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MGE looks better, but I've not tried it yet.

One issue I have not seen dealt with is the case where the the UPS tells the
Linux Appliance to shutdown and then power is returned.  The Linux Appliance
continues to shutdown and sits there waiting to be powered down.

What is needed is a way to get the UPS to actually remove power from the
Linux Appliance so that when power resumes it actually comes back up.

The ONLY situation which works is to hope for a power disruption longer than
the UPS battery lasts or use the UPS only as a temporary power source while
backup power is brought online.  In this case the UPS doesn't need to talk
to the Linux Appliance at all.

> Otherwise, you'd have to get some sort of battery charge monitoring
> script to work across the serial connection (would probably vary vendor
> to vendor, thus the lack of inclusion of a set way to do it from us),
> and initiate a "shutdown -h now" if the battery is below your threshold
> charge level...

Have a look at what MGE have to offer, however everyone seems to be moving
towards using USB instead of serial and I'm under the impression that the
USB socket on Cobalt Linux Appliances is just there for show ... its not
actually supported ... or its intended for future use.

Cheers,  Malcolm