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Date:      Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:51:32 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd vs. UPS
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000927125132.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009261218470.28540-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>

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On 26-Sep-00 Tom wrote:
>  On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>    The APC BackUPS protocol raises and lowers control pins on the RS-232
>  cable.  It can barely be called a protocol.  Of course the BackUPS units
>  are designed for desktop use.  The SmartUPS protocol does a lot more.

Yes.. If anyone cares, there IS software to talk to them :)

nut is quite nice (has a neat cgi to graph UPS load etc..) and talks to quite a
number of upsen.

upsd is ugly but it works quite well.. APC only tho I think.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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