I have a network with two older systems protected by APC UPSs. Both
systems run OS/2 and will continue to do so. Both systems have APC
PowerChute Plus 4.2.3 installed and I can use that software to monitor
and control both systems.
I am also now running several linux systems, in fact I spend almost all
my time on the linux systems and these OS/2 systems are servers running
in the background which need to be protected. Thus I would like to be
able to monitor the UPSs connected to the OS/2 systems from a linux
system. Unfortunately that appears to be problematic. The PCP 4.x
software appears to use Lan Server for its network protocol while the
later APC software uses TCP/IP for networking. The Windows/WfWG version
of 4.x lacks network support. The linux version of 4.x is not binary
compatible with modern linux systems and is closed source.
I have posted on the APC forums and they have had nothing further to
suggest to me other than to check third-party software or run the OS/2
software in a virtual machine. Given this, I am posting this to ask if
there is backward compatibility in your package that would permit me to
monitor my UPSs connected via the OS/2 UPSD 4.2.3 software. If not, I
guess I will need to look elsewhere.
Dave
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