Nut upsuser - Dec 2012 - Does NUT include support for older UPSD servers?

I have a network with two older systems protected by APC UPSs.  Both 
systems run OS/2 and will continue to do so.  Both systems have APC 
PowerChute Plus 4.2.3 installed and I can use that software to monitor 
and control both systems.

I am also now running several linux systems, in fact I spend almost all 
my time on the linux systems and these OS/2 systems are servers running 
in the background which need to be protected.  Thus I would like to be 
able to monitor the UPSs connected to the OS/2 systems from a linux 
system.  Unfortunately that appears to be problematic. The PCP 4.x 
software appears to use Lan Server for its network protocol while the 
later APC software uses TCP/IP for networking. The Windows/WfWG version 
of 4.x lacks network support.  The linux version of 4.x is not binary 
compatible with modern linux systems and is closed source.

I have posted on the APC forums and they have had nothing further to 
suggest to me other than to check third-party software or run the OS/2 
software in a virtual machine.  Given this, I am posting this to ask if 
there is backward compatibility in your package that would permit me to 
monitor my UPSs connected via the OS/2 UPSD 4.2.3 software.  If not, I 
guess I will need to look elsewhere.

Dave

On Dec 4, 2012, at 1:17 PM, David H. Durgee wrote:
> I have a network with two older systems protected by APC UPSs.  Both
systems run OS/2 and will continue to do so.  Both systems have APC PowerChute
Plus 4.2.3 installed and I can use that software to monitor and control both
systems.
> 
> I am also now running several linux systems, in fact I spend almost all my
time on the linux systems and these OS/2 systems are servers running in the
background which need to be protected.  Thus I would like to be able to monitor
the UPSs connected to the OS/2 systems from a linux system.  Unfortunately that
appears to be problematic. The PCP 4.x software appears to use Lan Server for
its network protocol while the later APC software uses TCP/IP for networking.
The Windows/WfWG version of 4.x lacks network support.  The linux version of 4.x
is not binary compatible with modern linux systems and is closed source.
So if I understand correctly, it is not possible to run the later PowerChute
Plus software (that supports TCP/IP) on the OS/2 systems?
> I have posted on the APC forums and they have had nothing further to
suggest to me other than to check third-party software or run the OS/2 software
in a virtual machine.  Given this, I am posting this to ask if there is backward
compatibility in your package that would permit me to monitor my UPSs connected
via the OS/2 UPSD 4.2.3 software.  If not, I guess I will need to look
elsewhere.
I don't think NUT has support for talking to PowerChute (unless it is hiding
under a different name), but if we were to develop something for it, we would
probably only target the TCP/IP interface.

If it is possible to get the OS/2 boxes to speak the PowerChute protocol over
TCP, you might have some success with apcupsd:

  http://old.nabble.com/APC-PowerChute-Network-Protocol-to5424978.html

 
http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html#powerchute-network-shutdown-driver-pcnet

This is all speculation, however.

-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail

I have obtained a copy of NUT-2.4.3 for OS/2 port from the restricted 
server.  Unfortunately I found on inspection that it does not include 
all the drivers and is missing apcsmart in particular.  I have posted a 
request to the guy who ported it to see if he could port that driver as 
well, but I have not heard from him about this yet.  The port was also 
done back in June, 2010, so there is also a question about recreating 
the build environment at this point.  Given the time passed it might 
make more sense from his point of view to port the current version 
instead.  Hopefully I will hear from him in a few days, but given this 
is close to the Christmas holiday it is possible it might be a while.

Dave