From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 12:42:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mixtim.homeip.net (cg392862-a.adubn1.nj.home.com [65.2.79.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D6D37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixtim.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EB7149907; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:42:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:42:12 -0400 From: Mixtim To: alexus Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UPSd software for APC/UPS Message-ID: <20010906154212.A29218@mixtim.homeip.net> Reply-To: Mixtim References: <000901c1366a$8b482940$0d00a8c0@alexus> <20010905204745.A24647@mixtim.homeip.net> <003601c136fb$47412f30$0d00a8c0@alexus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003601c136fb$47412f30$0d00a8c0@alexus>; from ml@db.nexgen.com on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:42:20PM -0400 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 On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:42:20PM -0400, alexus wrote: > > If you don't mind running your APC product in "dumb" mode then the > > "Linux" Simple Signaling Daemon available at APC's web site works with > > just a few source code changes on FreeBSD. > > what's dumb mode? Well, the APC docs actually refer to it as "simple" mode I just call it "dumb" mode. In "simple" mode the UPS only tells you things like when the battery is in use. If all you want to do is shutdown the machine if the power goes out for more than a few minutes then "simple" mode is good enough. The "smart" mode also tells you things like battery temperature, remaining power, etc. -- features useful for monitoring your UPS but not terribly useful if all you want to do is shutdown in the event of an extended power failure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message