Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:58:11 -0600 (CST) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Steve Lindemann" <steve@marmot.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPS Message-ID: <50421.128.135.52.6.1446739091.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <563B75FF.9020104@marmot.org> References: <20151105073309.1325707a@seibercom.net> <563B75FF.9020104@marmot.org>
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On Thu, November 5, 2015 9:30 am, Steve Lindemann wrote: > On 11/5/2015 5:33 AM, Jerry wrote: >> I was given a brand new APC Smart-UPS SC 420VA unit. I was wondering if >> anyone had actually tried or used one of these units with FreeBSD. >> According >> to the documentation, it is "plug & play" with Windows, but I have no >> idea >> how to make it play nicely, if at all, with FreeBSD. There is no USB >> connector, just a serial connector. > > Take a look at Network UPS Tools (NUT). I haven't used it myself (yet) > but I've heard it works... though maybe not with serial. If you give it > a try and it does work with serial let us know too. > -- I must have introduced confusion in my other post, when I described apcupsd on machine not connected to UPS with serial/USB cable talking over network to apcupsd connected to the UPS with serial/USB cable. What I said is only relevant to apcupsd (which I use forever). Network UPS Tools mentioned here are different tools that have nothing to do with apcupsd, and what I said about apcupsd is not related to Network UPS Tools, and neither it needs these tools (all I described is done by the same apcupsd software). Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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