Subj : Re: UPS homelab setup
To   : Mark Hofmann
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Fri Sep 30 2022 06:39:00

-=> Mark Hofmann wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 KW> I'm wondering if there's a way to have either the Proxmox system or the
 KW> Synology system connected to the UPS and shut down the other one?

 MH> I think APC makes software that does that, but likely wants to charge
 MH> for it. One UPS power failure can trigger an event to do multiple
 MH> things.


Charles mentioned Network UPS Tools, it appears that Synology supports it - 
in fact, it may be using it already for its own network shutdown feature - 
one Synology can shut down multiple units.

With that, I can leave the UPS plugged into Synology and run the nut-client 
on my Proxmox server.

 MH> I never got that fancy with my setup and I have (10) APC UPS units over
 MH> here. If my power it out long enough for them to go out, everything
 MH> just powers off immediately.  I would try and do a clean shutdown, but
 MH> even if it goes down hard I have not had issues with my ESXi
 MH> server/VMs.  Worst case, I could restore things.

Hey, if you have 10 UPSes, why not?   :)


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