Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:08:24 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Cc: manish jain <goodredhat@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD Message-ID: <43FB3AF8.2050209@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200602210950.27094.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> References: <20060221140925.84974.qmail@web34007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43FB2300.1070609@mac.com> <200602210950.27094.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>
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Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] >> No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or >> serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. > > As best I can tell from the OP's description, and the APC website, they > all have a UPS port. Go from there. All of the new Smart-UPS APC models that they are selling now have USB ports. There are plenty of older models around in the channel, and there is the entire Back-UPS model line that are not "smart", and thus have no monitoring/shutdown capabilities. See the Subject: header... -- -Chuck
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