From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 29 6:47:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59B437B423 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:47:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper204.velocet.net [204.138.45.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237BE137F59; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:47:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA29968; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:47:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14804.40277.131687.380621@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:47:01 -0400 (EDT) To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: dgilbert@velocet.ca (David Gilbert), matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET, dhesi@rahul.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [stable] Re: Freebsd vs. UPS In-Reply-To: <200009290856.BAA03585@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <14801.62266.831581.816270@trooper.velocet.net> <200009290856.BAA03585@freeway.dcfinc.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Chad" == Chad R Larson writes: Chad> I own a couple of the PowerWare Prestige 1500VA units with extra Chad> external battery packs, and have some documentation. Running a Chad> FreeBSD system, a Windows98 box, my cable modem and NAT/Firewall Chad> gets me about an hour of keep-alive. Chad> The serial port on the back can be kicked into several different Chad> modes by typing some control characters at it. One of the modes Chad> is appropreate for a serial terminal, with ASCII character Chad> menus. You wouldn't happen to know what those ctrl characters are, would you? Chad> But the way I've been running it is with an accessory called the Chad> "ConnectUPS", which is a wart that plugs into the serial port, Chad> and provides an RJ-45 10baseT ethernet connection and a complete Chad> SNMP MIB. Chad> They have some free-for-download Windows based software that can Chad> put up all kinds of pretty meters showing things like percent Chad> load, or voltage in and out, or run time remaining, internal Chad> temperature, etc. and do shutdown of the Windows boxes if the Chad> battery gets low. Chad> And, most any SNMP station that can grok the UPS MIB can do Chad> tricks with it as well. How does one get snmpwalk to read other mibs? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message