This is one of the reasons why I've been happy I bought a Smart-UPS, not only
does it provide more information(ammount of battery power and UPS load as well
as other information), but the apcd package for APC monitoring worked
on it out of the box for slink.
Dave Bristel
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:51:51 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Thomas R. Shemanske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Debian Development liste <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)
> Resent-Date: 27 Mar 2000 07:01:59 -0000
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> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:
>
> > A few days ago, I posted this to the debian-users list, but got no
> > takers.
> > Perhaps someone here has some ideas.
> OK, if noone else replied I'll give it a trial. Consider me as a
> fool with the fortune to get a running UPS daemon and not as an
> expert in this field!!
>
> Once I tried *every* single UPS daemon package of the Debian system
> without any success. The reason was (if I remember right) that they
> were talking to the UPS via "SMART" connection (please read more
> in your documentation about that topic). Unfortunately the cable
> shipped with my UPS didn't support this mode. It only supportet
> "SIMPLE" connection. (Note: Possibly you have to swap the words
> SMART and SIMPLE in the previous text. They are possibly confused
> by my "unSMART" memory :-). )
>
> Please read all the documentation (of the daemon and the hardware)
> very carefully, which cables you need or how you can build the
> right cable yourself.
>
> After failing with all I tried to package ssd from the APC site.
> I was successfull in packaging it but it failed to work because
> of the same reason I stated above. Because I couldn't test it I
> uploaded it to experimental. May be you give it a triel. But don't
> blame me if it don't work!! Take it or ask me to remove it from
> there.
>
> Finally I took the smupsd which is shipped with RedHat and happyly
> I was successful. The package is available in potato. Please
> check the configuration file very carefully. It needs investigation
> by hand! (Any volunteers to add debconf stuff to the package???
> Unfortunately I have no time for this. May be anyone more experienced
> than me takes over the package. It is in a "works for me" state.)
>
> May be you can gain more information in a Hardware related mailinglist
> or newsgroup as I did.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
>
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