Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:00:05 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com>, "Graywane" <graywane@home.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: does upsd support BACK-UPS from APC Message-ID: <004c01c0c7c4$6f3d9c40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010417113609.A39486@northernbrewer.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christopher >Farley >Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:36 AM >To: Graywane >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: does upsd support BACK-UPS from APC > > >Graywane (graywane@home.com) wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:01:30AM -0700, Hervey Wilson wrote: >> upsd does support the BACK-UPS series although I've had odd things happen >> with it from time to time. On one machine it was setup to wait >90 seconds, >> warn the users, wait 90 more seconds and then shutdown the >machine. However, >> a 1 second brownout caused the UPSs to go to battery and upsd >shutdown the >> machine instantly (which was more than a little annoying). upsd is only supposed to support the SmartUPS, NOT the BackUPS which uses different signalling protocol. But, I've had this happen on smartups and it's annoying too - I expect it's some setting that's wrong. > >It is not clear from the ports description, but I've been told that upsd >is hard-coded to work with European 220v rather than US 120v power. > Yes, this is true. I have a link on my book website to a version modified by Doug White to work with American power levels. >/usr/ports/sysutils/bkupsd works for me. > This is what I use because the server I run this on is behind an APC switcher that doesen't pass the smartups protocol, just simple signalling. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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