How-To: Network your UPS {Engadget}

May 23rd 2007 8:51AM The issue isn't how to run lots of computers on one UPS, it's how to cleanly shutdown systems on "dumb" UPS without serial/USB/Network connectivity. For example, I may have a mediaPC running on an APC UPC without signaling capabilities, and I may have a nice, server grade UPS in the basement for my file server/networking software, when the power goes out, everything stays on (server, networking, mediaPC), but the server can shut down cleanly while on battery, the mediaPC will simply wait to run out of power and die. With this setup, the mediaPC could detect a power problem and shut itself down.