One example is me.

The enterprise level on-line UPSs I have are serial only. I wonder if
using a generic FTDI serial to USB drivers would be acceptable? 


On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 15:36 -0600, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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