[e-smith-devinfo] Re: UPS Software

2001-07-29 Thread Richard Ford
> My (limited) experience is that each model of UPS is different so this may > not work. Running powstatd -t should have made it clear which, if any, > begining state setting you needed to change. Yup just read it and watched - trial and error. The default settings were tracking the wrong signa

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: UPS Software

2001-07-29 Thread Graeme Robinson
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Richard Ford wrote: > I did a straight cut and paste of the APC config section from the readme > file that Charlie made. My (limited) experience is that each model of UPS is different so this may not work. Running powstatd -t should have made it clear which, if any, begin

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: UPS Software

2001-07-29 Thread Richard Ford
Ok. I will read the man pages. What did happen with powerstad -t is that I got a scrolling list of info down the page. Four columns. But no "text message". I did a straight cut and paste of the APC config section from the readme file that Charlie made. I will investigate further. The 5 min

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: UPS Software

2001-07-28 Thread Graeme Robinson
Quoting Richard Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > G'Day All, > > I ended up installing Charlies powstatd add-on for UPS monitoring. > > Now following Graeme's how to I got the following results. > > With the powerstad -t command and pulling or plugging back in the power > to > the UPS. One of the v

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: UPS Software

2001-07-03 Thread Richard Ford
yself some grief. :) Richard. - Original Message - From: "Graeme Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "dev info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo]

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: UPS Software

2001-07-03 Thread Graeme Robinson
At 11:12 AM 04/07/2001 +1000, Richard Ford wrote: >Thanks Graeme, > >Did you ever try the apcupsd? What swung you towards powerstatd? the fact that an e-smith contrib for it had been written already (by Charlie Brady). If you trawl the phorums tho you'll notice that people have used other ups

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: UPS Software

2001-07-03 Thread Richard Ford
Thanks Graeme, Did you ever try the apcupsd? What swung you towards powerstatd? Cheers, Richard. - Original Message - From: "Graeme Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "dev info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 8:54 AM Subject: R

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: UPS Software

2001-07-03 Thread Graeme Robinson
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Richard Ford wrote: > Can the setup allow for many clients to be shutdown by the one master > client. Yes. I would refer you to the powstatd documentation though - I haven't tried it myself, just read about it. It uses a master on a fixed IP with slave versions listening to