>> some months ago I bought an SBS GC400 UPS. >> I came with a kit RS232 + UPSmart CDROM that works only with RedHat > 7.0-7.3. >> As I use Debian I tried alien with no success. >> >> Can you please provide me with any hint to understand if my UPS can > be managed by NUT? >> Can a driver be written, knowing how the cable works and which > signals come out from the UPS' RS232? >> >> TIA, >> Mario Cassani > > I don't know anything about such brand. > > You have 3 options: > - dig a bit the net to see if it's a rebrand of some other manufacturer, > - contact the manufacturer to ask which protocol they use, and ask theim > to support nut, > - try some nut driver in debug mode (<driver-name> -DDD ...) and check if > something works. > > Google'ing a bit on UPSmart, I found that trying megatec might be a good > option.
Looking at the pricetag (about 50, according to Google), I would try the genericups driver (upstype=7) if the megatec driver doesn't communicate with this UPS. Chances are that all it supports, is a contact closure interface. The enclosure looks somewhat like the Sweex 500 I once owned and which also used UPSmart software. As far as I remember, this software supported both dumb and smart UPS'es. Best regards, Arjen -- Eindhoven - The Netherlands Key fingerprint - 66 4E 03 2C 9D B5 CB 9B 7A FE 7E C1 EE 88 BC 57 _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser