[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Tripp Lite Internet Office 500 UPS and I want to set up a power > monitoring daemon. Tripp Lite has an rpm package (no source) [cut] > In partucular, I'd like to know if anyone has tried their software
Sorry, I have not. > and also > the more generic UPS packages like genpower. I have 4 CyberPower UPSes, and have packaged powstatd which supports them in dumb mode out-of-the-box. I installed genpower prior to packaging powstatd. I learned a lot about the inner working of init from its docs, and almost got it working (I could monitor and shutdown correctly, but I never got it to kill the UPS). I also tried a few other packages. In particular, `upsd' installs itself _completely_ and assumes you have an APC UPS. It mistakingly read the serial port from my UPS as _battery low_ and shutdown the system. I had to reboot in single-user mode, remount / read-write and remove the package to be able to boot up correctly... Ouch. If you want, you can try powstatd. It's quick and easy to setup and you might be lucky. I made a slink package and it's available at: ftp://dollar.biz.uiowa.edu/pub/segre/powstatd_1.3-0slink1_i386.deb Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 60 Maintainer: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.2-0slink1 Provides: ups-monitor Depends: libc6 Conflicts: ups-monitor Conffiles: /etc/powstatd.conf f61464fb9afb2ee6becb581834fcccd5 /etc/init.d/powstatd 3507245097b6635e400ae7fe64d14e74 /etc/init.d/powerfail 90decc5b0e2767f40302b2f8d71dba8a Description: Configurable UPS monitoring daemon Assuming you have a relay-based "dumb" UPS that corresponds with your machine via a serial connection, you should be able to configure powstatd in just a few minutes. Powstatd is known to run with a variety of Cyberpower UPS supplies (Power99 325VA, 400VA, 500VA and 720VA, Power2000 1500VA, and some older 385VA and 450VA models) and various older APC units. Powstatd is easily configured, and can be expected to support most "dumb" UPS supplies. . Powstatd can also be configured to allow a master machine to control (Via a network connection) up to 2 (by default) additional slave machines connected to the same UPS. This allows you to run several machines off the same UPS, with only one of the machines actually reading the UPS status over the serial line. If you end up with a working /etc/powstatd.conf, send it to me along with the exact make and model of the UPS and I'll add it to the examples. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/
