Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 21:02:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Hugh Blandford <hugh@island.net.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UPSd & APC with ShareUPS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502205808.21194P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980501180618.006d156c@mail.island.net.au>
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On Fri, 1 May 1998, Hugh Blandford wrote: > I have an APC SmartUPS 3000 and a ShareUPS. I have a NT box currently > plugged into the master port on the ShareUPS running Powerchute. This box > doesn't run 24x7 unlike the FreeBSD boxes ;) Anyway I have been trying to > get the UPSd from the ports collection to run on the FreeBSD machines. I know of someone working on the 3000, it should run out-of-box. > I have tried a cable as per the spec on > http://www.cre8tivegroup.com/upsd.html and the APC cable and none seem to > work with my configuration. The NT box's cable should work fine. I tried building my own too and didn't have much luck -- I finally had to con one out of APC. > I have tried using the upsd.conf.sample file, renamed as the > configuration file and it says that it cannot switch to smart mode. I > have also tried the default config and it says that it fails the > self-test. Make sure you can communicate with the UPS using cu -- if you can't do anything there then you certainly can't with upsd. > Can someone please enlighten me and if possible send me a .conf that works > (privately :) for 240V? Is the 3 wire cable all I need as per the above > URL or should I be running with a cable configured exactly the same as the > APC one? The default setup is for a 240V APC; I had to hack upsd for 120v operation. > On another note I've set up the ShareUPS so that it runs till 2 min warning > and then it shuts down the UPS so it cycles the power on startup. Is there > a way to set up the .conf to make an impossibly large wait for the shutdown > time and when the daemon receives the 2 min warning triggers a shutdown. How does the UPS signal a `2 minute warning', exactly? You just have to set up a handler for that signal and react appropriately. If you want to do anything in the interim (when you get the initial on-battery signal) then reset the handler for line-fail. You can take the `after 180' out to disable the timeout. Grab ftp://gdi.uoregon.edu/pub/upsd.2.0.1.6.1.tgz; it has a 120v config file and manpages for upsd.conf. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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