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From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
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Subject: Re: APC ups monitor?
To: brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu (Brook Milligan)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:09:31 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199607152351.RAA15011@aster.nmsu.edu> from "Brook Milligan" at Jul 15, 96 05:51:32 pm
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> I know this doesn't help you out of the current situation, but I
> recently bought some Best Power UPS equipment for the very reason you
> are now encountering: Best Power provides the communication specs free
> of charge (you can also pay for source code for a small monitoring
> program), whereas APC does not.  It seemed reasonable to support those
> who make the information accessible!
> 
> Cheers,
> Brook

Ok, I'll bite.  Anybody have upsd(-like) code that talks to a Best?
I've got a couple of the Fortress 660s, and would love to get info from
them.

-Andrew