On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 22:00, Michael J. McGillick wrote: > 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. > ---- FWIW I have used apcupsd with great success but only with serial ports. I don't recall any of the APC/UPS softwares that are capable of using USB connections. It may be possible to use USB. A serial card is rather inexpensive and I always vote for saving time. I much prefer apcupsd to the software that you can download from APC. I have never played with nut. There also is a Webmin module for apcupsd - it's a bonus. Craig
