Re: [Nut-upsuser] Why are LAN ports not standard on UPSs these days?

2017-06-25 Thread John Darrah
On 6/25/2017 8:33 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 06/25/2017 05:52 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: Larry, On 2017-06-25 23:26, Larry Fahnoe wrote: Hi Phil, I don't have an answer to your question about the lack of LAN ports, I think it is weird - with everything else being connected to LANs

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Why are LAN ports not standard on UPSs these days?

2017-06-25 Thread Philip Rhoades
Charles, On 2017-06-26 03:43, Charles Lepple wrote: On Jun 25, 2017, at 8:53 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: I don't understand why most of the UPS offerings available do not come standard with a LAN port? Why is this? As others have mentioned, it probably comes down to cost for a port that is

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Why are LAN ports not standard on UPSs these days?

2017-06-25 Thread Philip Rhoades
Manuel, On 2017-06-26 01:30, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 06/25/2017 05:52 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: Larry, On 2017-06-25 23:26, Larry Fahnoe wrote: Hi Phil, I don't have an answer to your question about the lack of LAN ports, I think it is weird - with everything else being connected to

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Why are LAN ports not standard on UPSs these days?

2017-06-25 Thread Charles Lepple
On Jun 25, 2017, at 8:53 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > I don't understand why most of the UPS offerings available do not come > standard with a LAN port? Why is this? As others have mentioned, it probably comes down to cost for a port that is not frequently used. Something to consider is that

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Why are LAN ports not standard on UPSs these days?

2017-06-25 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 06/25/2017 05:52 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: Larry, On 2017-06-25 23:26, Larry Fahnoe wrote: Hi Phil, I don't have an answer to your question about the lack of LAN ports, I think it is weird - with everything else being connected to LANs like fridges etc . . why not UPSs? because

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Why are LAN ports not standard on UPSs these days?

2017-06-25 Thread Philip Rhoades
Larry, On 2017-06-25 23:26, Larry Fahnoe wrote: Hi Phil, I don't have an answer to your question about the lack of LAN ports, I think it is weird - with everything else being connected to LANs like fridges etc . . why not UPSs? but can offer my experience with NUT for a home server

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Why are LAN ports not standard on UPSs these days?

2017-06-25 Thread Tim Dawson
I'll guess expense, and possibly inherent unreliability in that there is more than a passive interconnect to the server. Having said that, higher end gear appears far more likely to have a LAN port or capability thereof . . . the cheap hope stuff does not, considering that it likely would not

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Why are LAN ports not standard on UPSs these days?

2017-06-25 Thread Larry Fahnoe
Hi Phil, I don't have an answer to your question about the lack of LAN ports, but can offer my experience with NUT for a home server environment. I've tended to prefer the Tripp-Lite UPS systems, mainly because I originally felt they did a good job of power filtering. I use a NUT master running

[Nut-upsuser] Why are LAN ports not standard on UPSs these days?

2017-06-25 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, A couple of decades before I was retired and was still working for other people I had cause to install UPSs and they usually had RS232 ports to allow the setting up of shutdown scripts to UNIX / Linux servers. Now, after not having to be concerned by those issues for some time - most