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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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