From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 5 11:52:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA16658 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:52:04 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA16653 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:52:02 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA02372; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:49:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510051849.LAA02372@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Fiskars UPS support... To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:49:40 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199510050330.NAA17744@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 5, 95 01:00:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1014 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.