Dan Hugo wrote: > > Opti-UPS gets great reviews in the general press, but no connection > (that I have found, HOWTO's or otherwise) between any Linux users and > that brand of UPS. > > Does anyone know anything about the Opti-UPS's? I sent mail to their > tech support today asking if they support Linux in any way, but I would > like to know if anyone has any experience with them. >
About a year ago we converted an NT box to Linux (yippee!) but had to toss the Opti-UPS that was attached to it. Opti-UPS's only have a smart signalling mode. Most all linux ups software can only use the dumb signalling mode. This is of course because every company (stupidly IMHO) keeps the specs for their smart signalling modes proprietary. The only smart signalling mode linux ups monitoring daemon I know of is apcd (which is a debian package), but it only works with APC UPSs (but I think only with certain APCs). The smart signalling mode was reverse engineered by it's author. I've never used it so I can't vouch for it. All the computers here use APC UPS's (and the debian package genpower) and they work just great with Linux. APC UPS's are little more expensive, but IMO are worth it. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .