Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

Peter petermatulis at yahoo.ca
Tue Feb 21 07:32:55 PST 2006


--- Ian Lord <lordi at msdi.ca> wrote:

> At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >   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
> ?
> >
> >   If someone can attach a sample configuration file, I shall be
> grateful.
> >
> >   Thanks
> >   Manish Jain
> 
> How do you think freebsd will know the ups is 
> about to stop providing energy if the ups has no serial or usb port ?
> 
> :)

Maybe he can try using the ESP protocol?


	

	
		
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