Benjamin, Well, a USB-> Serial dongle would still require the serial drivers within NUT, and that assumes the dongle's Linux driver properly supported any special RS232 pins such as DTR or CTS. I recall old APC UPS's used those pins with a special serial cable.
My query here was to see if someone had an example where a UPS only supported serial communications and would like to monitor it with AstLinux. It would seem that newer UPS's all support USB instead of Serial. Please correct me if I am wrong. Lonnie On Dec 28, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Benjamin L. Naber wrote: > Lonnie, et al: > > while serial drivers are not going to be installed, do you suppose there > will be the option for the end user to add those specific drivers and > alter the config files to support serial connected UPS devices? > > Or, would it be considerably beneficial to for the end user to just > obtain a serial to USB device? > > ~Benjamin > > > On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 12:57 -0600, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: >> The AstLinux team is working on adding NUT support for AstLinux. >> >> http://www.networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html >> >> It seems NUT has improved greatly over the past few years (now supports >> SNMP) and the fact that apcupsd has not been updated for over 2 years, it >> may be wise to have an alternative plan for UPS support. >> >> Question, it seems to me that supporting USB and Network connections to the >> UPS should be adequate. No Serial connections. While including Serial >> connection support would not be difficult, it adds a lot of extra drivers >> and seems of very limited value. >> >> Unless there are objections, we will build NUT with the --without-serial >> configure option. >> >> Lonnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
