Hi, I was wondering if there was any support in NUT for networked APC UPS's. All the configuration examples I see in the documentation are for USB/Serial connections to the UPS. I could mess around with serial/USB cables, but I'd really rather talk to the UPS over the network. I don't want all my servers relying on a single machine with a serial connection. -matthew
On 8/1/06, Matthew Isleb <misleb@pnca.edu> wrote:> I was wondering if there was any support in NUT for networked APC > UPS's. All the configuration examples I see in the documentation are > for USB/Serial connections to the UPS. I could mess around with > serial/USB cables, but I'd really rather talk to the UPS over the > network. I don't want all my servers relying on a single machine with > a serial connection.Does your APC UPS support SNMP? There is a 'snmp-ups' driver that understands several manufacturers' MIB formats, including APC's, I believe. You still may end up with a single point of failure, though, since you probably only want one machine commanding the UPS to power down. (A data center could avoid this with dual-input power supplies fed from separate UPSes.) Someone else who is more familiar with snmp-ups may have more insight into this. -- - Charles Lepple
> I was wondering if there was any support in NUT for networked APC > UPS's.The snmp-ups driver works well for us, but the SNMP card is an add-on extra and not all of APC's UPSes have a slot to plug it into. -- Dr George D M Ross, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH9 3JZ Mail: gdmr@inf.ed.ac.uk Voice: +44 131 650 5147 Fax: +44 131 667 7209 PGP: 1024D/AD758CC5 B91E D430 1E0D 5883 EF6A 426C B676 5C2B AD75 8CC5 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 238 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20060802/b643f74b/attachment.pgp