From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 19 11:56:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11294 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from didda.est.is (root@didda.est.is [194.144.208.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11136 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:54:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from totii@est.is) Received: from est.is (totii@didda.est.is [192.168.255.1]) by didda.est.is (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA02088; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:32:02 GMT (envelope-from totii@est.is) Message-ID: <34C3AA32.E3BB5A45@est.is> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:32:02 +0000 From: Thordur Ivarsson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Calin Andrian CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APC Back UPS monitor References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 I have here UPS that is not using intelligent communications and would like to see what you have there, my ups sends only make or break signals and wants make or break signals to shut down, many of the APC needs serial stream for controlling and monitoring. My ups is from Fairstone. -- Þórður Ívarsson Thordur Ivarsson Rafeindavirki Electronic technician Norðurgötu 30 Nordurgotu 30 Box 309 Box 309 602 Akureyri 602 Akureyri Ísland Iceland --------------------------------------------- FreeBSD has good features, Some others are full of unwanted features! ---------------------------------------------