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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!spring.edu.tw!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.us.world.net!usenet From: michaele@mxim.com (Michael Enkelis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ups monitoring ... Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 19:09:25 GMT Organization: (none) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32a71b41.3337367@news.us.world.net> References: <01bbe237$ae71e8c0$cfa22cc2@ghost> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.145.56.112 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99f/32.299 On 4 Dec 1996 23:05:00 GMT, "Grigory Lipich" <gri@home.bitsoft.kiev.ua> wrote: >Hi! > >I am looking for some tool, which will allow me to >monitor the status of ups via serial port. > >I have APC Back Pro and Tripplite Omni Pro models. > >Thanks. > I don't think we will be seeing anything real fancy for the APC product. I have the SmartUPS model, and after talking to APC about it's command set. A user can "license" the document for $50.00 and signing a non-disclosure form, which would limit including it as source code in FreeBSD. I did find the RS-232 pin-outs on the APC fax-back system and Microsoft has a older version of the APC monitor program located in Windows-95 download directory at MSN.COM which i grabbed and installed on my Win-95 system. I then made a "Y" cable to my FreeBSD system and proceded to have FreeBSD log all serial port traffic to/from the UPS. I expect to reverse engeener the command set perty soon, and maybe then release it to the FreeBSD group. If anybody wants to help with this i would like to hear from you.