either an APC Smart-UPS 750
or a MGE Evolution 850. As far as I know APC is the "big brand" and it
certainly is the one that is the easiest to get around here. Their
Powerchute software seems to support Linux as well.
By all means go with APC.
Their Powerchute software is cr*p because it only runs on M$ OS, but the
Linux support is superb, mainly because of one guy: Adam Kropelin who
maintains the apcupsd package.
That said, Debian is hanging back here, because they have both Etch and
Sid to version 3.12.4 while the available version is already on 3.13.12.
The home site is: http://www.apcupsd.com/
They have a very active mailing list.
What I would do if I were you is subscribe to the mailing list and ask
about the APC Smart-UPS 750 and *then* buy.
I have an Back-UPS LS 500 and have apcupsd 3.13.2 (22 February 2006)
installed from upstream.
I wrote some monitoring applets that give me on the second info as to
the status of the UPS:
http://www.geocities.com/hugovanwoerkom/d_tstime.jpeg
The first parameter shown is 'TIME_LEFT', the minutes that the system
would run on battery if the power would be cut (which happens often
here). That variable varies with what the CPU is doing at the moment.
The main problem with APC is where to get their batteries. A battery
last about 3 years.
HTH
Hugo
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