[WinMac] Re: UPS support [was Choosing a WinMac server]


Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:06:19 -0500


        Both APC <http://www.apcc.com> and Tripp-Lite have Mac
software. And APC
even has a UPS that works off the USB port - On a win95 box!

        If you also have an NT box on the LAN, then you can monitor the UPS
connected to it and then issue an SNMP trap to initiate a remote shutdown
script on the Mac, yada yada yada...

At 05:09 PM 5/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>ASIP 6 sounds like a good way to go for a small LAN except that no UPS's I
>know of come with software for closing down a Mac OS server and network.
>
>They all seem to support NT tho! Gap in the market, anyone?
>
>Gareth.
>
>> For something that small I'ld suggest AppleShare IP. It's easy to set
>> up and administer and you can buy a client for the Windows computers. It
>> runs everything that you'll need and almost anyone can manage to install
>> and administer it.
>>
>> --On Tuesday, May 25, 1999, 9:35 AM -0500 "G. Jefferson"
>> <Gareth@smarta.com> wrote:r
>>
>>> Given a cozy little LAN of six peer-to-peer machines, three Macs and three
>>> Windows 98's what would list readers choose as a dedicated server, a
>>> Windows NT box, a Unix box or a MacOS X server?

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