Hi everyone, The other day my boss bought a UPS which was on special at Dick Smith Electronics for $100 (400Va, 9pin Serial-to-pc, 6 minutes @ half-load), an ok price i guess.
The DSE web site notes that the UPS has Linux software, which is true, I was able to download an RPM. But the rpm wont install because the software isn't meant to be run in command-line mode, and our server doesn't have X11 installed for security reasons :( I tried looking for a command line version, or some Linux software which will work on the command-line with the UPS but I am having absolutly no luck. I've checked out the HOWTO-UPS doc which gave me some help but i'm still no closer to getting it working with Linux. I have determined that its a smart UPS, by using a little serial line monitoring tool to check if the UPS changes the control lines on an event change, which it doesn't. So this means that it wont work in dumb mode with powerd. So now i have to find out what protocol it uses to communicate. I have no idea what brand of UPS it is because there are no branding or badges. The manual makes no note of the brand, and there is nothing on the UPS to determine the brand. All it has is "Model: UPS0400B" on a sticker at the back, its black, single green led on the front, single power button on front, 2 power-out sockets at the back. There is a picture on the DSE site: http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/3ef4d22d08603718273fc0a87f9c06bb/Product/View/M7650 Maybe someone will know who the parent brand is. If anyone has another other info about this ups or info on how i might be able to determine what brand it is, or what protocol it uses, then I'd really appreciate that. Thanks heaps. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
