From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 15 10:05:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23493 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pulm1.accessone.com (root@pulm1.accessone.com [198.68.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23488 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atvideo.com (quad.atvideo.com) by pulm1.accessone.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23679; Mon, 15 Jul 96 10:06:25 PDT Received: from localhost (jutz@localhost) by atvideo.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA02196; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:07:49 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:07:48 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: port-i386@netbsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: APC ups monitor? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi gang; The fileserver that i mentioned in my last missive has been undergoing massive spontaneous reboots periodically for some time now ( thus, the unwarranted obssesions with NT on the part of 92% of the staff ) we popped a ups on the thing, and it helped matters *alot* ( redmond washington is going thru a major industrial growth spurt, and we are in a low budget industrial park ). In spite of buying the ups, the systems failures have started again ( yes, it may be a hardware problem, but it is the server, and before i go into partswap mode, i would like to see if we are still getting glitched ). The folks at APC *sell* monitor software for there ups. Has anybody had any experience hacking up a perlscript ( or whatever ) that visits the serial port and listens to what the ups has to say? The APC-ups software only comes for NT, AS/400, vines, netware, etc, so buying the software is out of the question. it would be nice to get something smart enuf to halt the machine, but i would be ecstatic just to get something that announces a power glitch, so i can log the dang thing. thanks! john