APC UPS Trip Lite - usb device keeps disconnecting

2012-02-08 Thread jbiskofski
Gentlemen, I have recently purchased a small APC UPS unit for my office server. We have power outages from time to time that can last a couple of hours ( Mexico City ). I would like to setup apcupsd to automatically shutdown the server when there is a power outage. Upon connecting the UPS

Re: APC UPS Trip Lite - usb device keeps disconnecting

2012-02-08 Thread Matt Mullins
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:29 AM, jbiskofski jbiskof...@gmail.com wrote: And then about 20 seconds later :    ugen1.2: Tripp Lite at usbus1 (disconnected)    uhid1: at uhub1, port 2, addr 2 (disconnected) 20 seconds after that :    ugen1.2: Tripp Lite at usbus1    uhid1: Tripp Lite Tripp

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-28 Thread Derek Ragona
I still have one server running 5.X release. 5.X also should automatically generate the devs. Do you have support for usb in your kernel? If you do have usb compiled in your kernel, check your dmesg that the usb devices are properly being identified. -Derek At 07:27 PM 3/27/2007,

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/03/07 Derek Ragona said: I still have one server running 5.X release. 5.X also should automatically generate the devs. Do you have support for usb in your kernel? If you do have usb compiled in your kernel, check your dmesg that the usb devices are properly being identified. It's

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/03/07 Derek Ragona said: I use nut-ups on a number of systems both attached to a UPS and some as network slaves. In all my systems I use UPS's that have serial interfaces and USB, but connect them via serial. If you read the docs on nut-ups you will see some drivers do support the

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-27 Thread Derek Ragona
Which FreeBSD version are you running? In 6.X the devs are created automatically on bootup. In earlier versions you may need to make it. Look at the Makefile in /dev for the correct make option. -Derek At 05:39 PM 3/27/2007, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 26/03/07 Derek Ragona

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 27/03/07 Derek Ragona said: Which FreeBSD version are you running? In 6.X the devs are created automatically on bootup. In earlier versions you may need to make it. Look at the Makefile in /dev for the correct make option. I'm running 5-STABLE. I don't see a Makefile in /dev. Mike

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-26 Thread Derek Ragona
I use nut-ups on a number of systems both attached to a UPS and some as network slaves. In all my systems I use UPS's that have serial interfaces and USB, but connect them via serial. If you read the docs on nut-ups you will see some drivers do support the USB's. You will need to specify

using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey, I'm new to using nut-ups, or any UPS monitoring software. Mainly I want some kind of reporting on power failures, and for a clean shutdown in the event of a prolonged outage. The UPS is an APC Back-UPS ES 500, with a USB interface. With usbd running, usbdevs shows it connected. [EMAIL

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 25, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey, I'm new to using nut-ups, or any UPS monitoring software. Mainly I want some kind of reporting on power failures, and for a clean shutdown in the event of a prolonged outage. The UPS is an APC Back-UPS ES 500, with a USB interface.

APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Matt Navarre
I'm in the market for a UPS that works with FreeBSD. Does anyone know if the APC Back-UPS Pro 280VA Just Works with FreeBSD 4-STABLE and apcupsd? As far as I can tell apcupsd support for usb on FreeBSD is not reliable, but this one's serial and affordable but I'd like to know if it works before

RE: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
refurbs off their website. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Navarre Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: APC UPS question I'm in the market for a UPS that works with FreeBSD. Does anyone

Re: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
that the batteries will be toasted no matter what the seller claims) APS themselves also sells refurbs off their website. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Navarre Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: APC

re: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread John Koepke
I have purchased a few APC Ups's from a vendor on Ebay. Wonderful to work with. a few weeks ago the UPS I purchased about 1 and a half years ago had a electrical problem and the ups failed. He sent me another unit and it arrived in just a few days. I Paid $179 for a APC Smart 1400 RM UPS. I

RE: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Huff
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. Are you sure your looking at the right thing? I believe they have the BackUPS _Pro_ 280, the larger brothers (420 and 650) of which are sitting two feet behind me. Both have serial ports only. (They

Re: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Matt Navarre
On Thursday 21 October 2004 07:35, Robert Huff wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. Are you sure your looking at the right thing? I believe they have the BackUPS _Pro_ 280, the larger brothers (420 and 650) of which are sitting two

RE: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Robert Huff Subject: Re: APC UPS question On Thursday 21 October 2004 07:35, Robert Huff wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. Are you sure your looking at the right thing? I believe they have

RE: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Huff
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: incidentally with the smartups you can query the ups for the amount of runtime left so you know how much life is left in the battery, the ups self-tests this periodically and you can send a command to it to do this. Very useful. That's also true for the

