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Andrew Daviel (andrew@andrew.triumf.ca)
Fri, 7 May 1999 18:27:45 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Shane Wegner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I checked out the APC site and had a talk with some people there and
> decided that they were not the way to go. Everything is proprietary and
> they won't even tell you how to talk to it.
Idiots!
The cheaper, dumb, ones are controllable from the serial port with
standard software and a simple cable. They do document this (somewhere I
have a manual).
There are several packages listed in the UPS-HOWTO (often in
/usr/doc/HOWTO) to talk to smart APC:
apcupsd-2.8.tar.gz
apcd-0.5.tar.gz
smupsd-0.9-1.i386.rpm
genpower-1.0.1.tgz
and some for Best:
checkups.tar
bestups-0.9.tar.gz
though I concur that the HOWTO also says "BEST fully documents the smart
mode" etc.
(Alpha Power - Burnaby, I think - make some nice larger units. I got one
going on Irix (no "shutdown -k" :-( ) powering 2 SGIs, an NT, and scads
of SCSI disks, tapes etc. True sine wave, 5kW or something. Actually, I
shouldn't boast too much as it's not
working quite right, but with dozens of users running lots of jobs,
tinkering with the UPS is not too popular...)
Andrew Daviel
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