Re: UPS Advice

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:57:11 -0000 (GMT)
"Andrew Ball" <aball%students.prairiestate.edu@localhost> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
>     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?
> 
I've used APC units with 4.0 and -current.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb