From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 15 12:06:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA02014 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:06:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guardian.fortress.org (fortress.org [199.84.158.128]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA02009 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by guardian.fortress.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01300; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:05:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:05:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Webster Reply-To: andrew@pubnix.net To: John Utz cc: port-i386@netbsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APC ups monitor? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, John Utz wrote: > Hi gang; > > 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. The folks at APC also sell the *spec* on the communication protocol used between the UPS and the PC. For $50 and a signed N.D.A., they will send you a book describing how it works. All you have to do is distribute the binaries of the S.W. and you are perfectly legit. Andrew Webster - andrew@pubnix.net - http://www.pubnix.net PubNIX Montreal - Connected to the world - Branche au monde 514-990-5911 - P.O. Box 147, Cote St-Luc, Quebec, H4V 2Y3