I have an APC 2200 RM they use an nonstard pin layout for their serial
conenction I have the pin layout details somewhere. However I haven't
got round to setting it up so if anyway has a useful daemon for NetbSD
I too would be inteersted.



On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, William O Ferry wrote:

>     I recently picked up an APC Network PowerCell, which from what I can
> make out is a rather old 600VA SPS.  It has a monitoring port on the
> back of it, but the documentation pinouts seem odd to me, I'm not sure
> if this thing can be hooked up to a serial port even with an adapter.
> 
>     Is anybody using one of these UPSes?  Would you happen to know what
> pin gets mapped to where in the adapter cable?  Can you recommend a
> simple unix daemon (that works with NetBSD, obviously) that could shut
> down a machine when the UPS signals the power fail line?
> 
>     Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> 
>                                                           Will Ferry
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