Nut upsuser - Aug 2007 - Ever hear of Robanton?

Hi,

	Anyone have any experience with these ??? 

http://cgi.ebay.com/UPS-1000VA-Brand-New_W0QQitemZ280141461506QQihZ018QQcategoryZ99265QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

		Thanks, Tuc

Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> 	Anyone have any experience with these ??? 
> 
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/UPS-1000VA-Brand-New_W0QQitemZ280141461506QQihZ018QQcategoryZ99265QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
According to this website, it supports
> # Interface 9Pin D-type Connector:
> AC fault, battery low, Shutdown UPS 
This looks like a contact closure interface, which would be supported
through the genericups driver. Don't expect fancy features though, the
above is all the information you'd get from it. Probably good enough for
a desktop device, but for a server I would opt for something more
sophisticated.

Best regards, Arjen

On 9/19/07, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 9/19/07, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET <ml at t-b-o-h.net> wrote:
> > I also wondered if for FreeBSD anyone
> > knew of a "tcpdump" for serial communications. This way if
it IS
> > doing something never seen before, I can trap it for inclusion.
>
> ktrace and kdump will show you system calls (including read()s and
> write()s on the serial port).
I should clarify: these are for monitoring a local program on a *BSD
box (similar to using strace on Linux/SysV).

Doing some sort of man-in-the-middle monitoring is a hassle due to
baud rates and everything.

Also, if you want to watch the Windows program interact with the UPS,
take a look at portmon from the Sysinternals collection (not sure
where it went now that the author works for Microsoft or whatever).

-- 
- Charles Lepple