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.
it could evtl. be so easy :-(
$ grep usb /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf # ether, usb ] # UPSTYPE [ dumb | apcsmart | net | usb | snmp | test] # usb /dev/usb/hid/hiddev[0-9] If you follow our naming scheme # usb /dev/usb/hiddev[0-9] On some systems
if you have no success with nut you can give apcupsd a chance
http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/configure.html#ConfigGeneral
download install edit /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf ready
-- shrek-m
