From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Nov 5 15:58:13 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C56BA27DBF for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 15:58:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF72F18E8 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 15:58:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id E9D6ACB8CA0; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:58:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:58:11 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <50421.128.135.52.6.1446739091.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <563B75FF.9020104@marmot.org> References: <20151105073309.1325707a@seibercom.net> <563B75FF.9020104@marmot.org> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:58:11 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: UPS From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "Steve Lindemann" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:58:13 -0000 On Thu, November 5, 2015 9:30 am, Steve Lindemann wrote: > On 11/5/2015 5:33 AM, Jerry wrote: >> I was given a brand new APC Smart-UPS SC 420VA unit. I was wondering if >> anyone had actually tried or used one of these units with FreeBSD. >> According >> to the documentation, it is "plug & play" with Windows, but I have no >> idea >> how to make it play nicely, if at all, with FreeBSD. There is no USB >> connector, just a serial connector. > > Take a look at Network UPS Tools (NUT). I haven't used it myself (yet) > but I've heard it works... though maybe not with serial. If you give it > a try and it does work with serial let us know too. > -- I must have introduced confusion in my other post, when I described apcupsd on machine not connected to UPS with serial/USB cable talking over network to apcupsd connected to the UPS with serial/USB cable. What I said is only relevant to apcupsd (which I use forever). Network UPS Tools mentioned here are different tools that have nothing to do with apcupsd, and what I said about apcupsd is not related to Network UPS Tools, and neither it needs these tools (all I described is done by the same apcupsd software). Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++