I use the powstatd package with my APC BackUPS 500. The real advantage
that it offers is that you can run "powstatd -t" and see what signals
the UPS sends.
It's also a good idea when testing the UPS to *not* plug the computer
into the UPS. Instead, just plug in a lamp into the UPS.
Another adva
2 or 3 years ago I struggled long and hard with an APC UPS on a Linux
system. I finally gave up in disgust and replaced it.
> I have some more info, and it's pretty weird. APC says, and my
> experience seems to confirm it, that you need a different serial cable
> for Unixy systems than Windows.
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> If I had one of those SNMP modules here I'd whip together a script,
> but my APC is directly attached using a serial cable.
>
> Regards,
Ours is double connected, now that I think of it.
AS/400 on the serial side, and the SNMP board handles the rest
I use the powstatd package with by APC BackUPS 500. The real advantage
that it offers is that you can run "powstatd -t" and see what signals
the UPS sends.
It's also a good idea when testing the UPS to *not* plug the computer
into the UPS. Instead, just plug in a lamp into the UPS.
Another adv
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:02:55PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I have some more info, and it's pretty weird. APC says, and my
> experience seems to confirm it, that you need a different serial cable
> for Unixy systems than Windows. And if you want to dual boot, well,
> that's just too bad.
>
>
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:17:42AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> > Grab the MIB and roll your own tool using, for example, perl +
> > Net:SNMP
> >
> > I have the MIB somewhere (or know someone who does :-) if you need it.
>
> Now that's even harder t
Ross Boylan said:
> I have some more info, and it's pretty weird. APC says, and my
> experience seems to confirm it, that you need a different serial cable for
> Unixy systems than Windows. And if you want to dual boot, well, that's
> just too bad.
I remember a similar problem on a BackUPS pro I
I have some more info, and it's pretty weird. APC says, and my
experience seems to confirm it, that you need a different serial cable
for Unixy systems than Windows. And if you want to dual boot, well,
that's just too bad.
Unix, they say, is putting a voltage on a pin that the UPS detects and
ta
Quoting Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> Messages only go from the UPS to the computer... but the UPS clearly
> receives something FROM the computer, which affects its LED... and
> you're supposed to use XON/XOFF ("software") flow control.
>
> My guess is that the UPS is using the hardware flo
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:08:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I disconnected the serial cable from the UPS to the PC, and apt-get
> remove apcupsd. Now when I pull the UPS plug from the wall the
> computer keeps going. Progress, though of course it no longer has a
> way of knowing the power has
Take a look at http://www.tripplite.com/
I'm using a couple of theirs, and they work 'real good.' I had the same
problem with APC: plug in the serial cable, and the power goes off. The
tripplites don't do that, but their monitoring software is a bit of a
resource hog.
--
Glenn English
[EMAIL PRO
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote:
> I had a couple APC units with the SNMP cards, used APC Network shutdown
> on the systems, worked pretty well. only downside was tryin to get
> java workin on some of the more obscure platforms(AIX 4.3, Solaris 2.5-2.6,
> Tru64). On debian and redhat it was a snap
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Grab the MIB and roll your own tool using, for example, perl +
> Net:SNMP
>
> I have the MIB somewhere (or know someone who does :-) if you need it.
Now that's even harder than putting up with their crappy software!
I used snmpwalk once to grab the i
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:37:12PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote:
>
> > Have you tried APC's powerchute? I'm not sure about their recent versions
> > but have read one or 2 complaints in the past that they don't work on
> > Debian. I keep an older version around whic
I am seeing something similar (but no LSR safety check message)
sometimes on my SuSE 7.1 system. Sometimes it does a system shutdown
5 seconds after the power fail. Other times it works fine.
I had been attributing it to my abusing the UPS by holding the off
switch down to keep the TV powered up
Mike Dresser said:
> Last I checked, nut and apcupsd didn't support talking to it via network,
> so I'm stuck with using powerchute.
I had a couple APC units with the SNMP cards, used APC Network shutdown
on the systems, worked pretty well. only downside was tryin to get
java workin on some of t
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Thanks for the other tips. APC currently says Debian is not one of
> their (semi)supported systems.
And neither is Windows 95/98. :)
I tried to get APC to fix their security holes in PowerChute Plus, they
denied there was a problem.
As well, the softwa
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote:
> Have you tried APC's powerchute? I'm not sure about their recent versions
> but have read one or 2 complaints in the past that they don't work on
> Debian. I keep an older version around which works fine on debian 2.2
> and 3.0 just incase I need to test. I put i
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:22:51PM -0800, nate wrote:
> Ross Boylan said:
> > My UPS, an APC BackUPS 650, seems ineffective under Linux. Originally I
> > thought this was because it could not cope with the load, but it works OK
> > under MS-Windows.
> >
> > That is, when I pull the cord from the w
I disconnected the serial cable from the UPS to the PC, and apt-get
remove apcupsd. Now when I pull the UPS plug from the wall the
computer keeps going. Progress, though of course it no longer has a
way of knowing the power has failed.
When the system was on with the cable connected the green LE
Ross Boylan said:
> My UPS, an APC BackUPS 650, seems ineffective under Linux. Originally I
> thought this was because it could not cope with the load, but it works OK
> under MS-Windows.
>
> That is, when I pull the cord from the wall under Windows I get an alert
> the UPS is on battery. When I
My UPS, an APC BackUPS 650, seems ineffective under Linux. Originally
I thought this was because it could not cope with the load, but it
works OK under MS-Windows.
That is, when I pull the cord from the wall under Windows I get an
alert the UPS is on battery. When I do the same under Linux, the
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