[CentOS] 2 questions re UPS management
Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka at saunalahti.fi
Tue Mar 19 16:14:57 UTC 2013
19.3.2013 16:55, Fred Smith kirjoitti:
> Hi, trying to figure out how the system manages UPS connections. On both
> Centos 5.9 and 6.4, merely plugging in a USB UPS device causes an icon
> to appear in the top panel, and (at least on 5.9, haven't yet tested
> this in 6.4) when the UPS suffers a power failure the system notices
> and after a bit does a clean shutdown.
If you are using the default GNOME desktop, then that's the GNOME Power
Manager: http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-power-manager/
> The question here is: how does this magic all work?
It uses DBus and the UPower service. See: http://upower.freedesktop.org/
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Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka at iki.fi
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