Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:23:38 -0800 From: "Joseph M. Scott" <jmscott@ainet.com> To: Calin Andrian <calin@ibd.dbio.ro>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APC Back UPS monitor Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980119102338.007f9680@mail.ainet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980119165731.827A-100000@ibd.dbio.ro>
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I'd be interested, I was almost at the same point of just about writing my own :-) If it ends up somewhere please let me know, I'd like to test it out. Thanks... Joseph Scott jmscott@ainet.com At 05:08 PM 1/19/98 +0200, Calin Andrian wrote: >Hi ! > >I searched all over the place for a monitoring package for APC backups and >did not find any. Finally I wrote a small driver and a monitoring daemon, >with good results. > >I didn't use the sio driver because it seems (maybe I'm wrong) that once >you successfully open the tty port, both DTR and RTS go high, causing the >(dumb) backups to immediately shut down. > >My package monitors the line-fail status and shuts down the system and the >UPS if the line is out for more than you-name-it seconds. > >How could I make it public ? >(I mean if anybody is interested) > >Calin > > >
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