Hi, and thank you for the help so far. See my responses below. On 05/11/11 12:17, Arnaud Quette wrote: > Hi Greg, > > 2011/11/4 Charles Lepple <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Greg Trounson > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > These Socomec units have RS-232 connectors and claim to support JBUS. > > On the nut compatibility page I only see one Socomec model listed and > > it's a different one. Incidentally, do the colours in the Driver > column > > on that page mean anything? I don't see a legend anywhere. > > I thought there was a legend next to the filter section, which isn't > showing up on my web browser either. > > > oh, right. thanks for bringing my attention on this. > > red: protocol based on reverse engineering > orange: based on fragments of publicly available protocol > yellow: based on publicly available protocol > blue: vendor provided protocol > green: vendor provided protocol and hardware > > Arnaud: is someone working on this page?
Ah, that makes sense now. I had initially thought red might have meant something like "not working" or "poorly supported". > /me. > since Seb (Volle) has resigned from Eaton, I'm alone on this point. > and since I've not much javascript knowledges, it's hard to debug... > for a reason I don't yet know, the legend is there, initially hidden, > but the nut_jquery.js script that shows it seems not loaded. > I'm working on it, but since I'll be tripping back from Orlando (UDS), I > won't probably be able to solve it before next week. > > > > Does anyone know what if these are likely to work with nut? > > There are no references to JBUS in the driver code, so either the > protocol is known under a different name, or it isn't likely to work. > > > I also missed that part in my answer: > JBus is a Modbus variant, used by industrial automation, through serial > and ethernet > I wanted to write a driver for long, but the lack of users need (and > time) got the final word. I was a bit worried when I could find very little about JBus outside the world of Socomec other than that it was, as you say, a variant of Modbus. > that said, Eaton sells a JBus / Modbus network card: > http://download.mgeops.com/emb/htm/66102e.htm > > Could you please elaborate on your exact needs Greg? I am looking for a UPS to cater for a rack of servers that collectively may draw up to 2kVA. To allow for decent headroom (and usually accompanied with higher battery capacity) I would favour a 3kVA UPS. Due to the power in our building being somewhat "dirty" due to motors, fluorescent lights, etc, some kind of line conditioning is required, either through a full "online" UPS or active filtering, preferably the former. The rack will be populated predominantly with Linux servers, and I want to be able to use one of these to query the UPS about its status (battery charge, load, etc). Once I have that I can integrate it via bash scripts into an automated warning system. thanks, Greg _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