Re: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Huff
Matt Navarre writes: I believe they have the BackUPS _Pro_ 280, the larger brothers (420 and 650) of which are sitting two feet behind me. Both have serial ports only. (They are 5+ years old.) Does the 650 work well with FreeBSD? I can get a refurb 650 from APC for the same

Re: USB APC UPS support in FreeBSD

2004-07-28 Thread Gordon Freeman
PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, sorry if it is wrong place to address this issue to... Could anybody port apcupsd daemon or something else on FreeBSD to support APC UPS USB connection? Or is it already done? Regards, Konstantin Nizhegorodov

USB APC UPS support in FreeBSD

2004-07-27 Thread Konstantin . Nizhegorodov
Hello, sorry if it is wrong place to address this issue to... Could anybody port apcupsd daemon or something else on FreeBSD to support APC UPS USB connection? Or is it already done? Regards, Konstantin Nizhegorodov. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

APC UPS with USB ? Anybody?

2004-04-06 Thread Gregory Edigarov
Hi, I need to connect my freebsd server to APC BackUPS 500 RS. The problem is that apcupsd does not support this combination. Ports was not really helpful. So, if anybody have the patches, or any idea of how to make it working I would realy appreciate it. Thanks a lot in advance. -- With best

Re: APC UPS with USB ? Anybody?

2004-04-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:11:03 +0300, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Hi, I need to connect my freebsd server to APC BackUPS 500 RS. The problem is that apcupsd does not support this combination. Ports was not really helpful. So, if anybody have the patches, or any idea of how to make

Re: APC UPS with USB ? Anybody?

2004-04-06 Thread Me
That would be sufficient to create a script to monitor the power state, maybe have the script check the status again in 10 minutes and shutdown the PC if necessary. It can be done right? --- Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:11:03 +0300, in

Re: APC UPS with USB ? Anybody?

2004-04-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:48 PM 06/04/2004, Me wrote: That would be sufficient to create a script to monitor the power state, maybe have the script check the status again in 10 minutes and shutdown the PC if necessary. It can be done right? The time estimate is very inaccurate on the ES and RS units that I have

Re: APC UPS

2003-02-25 Thread Dan Pelleg
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, A while ago I posted that I could not get my APC UPS BK350 to work under FreeBSD 4.7R, using apcupsd. Problem was that, though apcupsd test prog sees the power go off-line, the apcupsd daemon itself does not. :( So, since I do need a solution, maybe I

Re: APC UPS

2003-02-25 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 09:29 AM 2.25.2003 -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, A while ago I posted that I could not get my APC UPS BK350 to work under FreeBSD 4.7R, using apcupsd. Problem was that, though apcupsd test prog sees the power go off-line, the apcupsd daemon itself does

Re: APC UPS

2003-02-25 Thread J. Seth Henry
Mark, I have an APC 750XL smart UPS powering my server and home automation setup. I have taken to using the PowerChute software provided by APC under linux emulation, which works quite well so long as you modify the shell scripts for use on a BSD system. I haven't tried running the apcupsd

Re: APC UPS

2003-02-24 Thread Mark
Hi, A while ago I posted that I could not get my APC UPS BK350 to work under FreeBSD 4.7R, using apcupsd. Problem was that, though apcupsd test prog sees the power go off-line, the apcupsd daemon itself does not. :( So, since I do need a solution, maybe I just need a smart UPS. I was thinking

Re: APC UPS

2003-02-24 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: A while ago I posted that I could not get my APC UPS BK350 to work under FreeBSD 4.7R, using apcupsd. Problem was that, though apcupsd test prog sees the power go off-line, the apcupsd daemon itself does not. :( Try nut with the 350. I've got

RE: Need help with software to run my APC UPS

2002-07-16 Thread Carroll, D. (Danny)
out of the box.. Also... Do you have 2 UPS's or are you testing with one on two machines? -D :-Original Message- :From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] :Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 11:23 PM :To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; jon :Subject: Re: Need help with software to run my APC UPS

Re: Need help with software to run my APC UPS

2002-07-16 Thread zjoe
I'm keeping the freebsd-questions on these emails in case someone needs to know this stuff, too. :) At 04:03 PM 7/15/02 -0700, you wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you comment out #ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure or #ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600

RE: Need help with software to run my APC UPS

2002-07-16 Thread zjoe
with software to run my APC UPS : : : :did you comment out : :#ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure :or :#ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure : in /etc/ttys? this was my problem. : :Tried this and it didn't work. : :This is where I stand now: : :1. Two

Re: Need help with software to run my APC UPS

2002-07-15 Thread zjoe
did you comment out #ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure or #ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 dialup off secure in /etc/ttys? this was my problem. Tried this and it didn't work. This is where I stand now: 1. Two computers each with a APC Back-UPS Pro 650 and cable