On 9/24/07, Steve Snyder <swsnyder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. > > Having just gotten a new APC UPS, I would like to configure NUT to read > it's state via the USB connection. > > The presence of the UPS is recognized by the system, as shown by this line > written to the system log: > > hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Device [American Power Conversion Back-UPS XS > 1500 LCD FW:837.H5 .D USB] on usb-0000:00:0f.2-2 > > So now I need the NUT daemon to monitor this connection and, apparently, > configure the NUT client to query the daemon. This is for a local system > only, no web or network access to status is needed. > > Can someone point me to a description of how to set up NUT for this > context? I used NUT prior to switching to RHEL5. Now I can monitor my APC UPS directly with hal. If you don't want to bother with NUT you might check to see if you can use hal-get-property to obtain the information you want directly. John
