From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 19 17: 5:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A64037B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:05:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from as9-2-1.bi.s.bonet.se (as9-2-1.bi.s.bonet.se [217.215.7.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F8043ED8 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:05:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: by as9-2-1.bi.s.bonet.se (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 559B749697D; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 02:05:25 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E2B4B52.3040702@intersonic.se> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 02:05:22 +0100 From: Per olof Ljungmark Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021202 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: Mark , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shutdown for APC Back-UPS 350 CS References: <3.0.5.32.20030119185811.011becd0@mail.sage-one.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-102.3 required=5.7 tests=NOSPAM_INC,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,USER_IN_WHITELIST, X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: X-Sanitizer: Advosys mail filter Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > To do what you want requires a UPS with "SmartUPS" to "talk" to your > system. You have what is referred to as a "dumb UPS". I use SmartUPSes on > "master" machines to tell the "slave" machines when to shut down and other > instructions. The SmartUPSes will carry on an exchange with the machine, > but the dumb ones will not. The slaves are attached to the dumb UPSes for > continuations of power, but the SmartUPS tells each slave what to do and > when to shut down. Each slave must have an apcupsd daemon installed, > running and configured to communicate with the master over the network for > this to work. But why then supply a cable for use between the 350CS and the computer? I use only SmartUPS and BackUPS Pro so I could not be sure but... Per olof To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message