OT: old ups new use

[Walter Vaughan]

GCC Consulting wrote:

>Do any of you or your clients have any older unused UPS' around?
>
>Many times you or your clients will purchase a new UPS rather than just
>replacing the battery. 
>
I (regrettably) just discovered and locally installed a webservice 
called "spiceworks". One of it's totally impressive list of central 
management tools is the ability to manage attached things like UPS's 
from a central location. When I saw how it auto detected all the UPS's 
and their battery lives, I just shook my head in shame for not 
installing it years ago. Of course the ability to see and manage UPS's 
is only 1% of the ability and usefulness of spiceworks.

http://www.spiceworks.com/free-pc-network-inventory-software/

I for one would never ever ever admin a windows domain with out it. You 
could have a domain with only one windows box and the rest esxi servers 
crammed with linux VM's and it still would be worth the setup.