APC SmartUPS 1000XL VA

"Michael J. McGillick" <mmcgillick@xxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:53:31 -0400

Good Evening:

I’m trying to get my new APC SmartUPS 1000XL VA ups to
talk correctly to my Red Hat Linux 9 box. The only connection I can use from
the APC with my system is the USB connection, as this machine does not have a
serial port. I hooked everything up, and looked at the Hardware Monitor under
Gnome. It says that it sees I have an APC BackUPS 500 connected (which is incorrect)
and couldn’t give me any further information about it.

I did read through the nut-1.2.0 documentation supplied, and
lot of the later steps all appear to hinge on me getting the Linux system to
properly recognize the type of unit I have. I also tried playing around with
the configuration files, but kept running into permission denied, or access
denied errors (even though I’m root) when trying to start upsdrvctl.

If anyone has configured this type of unit, or something
similar, I’d appreciate any feedback you might have on getting my system
to properly recognize this unit. Specifically, I need help with:

 Determining which USB port this unit is running on.
 How do I tell Linux about the hardware, and ensure it
     is using the correct driver.
 How do I correctly configure the configuration files to
     talk with this unit.

Would appreciate any help. Thanks.

P.S.

As a side note, does anyone know where the Hardware Monitor
pulls its information from?