Linux – UPS monitoring software for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris

Touch choice #1: You could run a GE supported version of Windows in a small VM, and have it signal the host.

Touch choice #2: If the GE NetPro provides serial signaling in addition to network, it probably wouldn't be too hard to adapt a cable and run the Windows 2008 release of APCUPSD, an open source project.

GE must be slowly backing out of this market, since its web page still sells and advertises both the H/W and S/W but does not support WS2008.

When you have the network management cards, you don't need to run Powerchute. Instead, do the following:

1. Ensure that the two UPSes have Sync Control configured, so that they communicate with each other.
2. Install Powerchute Network Shutdown on each host connected to the UPSes. It will ask you if you're connected to multiple UPSes, and their IP addresses.

Now it's a while (years) since I've tested this setup with devices that only have a single UPS, but my recollection is that the sync control will mean that the UPSes shutdown at the same time, and each UPS will send a signal to PowerChute Network Shutdown to shutdown the server.

Remember to make sure that your host's firewall isn't blocking the PowerChute signals!

Mad props to joeqwerty for jogging my memory.