On Saturday 11 August 2007, Bob Goodwin wrote: >Tim wrote: >> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> Bus 004 Device 015: ID 050d:0980 Belkin Components [F6C800-UNV Belkin >>> UPS] >> >> ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ >> >> Of course it'd be nice if your UPS monitoring software just found it by >> itself, or presented you with a list of candidates. > >It does not seem to do so, it being "nut," although I may have missed >something? > >I initially tried the Belkin provided Linux software which looks as >though it might be ok, it produces some pretty screens but it wont >accept the password I was asked to enter and verify. As a result I >can't begin to configure it. > >I will continue the effort later, just had my morning coffee ... > >Thanks. > >Bob Goodwin And when you do get it configured, it will turn into a cpu hog, virtually killing the system if either gkrellm or its own gui ever query it. I've tried to email them about it, but their replies always very carefully talk about other things. After 4 passes at making them understand that a module compiled on a red hat 5.1 system was not about to work on a modern system and being totally ignored, I asked the 5th time if I was trying to teach pigs to sing, and switched to apcupsd. I can at least query the status like this: [root@coyote Dailys]# service apcupsd status apcupsd (pid 4806) is running... APC : 001,024,0603 DATE : Sat Aug 11 04:58:07 EDT 2007 HOSTNAME : coyote.coyote.den RELEASE : 3.12.4 VERSION : 3.12.4 (19 August 2006) redhat UPSNAME : coyote.coyote.den CABLE : USB Cable MODEL : Belkin UPS UPSMODE : Stand Alone STARTTIME: Fri Aug 10 16:26:49 EDT 2007 STATUS : ONLINE BCHARGE : 100.0 Percent TIMELEFT : 2.0 Minutes MBATTCHG : 5 Percent MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes MAXTIME : 0 Seconds NUMXFERS : 0 TONBATT : 0 seconds CUMONBATT: 0 seconds XOFFBATT : N/A STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag SERIALNO : NOMBATTV : 120.0 APCMODEL : Belkin UPS END APC : Sat Aug 11 04:58:46 EDT 2007 I haven't had any power failures since, so I've NDI how it will react in that case. The original belkin sw would in fact issue a -wall broadcast and shut things down gracefully, when it worked... As far as configuration, apcupsd finds /dev/hiddev0 all by itself. If you have more than /dev/hiddevX, then it might need some guidance. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained." -- The Tao of Programming
