Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

APC is doing that because they want you to pay them more money
for upgrades.  Don't feel singled out.  APC is the only company
I know that can sell 2 identical products, one painted white
(the SmartUPS 700) and one painted black (The SmartUPS 700) and
get $800 for the white one and $250 for the black one, and
have both of them right next to each other on the APC website.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of manish jain
>Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:16 AM
>To: Donald J. O'Neill; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD
>
>
>
>Hi Don,
>
>  Thanks for the reply. But yes, APC is selling in India the
>models it can't sell anywhere else. My 500 VA Back UPS
>(purchased new last month) does not have any cuaa/usb
>interface. It's not just APC alone, there's a whole lot of
>companies that throw their junk in here in this country.
>Thankfully FreeBSD is not one of them.
>
>  Regards
>  Manish Jain
>
>"Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> manish jain wrote:
>> > I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the
>> > pro/smart one).
>> > It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any
>> > other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts
>> > down before backup supply runs out ?
>>
>> 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.
>
>Don
>
>
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