Yes, the UPS manufacturer supplies you with an executable which monitors the
state of the serial port dedicated to the UPS.
You can of course write your own, monitor the state of the handshake lines
coming in from the UPS and make a decision as to what to do when they change
state.
Many UPS manufacturers also supply an executable that chats down the serial
port to the UPS and lets you know what the battery state is, do you want to
run a diagnostic, etc and displays in a GUI or webpage or mails you or
whatever you want.
That software usually costs extra and not everyone wants it.
Regards,
Jill.
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Jill Rowling
Snr Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies Australia
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 8 September 2000 11:09
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [SLUG] UPSs and linux in general
What tells what what's happening and how?
(ie. Okay, so you've got your serial cable keeping them talking, and I
assume there's a daemon running in the background waiting for cries of
"Wolf!" from the UPS - what then? Do you configure a script to run at
various points or...? Please enlighten!)
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