Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:47:24 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: manish jain <goodredhat@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD Message-ID: <200602211047.24449.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43FB3AF8.2050209@mac.com> References: <20060221140925.84974.qmail@web34007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200602210950.27094.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <43FB3AF8.2050209@mac.com>
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On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:08, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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... Then, thats got to be a really old, old one. I've been working (playing with actually) with computers since the color computer. I won't admit to anything further back than that. I've never seen one that didn't have some means of communication (monitoring). Not from APC anyway. I think the model number from the case would tell us a lot. I think... therefore I sometimes blow smoke. Don
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