You are right, but this software needs to be manually run for the end user to find out what is happening.
What I really want of course is for a visual window to popup whenever there are A/C problems, and whenever the A/C has lost power and the UPS battery is getting low.
It is part of apcupsd. I will look at it and see if I can get it going in CentOS 4.4. Thanks for reminding me of it.
I haven't bothered to play with apcupsd just because I don't need to worry about my power where my boxes live, but on the software note, I tend to find far more usefull to have linux software do something intelligent like send me an email when there's a problem so I can just forward that to my cell phone, and end up notified and able to react wherever I happen to be.
I don't even see popups on the screen of my workstation, much less anything I might need a UPS on. Why would I want windows software behavior under Linux?
Peter
peter wrote:
You are right, but this software needs to be manually run for the end user to find out what is happening.
What I really want of course is for a visual window to popup whenever there are A/C problems, and whenever the A/C has lost power and the UPS battery is getting low.
It is part of apcupsd. I will look at it and see if I can get it going in CentOS 4.4. Thanks for reminding me of it.
I haven't bothered to play with apcupsd just because I don't need to worry about my power where my boxes live, but on the software note, I tend to find far more usefull to have linux software do something intelligent like send me an email when there's a problem so I can just forward that to my cell phone, and end up notified and able to react wherever I happen to be.
That is a nice feature to have.
I don't even see popups on the screen of my workstation, much less anything I might need a UPS on. Why would I want windows software behavior under Linux?
I don't know what you mean by "windows software behavior" but if I am working with the screen in front of me and the A/C power to my UPS goes out or the system needs to shut down because the A/C power has been out and the UPS battery is running out of power to support my continued working, I like to experience some sort of notification when these things are happening. Since I am staring at my screen, a visual notification seems justified to me. If that seems unusual to you then I can only surmise that you use your computer differently than I do. Nonetheless, since it's each to their own, a visual notification is what I would like to alert me to what is happening.
Quoting Edward Diener eldiener@tropicsoft.com:
I don't know what you mean by "windows software behavior" but if I am working with the screen in front of me and the A/C power to my UPS goes out or the system needs to shut down because the A/C power has been out and the UPS battery is running out of power to support my continued working, I like to experience some sort of notification when these things are happening. Since I am staring at my screen, a visual notification seems justified to me. If that seems unusual to you then I can only surmise that you use your computer differently than I do. Nonetheless, since it's each to their own, a visual notification is what I would like to alert me to what is happening.
What about that annoying periodic beeping from the UPS when the power is lost? The entire house all the sudden dark and quiet. I don't know. Usually there's so much indications that power was lost around me. The windows popping up on the screen just to tell me something my senses already detected is, well, annoying. But that is only my personal preference. I guess. However, it would be nice to have power meter for battery in the tray, like the one for laptop battery.
The warnning couple of minutes before machine starts to execute shutdown sequence (or with FC6 and RHEL5/CentOS5 save to disk) is nice thing to have. But that part is relatively easy to implement with apcupsd.
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Quoting Edward Diener eldiener@tropicsoft.com:
I don't know what you mean by "windows software behavior" but if I am working with the screen in front of me and the A/C power to my UPS goes out or the system needs to shut down because the A/C power has been out and the UPS battery is running out of power to support my continued working, I like to experience some sort of notification when these things are happening. Since I am staring at my screen, a visual notification seems justified to me. If that seems unusual to you then I can only surmise that you use your computer differently than I do. Nonetheless, since it's each to their own, a visual notification is what I would like to alert me to what is happening.
What about that annoying periodic beeping from the UPS when the power is lost? The entire house all the sudden dark and quiet. I don't know. Usually there's so much indications that power was lost around me. The windows popping up on the screen just to tell me something my senses already detected is, well, annoying. But that is only my personal preference. I guess. However, it would be nice to have power meter for battery in the tray, like the one for laptop battery.
Sometimes one has their ears blocked to noise when they work. Other indications do not make the necessary impact on someone like me, especially as I use natural light form a window during daylight.
The warnning couple of minutes before machine starts to execute shutdown sequence (or with FC6 and RHEL5/CentOS5 save to disk) is nice thing to have. But that part is relatively easy to implement with apcupsd.
I am considering writing a program for myself also, since I am a programmer. But if something already exists which works well, I will use that.
Quoting Edward Diener eldiener@tropicsoft.com:
I am considering writing a program for myself also, since I am a programmer. But if something already exists which works well, I will use that.
Looking at the apcupsd config files, you probably want to enable ANNOY stuff in /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf, and than create onbattery (power lost, running on battery) and annoyme (I'm gonna shut down soon) scripts in /etc/apcupsd that will display popup windows. Default action from apccontrol file will be also executed after your script unless you exit from the script with exit code 99. See /etc/apcupsd/apccontrol for details. You probably want to background the process that opens popup window so that your scripts exit right away (instead of waiting for user to close popup).
Edward Diener spake the following on 12/29/2006 7:29 AM:
peter wrote:
You are right, but this software needs to be manually run for the end user to find out what is happening.
What I really want of course is for a visual window to popup whenever there are A/C problems, and whenever the A/C has lost power and the UPS battery is getting low.
It is part of apcupsd. I will look at it and see if I can get it going in CentOS 4.4. Thanks for reminding me of it.
I haven't bothered to play with apcupsd just because I don't need to worry about my power where my boxes live, but on the software note, I tend to find far more usefull to have linux software do something intelligent like send me an email when there's a problem so I can just forward that to my cell phone, and end up notified and able to react wherever I happen to be.
That is a nice feature to have.
I don't even see popups on the screen of my workstation, much less anything I might need a UPS on. Why would I want windows software behavior under Linux?
I don't know what you mean by "windows software behavior" but if I am working with the screen in front of me and the A/C power to my UPS goes out or the system needs to shut down because the A/C power has been out and the UPS battery is running out of power to support my continued working, I like to experience some sort of notification when these things are happening. Since I am staring at my screen, a visual notification seems justified to me. If that seems unusual to you then I can only surmise that you use your computer differently than I do. Nonetheless, since it's each to their own, a visual notification is what I would like to alert me to what is happening.
You always have the constant beeping from the UPS, and the sound of the inverters humming. Don't depend on the software to be real accurate on the time remaining, as it is an estimate, and is not always very accurate. I usually close what I am doing , saving if needed, as soon as I hear the damn thing.. I will give it a minute or two, as the building I am in right now has many short (5 to 10 second) sags every day.
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