From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 15:42:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-64-219-21-235.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.21.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FCE37B4AC for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:41:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (sageone [192.168.0.5]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2ENfWr27213; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:41:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from admin@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020314174131.01178868@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: admin@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:41:31 -0600 To: , , From: Server Admin Subject: RE: [GLLUG] Re: apcups In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.20020314152750.01178868@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff: First, have you visited the very thorough website at: http://www.apcupsd.org/ It has almost everything you want to know. BUT, I have tried many different types of UPSes and I could only get the APC Smart-UPS models to actually "talk" to the system and give out data about the battery. If you have the Backups, I think it is among the "dumb UPSes" that are described in the documentation and very limited on the cable signals. If you pull off the cable, you *may* be told it sensed a break, but as far as any useful data...??? Again, I will never buy anything BUT an APC Smart-UPS.... if I want to communicate with it. The so-called "dumb UPSes" are okay IF you have a smart-ups running on the network to monitor things and tell the ones without ability to shut down. At least the dumb ones will sense a power outage and run the machines long enough to save files and shut down.... I may be wrong about your model, but don't think so.... At 05:55 PM 3.14.2002 -0500, Jeff Lawton wrote: >>>> Arial0000,0000,ffffI am using apcupsd from the ports collection on comm 1 and with APC,s serial cable 940-0020C that came with the unit and freebsd 4.5. I have tried both cuaa0 and ttyd0 without success. the ups is feeding a lightbulb and when I unplug the ups I get no messages, any ideals? Arial0000,0000,ffffHere is a copy of the conf file.am I missing something ? Arial0000,0000,ffff## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ## UPSCABLE 940-0020C UPSTYPE backups DEVICE /dev/ttyd0 LOCKFILE /var/apcups/lock UPSCLASS standalone UPSMODE disable ANNOY 10 ANNOYDELAY 20 Tahoma-----Original Message----- From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Server Admin Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:28 PM To: jeff@idealso.com; linux-user@egr.msu.edu; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [GLLUG] Re: apcups Try /dev/ttyd0 At 03:55 PM 3.14.2002 -0500, Jeff Lawton wrote: >>>> I am setting up a APC backups 650 on a freebsd box. It does not seem to be communicating. Is there a different device I should be using other than cuaa0? Jeff Lawton <<<<<<<< .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone Server Admin _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list linux-user@egr.msu.edu http://www.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user <<<<<<<< .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message