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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:49:40 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fiskars UPS support...
Message-ID:  <199510051849.LAA02372@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510050330.NAA17744@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 5, 95 01:00:16 pm

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> 
> Hiho people, time to talk of UPS'
> 
> We have a customer who'll be running a FreeBSD system (and associated 
> hardware) off a Fiskars UPS of some description.  In order to help us
> out, they've supplied me with a complete description of the protocol 
> that the UPS uses for status reporting.
> 
> Now, I'm not averse to writing a monitoring daemon, but there are a few
> issues that I (obviously) need to address with it, and it may well be that
> there's someone out there who either has a skeleton for a UPS monitoring
> daemon, or who just has the odd suggestion.  
> 
> The crucial issue in this case is, once the UPS has sounded its death knell,
> ie. power's out, and battery holdout is down to a few minutes, what should
> one do?

I believe there is a port of a UPS daemon in ports that answers these
questions and more... though it's not for a Fiskars UPS.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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