From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 19 10:23:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01180 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:23:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhub.ainet.com (mailhub.ainet.com [204.30.40.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01154 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:23:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmscott@ainet.com) Received: from ainet.com (root@ainet.com [204.30.40.6]) by mailhub.ainet.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA12694; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmscott@ainet.com) Received: from perl.ainet.com by ainet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09166; Mon, 19 Jan 98 10:28:54 PST Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980119102338.007f9680@mail.ainet.com> X-Sender: jmscott@mail.ainet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:23:38 -0800 To: Calin Andrian , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Joseph M. Scott" Subject: Re: APC Back UPS monitor In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I'd be interested, I was almost at the same point of just about writing my own :-) If it ends up somewhere please let me know, I'd like to test it out. Thanks... Joseph Scott jmscott@ainet.com At 05:08 PM 1/19/98 +0200, Calin Andrian wrote: >Hi ! > >I searched all over the place for a monitoring package for APC backups and >did not find any. Finally I wrote a small driver and a monitoring daemon, >with good results. > >I didn't use the sio driver because it seems (maybe I'm wrong) that once >you successfully open the tty port, both DTR and RTS go high, causing the >(dumb) backups to immediately shut down. > >My package monitors the line-fail status and shuts down the system and the >UPS if the line is out for more than you-name-it seconds. > >How could I make it public ? >(I mean if anybody is interested) > >Calin > > >