PowerChute && FreeBSD 5.4 / 6.0

[Nikolas Britton]

On 8/12/05, Matthias Apitz <guru at sisis.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In our rack we have a APC Smart-UPS RT 5000 and in most of
> the Linux servers we use some java-based daemon 'PowerChute'; the
> daemon on each server creats LISTEN in TCP/3052 and UDP/3052
> and the Smart-UPS does UDP broadcasts on this port; this is
> all I can see with tcpdump.
> 
> PowerChute does not support FreeBSD (only Solaris, Linux, ...)
> and even if it would support FreeBSD I'm not willing to install
> all the java stuff on it because the system will be used as
> firewall.
> 
> Is there somehow a small client for this TCP/UDP protocol?
> 


http://www.freebsd.org/ports/sysutils.html
Search in there with the keywords UPS, APC, etc.

Check out nut:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/nut/pkg-descr
http://www.networkupstools.org/