RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Monitoring options for APC UPS

[Keith Johnson]

I'm not sure if I'm reading your question properly but there's a big 
difference between battery condition and upsbasicOutputStatus. Battery 
condition, to me, refers to the charge holding ability of the battery. As 
anyone using UPS's knows, batteries go bad way too often. It's probable you 
will have a situation where your battery(s) fail and you won't know it 
because you haven't lost input power to the UPS yet. Off the top of my head 
I don't know what OID you would use to monitor the UPS's diagnostic 
routines but it seems to me that just looking at "upsbasicOutputStatus" is 
not sufficient.

kj

At 03:04 PM 3/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:

Hi, people.

This may be a stupid question, but I'd be even stupider if I didn't ask it,
and continued not to know.......
What is the difference between allowing an SNMP trap (UPS on Battery/power
restored) to notify of the battery condition and creating the SNMP
monitoring entry below (upsbasicOutputStatus)??
Chris Powers
Systems Engineer
MCSE, CNA, Network+, A+
Keane IT Technical Services
(617) 517-1730


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