Thanks for your reply. Well I hope APC sees the light soon, I write them and
ask them about it and they dont even reply, maybe if enough of us, sent them
emails that would see the light quicker. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Geof Goodrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Cityboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Smart UPS Graphical Display
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Cityboy wrote:
> I have a APC Smart UPS 1000, and looking to add a graphical display/read
> out to linux like Powerchute plus for windows, or something close or
> similiar to it..
>
> If there is a current one or one is in the works and need a beta tester
> please email me.
>
> APC isnt much help on this.
You probably got an answer on this already. APC apparently doesn't like
to share their serial communications protocol, but it was reverse
engineered.
I really like smupsd, which has a Java client to view the UPS
parameters. We use both Powerchute for AIX systems and smartupsd for the
Linux server. The smartupsd client is similar to xpowerchute's display.
We also use the UPS temperature to monitor room temperature trends and
page if the A/C fails. The status logs for both Powerchute and
smartupsd are similar, but not quite identical.
>From the UPS HOWTO:
smupsd-0.9-1.i386.rpm
<ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/smupsd-0.9-1.i386.rpm>
smupsd-0.9-1.src.rpm
<ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/smupsd-0.9-1.src.rpm>
The author (David E. Myers, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
smupsd monitors an APC Smart-UPS[TM] under Red Hat[TM] Linux.
Should power fail, smupsd will power down the system and the UPS
in an orderly fashion.
smupsd has the following features:
� Shuts down the system and the UPS based on either remaining UPS
battery charge or elapsed time since power failure.
� UPS parameters can be monitored live from any host with the
graphical monitor program upsmon, written in JavaTM.
� UPS parameters can be logged to a file for analysis and
reporting.
� When additional systems share the same UPS, instances of smupsd
running on these systems can read UPS parameters from the one
running on the system serially connected to the UPS
(master/slave).
� Network access from remote hosts can be controlled via the
/etc/hosts.allow file.
DISCLAIMER: The comments above are my own and may not represent the views
of my employer.
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