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Date:      Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:08:24 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        manish jain <goodredhat@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <43FB3AF8.2050209@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200602210950.27094.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>
References:  <20060221140925.84974.qmail@web34007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43FB2300.1070609@mac.com> <200602210950.27094.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>

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Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote:
[ ... ]
>> No.  If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or
>> serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with.
> 
> As best I can tell from the OP's description, and the APC website, they 
> all have a UPS port. Go from there.

All of the new Smart-UPS APC models that they are selling now have USB ports.

There are plenty of older models around in the channel, and there is the entire
Back-UPS model line that are not "smart", and thus have no monitoring/shutdown
capabilities.  See the Subject: header...

-- 
-Chuck



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