You might also want to go to www.exploits.org/nut
(Network UPS Tools)
This is a new utility which allows monitoring of the UPS and shutting
down the machine. The monitoring can be done via a web page.
It can also monitor several UPS units from one web page. It supports
several brands of UPS including APC, Fenton, Best, Powercom and
Triplite
Rich
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Chris Egolf wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck using APC's PowerChute Plus for Linux?
>
> I've got an APC Back-UPS 500 and I've downloaded the 4.5.2 version of
> PowerChute Plus. The serial cable is connected to COM2 (/dev/ttyS1),
> but when I run the Config.sh utility I get the following messages:
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > WARNING: Port must be configured for modem control in order to work with a
> > "Simple" Signaling UPS
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > WARNING: Could not communicate with device on /dev/ttyS1.
> > Check that the communications cable is attached properly to both the device
> > and the serial port.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > WARNING: Serial communications never verified, the installed product may
> > not work properly. You may want to try the following:
> >
> > 1) Check that specified serial device exists.
> > 2) Check the device configuration is appropriate for your UPS type
> > 3) Rebuild or create the serial device using the utility appropriate
> > for your system.
>
> The documentation and their website isn't much help, unless I'm missing
> something.
>
> What does 'Port must be configured for modem control' mean?
> Do I have to use the setserial command to configure ttyS1 somehow?
>
> BTW, the serial cable works fine on the same UPS under NT4.0.
>
> Thanks
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