<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello! David Vincent wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:48BFE85D.3090900@sleepdeprived.ca" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Gilles Gravier wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi! OK... yesterday there was a power failure due to a storm... so I decided to sit in front of the ubuntu server and watch if everything was OK. I noticed that by default, the power management recognizes the USB-attached UPS... and gives me indications as to what the UPS power level is... And in the settings, I can configure it so that it shuts down when UPS power level is beyond a certain point (LOW or CRITICAL). Well... this doesn't happen. It doesn't trigger its own shutdown. But the power status applet dies... Bug? Did I miss something? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I've got two APC UPSes, a Back-UPS 650 ES and a 725, both attach with USB. I had the same problem and eventually looked up "apcupsd", installed and configured it and now everything works fine. "nut" is another alternative, I've used that to talk to another serial-attached Belkin UPS. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/apcupsd">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/apcupsd</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=114748">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=114748</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UPSwithNUT">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UPSwithNUT</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://keystoneit.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/network-ups-tools-nut-on-ubuntu/">http://keystoneit.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/network-ups-tools-nut-on-ubuntu/</a> hth -d </pre> </blockquote> Yep. APCUPSD does the trick... but I would have prefered not having to add anything else. Then again, I like the monitoring features of apcupsd. :) Gilles </body> </html>