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On Monday 24 February 2003 12:47 pm, Graham Smith wrote:

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:22, Christopher D. Reimer wrote:

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Greetings!

I'm thinking about getting an APC Back-UPS CS 350VA USB to automatically shutdown my small file/DSL/firewall server (AOpen micro-ATX motherboard, Cyrix M2-333Mhz, 128MB, 10GB IDE hard drive, SCSI cdrom drive, and no monitor).

Does anyone have any experience with this particular UPS?

Does the stock SuSE 7.3 kernel support a USB UPS or do I have to hack and patch the kernel to make it work?

Recommend a similar model with serial support for under $100 USD?

Thanks!

Christopher Reimer

I have not used that model APC UPS, but I suggest you have a look at the following URL regarding software & interfacing. http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd/

I had little trouble with nut and a USB APC UPS:

1. Make sure the 'nut' package is installed

2. Edit /etc/sysconfig/smartups for the following values and run SuSEconfig:

SMARTUPS_MODEL="hidups" SMARTUPS_DEVICE="usb/hid/hiddev0"

3. Edit /etc/init.d/ups and comment out the following lines (bit of an oversight on SuSE's part):

# case "$SMARTUPS_DEVICE" in # ttyS[0-9]|ttyS[1][0-9]|ttyS[2][0-3]) # ;; # *) # echo -n "change SMARTUPS_DEVICE in /etc/sysconfig/smartups" # rc_failed 6 # rc_status -v # rc_exit # esac

4. Run 'insserv ups', then 'rcups start'

You should be able to use the following command to get the status:

upsc myups@localhost

You'll get output similar to mine:

host: myups@localhost MFR: Generic MODEL: Back-UPS ES 725 FW:802.n2.D USB SERIAL: ********** STATUS: OL BATTVOLT: 1.2 BATTPCT: 100 RUNTIME: 1275 LOADPCT: 2

If you want access from other systems, (I have two computers on mine) setup the ACLs in /etc/ups/upsd.conf to grant 'monitor' access to your slave's IP(s). Then you can run a second node in slave mode by simply setting SMARTUPS_MASTER to your server's IP in /etc/sysconfig/smartups, then SuSEconfig, 'insserv ups', then 'rcups start'.

If you want to use the nice CGIs, then you have to edit /etc/ups/hosts.conf.

Hope that helps.

- -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com