From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 22: 0:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9BA37B422 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:00:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3I506k36848; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Christopher Farley" , "Graywane" Cc: Subject: RE: does upsd support BACK-UPS from APC Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:00:05 -0700 Message-ID: <004c01c0c7c4$6f3d9c40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010417113609.A39486@northernbrewer.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christopher >Farley >Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:36 AM >To: Graywane >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: does upsd support BACK-UPS from APC > > >Graywane (graywane@home.com) wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:01:30AM -0700, Hervey Wilson wrote: >> upsd does support the BACK-UPS series although I've had odd things happen >> with it from time to time. On one machine it was setup to wait >90 seconds, >> warn the users, wait 90 more seconds and then shutdown the >machine. However, >> a 1 second brownout caused the UPSs to go to battery and upsd >shutdown the >> machine instantly (which was more than a little annoying). upsd is only supposed to support the SmartUPS, NOT the BackUPS which uses different signalling protocol. But, I've had this happen on smartups and it's annoying too - I expect it's some setting that's wrong. > >It is not clear from the ports description, but I've been told that upsd >is hard-coded to work with European 220v rather than US 120v power. > Yes, this is true. I have a link on my book website to a version modified by Doug White to work with American power levels. >/usr/ports/sysutils/bkupsd works for me. > This is what I use because the server I run this on is behind an APC switcher that doesen't pass the smartups protocol, just simple signalling. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message