Re: UPS Advice

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Diana Eichert wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Stephen Borrill wrote:
>
> > I use apcupsd in network master mode which, as there is a Windows port too, 
> > means I can control a whole heterogenous server farm connected to a single 
> > UPS from a NetBSD machine.
> >
> > --
> > Stephen
>
> So I ought to be able to run apcupsd on a VMware server host system
> and have the Virtual machines get UPS info from it?

Yes, that's sound like a cool way of using it (though I'd expect more 
virtualisation solutions to shutdown VMs anyway). You'd want to ensure 
that your VMs shutdown before the host though :-)

--
Stephen