UPS Monitoring

[donavan nelson]

My issue is cabling from the UPS to the serial ports.  I think there is a
plugin for monitoring one or another of the UNIX tools available.

--
Donavan Nelson
4wx Networks
www.4wx.net

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To: "donavan nelson" <donavan at 4wx.net>, "Nagios List"
<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:37:53 -0500
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] UPS Monitoring

> Yeah, I've got 6 APC SMART-UPS 2200 (got them from dell on a 2 for 1 
> sale WOOT!) and they only have serial connections out of the box.  I 
> do however have (left over from a previous project) a Digi-neo PCI 8 
> port com card that should work quite nicely.
> 
> That combined with the check_UPS plugin and some other opensource UPS
> Management software that Andrew suggested should do the trick.  I'll 
> post my results and instructions when I've got it working if anyone 
> is interested...
> 
> Jeff
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "donavan nelson" <donavan at 4wx.net>
> To: "Nagios List" <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] UPS Monitoring
> 
> > That would require having an APC network card in the UPS.  I have several
> > SMART UPS's (2200's and 1400's) and they don't have USB or networks.  Just
> > serial ports.
> >
> > There has to be someway to monitor the UPS via the serial port.
> >
> > --
> > Donavan Nelson
> > 4wx Networks
> > www.4wx.net
> >
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> > From: Pivert <pivert_home at yahoo.fr>
> > To: Nagios List <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Sent: 18 Jan 2003 00:06:30 +0100
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] UPS Monitoring
> >
> > > Your direction should be snmp.
> > >
> > > You probably have a linux application with your ups that can give
> > > some information via snmp. I have an ellipse UPS serial(not usb) low
> > > end for home use an they give that on the CD.
> > >
> > > Bye
> > >
> > > Le ven 17/01/2003 à 20:22, Jeff McKeon a écrit :
> > > > Is there any kind of plugin out there that can monitor an APC-SMART
> > > > UPS?  I have six of these rack mount puppies in my datacenter and
> would
> > > > like to be able to hook them up to a linux box via com ports and have
> > > > nagios send an alert if one loses it's power feed.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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