UPS Monitoring

[Russell Adams]

There is an older SNMP adapter for APC UPS's that fits on the serial
port. I have them all over the place at work, since most of our
refurbed UPS's don't have the NICs.

Its the APC SNMP Adapter, mine are running firmware v2.2g. Its a white
box about the size of a DSL modem that plugs into the serial port, and
has a 10-baseT jack. Configure your BOOTP server with its MAC,
configure the snmp adapter via direct serial interface, and then start
polling over SNMP.

There's also a environmental monitor you can chain onto them that
gives you external temp/humidity from wherever you mount the external
monitor. Its just another little white box on a serial cable. ;]

Whats also handy is that the environmental monitor also has 6 relay
contact switches that you can use for remote signalling via SNMP. For
example, take a magnetic door sensor and put the wires into the
external monitor. When the magnet moves, and the circuit breaks, the
device will send an SNMP trap to your host.

I think you can find these on Ebay, they fit any APC UPS on the serial
port.

Russell

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:19:15PM -0600, donavan nelson wrote:
> 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
> 
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Pivert <pivert_home at yahoo.fr>
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> 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 ? 20:22, Jeff McKeon a ?crit :
> > > 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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