Re: hard crash despite UPS

[Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:37:12PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote:
> 
> > Have you tried APC's powerchute? I'm not sure about their recent versions
> > but have read one or 2 complaints in the past that they don't work on
> > Debian. I keep an older version around which works fine on debian 2.2
> > and 3.0 just incase I need to test. I put it here for now:
> >
> > http://portal.aphroland.org/pc452_glibc.tar.bz2
> 
> Hella evil program.  Wish there wasn't a dependency on having X installed
> just to talk to the ups.  I have a Smart-UPS 1000XL, with a UX24BP
>  battery backup attached.  (weighs about 300 lbs).  It has one of the
> snmp boards mounted in the smartslot.
> 
> Last I checked, nut and apcupsd didn't support talking to it via network,
> so I'm stuck with using powerchute.

Grab the MIB and roll your own tool using, for example, perl +
Net:SNMP

I have the MIB somewhere (or know someone who does :-) if you need it.

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