I have an Ultra 1000VA UPS attached to my Linux server. I used to use the upsmon software that comes with it but on my new system it wont work as I'm using a serial to usb adapter, there's no serial ports on this machine.
Is there a known way to get this to work? I tried apcupsd for kicks but it did not find the ups.
Is there a way to see if the system even sees that connection?
If none of this works, is there alternative ways for me to get the server to do a proper shut down if there's a power failure? Like is there such thing as a device I can plug into the wall and sends a signal via usb that works in Linux? I don't want to buy a whole new ups just for this. At worse I can connect it to the windows machine then have the windows machine tell the server to shutdown. Such program would not be hard to write and since it's on a private local network it would not really be too big of a security issue.
Is there a known way to get this to work? I tried apcupsd for kicks but it did not find the ups.
Is there a way to see if the system even sees that connection?
If none of this works, is there alternative ways for me to get the server to do a proper shut down if there's a power failure? Like is there such thing as a device I can plug into the wall and sends a signal via usb that works in Linux? I don't want to buy a whole new ups just for this. At worse I can connect it to the windows machine then have the windows machine tell the server to shutdown. Such program would not be hard to write and since it's on a private local network it would not really be too big of a security issue.
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