Network Infrastructure,  personal

New UPS

I just picked up one of those Geek Squad branded UPSs.  It’s nice.  The USB interface was picked right up by my Mac.  I then swapped it into my XP box and loaded up the software that it came with.  It’s flashy and gives me all the stats for the UPS.  I’ll miss my old APC UPS, but this one is way, way better, both in ratings and hopefully in the fact that it doesn’t kill any of my boxes when it blows…  It doesn’t have a network interface though, so I have it going into a FreeBSD box.  If the box detects a power outage on the UPS then it SSH’s into all my other *nix boxen and sets off scripts to power them down.  The Windows box gets no love here.  But then, it barely gets used any more and will likely get converted to a VM soon anyway…