From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 12:43:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA25752 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boris.clintondale.com (boris.clintondale.com [206.88.120.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA25745 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by boris.clintondale.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00371 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:43:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:36:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Hamilton To: freebas-questions@freebsd.org Subject: controlling a UPS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ReSent-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:42:59 -0400 (EDT) ReSent-From: Matt Hamilton ReSent-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ReSent-Message-ID: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I have an APC SmartUPS and I was wondering if it is possible to control it somehow. Is there some program to monitor UPSs out there? Is it as simple as sending a byte to the serial port and capturing what comes back? If so is there a list of commands APCs understand? -Matt