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From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Datashield UPS w/monitor facility?
Keywords: UPS UNIX power monitoring
Message-ID: <570@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 90 13:51:05 GMT
References: <6770@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
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In article <6770@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes:
* Has anyone connected the Datashield Turbo/2 UPS to their 386 UNIX box? It
* has an option that is supposed to send a signal (via RS-232 connection??)
* back to your UNIX box so it can issue a shutdown command after the UPS
* notices a power loss.
* 
* I'd like to hear from anyone who has connected the Datashield Turbo/2 or
* any other UPS with this feature to their computer...todd
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Hummmm....  can we make this question a little broader?
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Has anyone used any UPS with a warning-to-the-system feature?
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...particularly one that does it via RS-232 (it seems some do it via
Ethernet!)?
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When an alert happens, and the system presumably does a shutdown, what
happens to uucp, etc. that happens to be running at that time?
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What about multi-CPU setups, as on a LAN, on a COMMON UPS?
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regardz,
Ken