http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557452 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:37:04 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:37:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22636151 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22636151 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:05:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22631671
If youre running SNMP monitoring, you can set it to alert if the status value =1 (online) 4(i think)(on battery)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22631671 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:21:25 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22626191 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22626191 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:10:02 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22625359 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22625359 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:58:36 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22624473
Or you may be able to use a script to "screen scrape" its web interface to pull out information if SNMP is not available, or the information is not easily locatable within SNMP.

I use both methods with some of my gear.

Otherwise, the canary idea is pretty much fool proof. If you can no longer ping it theres only a very limited number of things that can be wrong.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22624473 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:59:29 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22558176 said by mejimbo:

I know some UPS models have USB communication ability and with the proper software, I might be able to use one of these, but is there a stand along piece of hardware for this?
Get a management card for an apc smartups, and email alert is one of the options.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22558176 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:45:42 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557837 a ups monitoring pakage. look here »www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/3.0/ha/ups.php
you can also send a mail ore sms via script if a ups alarm is detected.
Thats how i do it ...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557837 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:58:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557717 said by AnOldDog :

... all day at the base of a tower makes AnonDog AnOldDog...

We use something called a "Canary". It is a simple router, switch, or WiFi AP that you run at a site and you don't provide it with battery backup.

Ping it, until it quits and you know that there is no power at that site, if you can still ping the stuff on backup power.

-m-
We have a winner! So simple, but yet I didn't think of it... We already have a monitoring system that pings the network, adding this device will be easy. I try to make things to complicated sometimes. Thanks!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557717 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:20:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557624 They have a few different models. The one I purchased has 8 outputs and 8 inputs. It reads them and can email you upon a change.
I was going to take a 5V or so transformer plug it into the non UPS side. Then plug the device into the back up side. When the power goes out, that 5V goes to 0 and sends you an email. CAn be made pretty cheap, roughly 100 bucks plus you then have some controls through it to aswell as access through a web browser]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557624 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:58:18 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557500
We use something called a "Canary". It is a simple router, switch, or WiFi AP that you run at a site and you don't provide it with battery backup.

Ping it, until it quits and you know that there is no power at that site, if you can still ping the stuff on backup power.

-m-]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557500 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:33:26 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557452
Does this exist? I want cheap and easy, nothing fancy.

I know some UPS models have USB communication ability and with the proper software, I might be able to use one of these, but is there a stand along piece of hardware for this? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Power-loss-notification-by-email-22557452 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:22:10 EDT