Re: UPS Advice

[Wouter Klouwen <dublet%acm.org@localhost>]

Andrew Ball(aball%students.prairiestate.edu@localhost) said 2009.01.28 22:57:11 
+0000:
>     I'm looking for a UPS for a NetBSD host. Ideally I would
> like the UPS to be able to notify the load when AC power is
> lost and especially when the battery charge gets low.
> Ideally the load should be able to tell the UPS once the
> shut-down is complete so that it can switch off its output.
> In a perfect world I would like to be able to configure the
> UPS not to re-power the load until the battery was charged
> again.  This isn't rack mount and 700VA should about cover
> it.  Does anyone have UPS recommendations?

APC UPSes have generally worked for me, both serial and USB with
sysutils/apcupsd.

> Thanks,
>   - Andy Ball
        --Wouter