And FYI, HP has stopped selling UPS's, so you may HAVE to use another 
vendor, although I can source pretty  modern HP UPS's off the secondary 
market, and I have new battery packs (not intended as a PLUG).

I, too, have been impressed by what I've seen from APC.  They appear to be 
serious about providing good products and service, although you'll spend 
for it.

John Lee
Vaske Computer Solutions



At 07:33 AM 12/18/06 -0800, Donna Hofmeister wrote:
>as long as the ups has enough 'oooomph' to drive what's going to be 
>attached, i guess one ups isn't all that different from another. since i 
>was asking about ups monitoring awhile back, now seems like a good time to 
>provide an update.... i got a network management card from <plug> apc 
></plug> and have been testing mpe's ability to talk to it (and the ups as 
>well) via snmp.  works like a champ :-)  apc's mibs provide the 
>information that i need to know -- in particular percentage of batteries 
>left and amount of time left.  when i detect that the ups has switched to 
>battery power, i start watching those two values in particular.  either 
>gets too low (my definition of 'too low' btw) and i can gracefully 
>shutdown the system (take down background processes) and even halt the 
>system (via the shutdown command). i don't know that apc is the only 
>player in town for this (providing ups status via snmp) but if a goal is 
>to be able to shutdown your mpe system(s) before the battery gives out, 
>you may want to evaluate what the ups' vendor provides in that 
>area.      - d ps, if you a copy of the scripts/jobs for the ups 
>monitoring, let me know. --- Donna Hofmeister, HP-CSA Sr. System 
>Programmer dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com 925-210-6631 Longs Drug 
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>UPS (Product# A2998A). Seems the UPS went south (it's not a battery issue, 
>although the batteries are nearing their EOL). Procurement proposed 
>replacing the above UPS with an HP R3000XR and a couple of 'Extended 
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