USB APC UPS ? and now

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vso1

I recieved a USB APC ups, of course its windows only software and I know that the UPS is supported within FreeBSD .

due the fact the battery died .. I never got round to test/use it properly meaning:
- shutdown BSD on low power (it is only intended to save my NAS data)
- setup a remote connection (ssh) and shutdown ESX machine
- how to find out how much "time" is remaining to stay alive (battery time)
- do some UPS maintance (battery test)
- read out values

Now I recieved a car battery, thing seems to work again now how to test ..
I need examples (pointers) the manual is then a lot more clear then starting at "random"

ps I use FreeBSD 8.0 (fresh install) what port do I need to install ? that allows me to do these things.
 
vso1 said:
I recieved a USB APC ups, of course its windows only software and I know that the UPS is supported within FreeBSD .

due the fact the battery died .. I never got round to test/use it properly meaning:
- shutdown BSD on low power (it is only intended to save my NAS data)
- setup a remote connection (ssh) and shutdown ESX machine
- how to find out how much "time" is remaining to stay alive (battery time)
- do some UPS maintance (battery test)
- read out values

Now I recieved a car battery, thing seems to work again now how to test ..
I need examples (pointers) the manual is then a lot more clear then starting at "random"

ps I use FreeBSD 8.0 (fresh install) what port do I need to install ? that allows me to do these things.
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