[CentOS] Power-outage

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> Robert Heller wrote:
>> At Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:26:10 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list
>> <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a CentOS-5.6 remote server in a house in Italy,
>>>> where there are occasional thunder-storms.
>>>>
>>>> There was one yesterday, when the electricity
>>>> went off 3 times, for a second or so on each occasion.
<snip>
>> With a non-Linux compatable UPS, you can use a old analog serial modem
<snip>
> Another solution could be cheap router with IP not pluged into UPS. If
> server can not ping that IP, you would shut it down, via script.

*shrug* I think all the UPSs I've seen for consumers in the last five
years seem to have a USB port to go to the computer. That, and apcupsd,
are all you need.

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