Verily did Joao Carlos Mendes Luis write:

>> The problem is that APC likes to make money off of their "Power-Chute"
>> software, and they require an NDA (or worse) to get a peek at the 
>> interactive UPS codes.

>   All right.  Is there a NetBSD PowerChute version ?

[...]

>   I'll do the job anyway, but if there was a version of PowerChute for
> NetBSD it would be nice, since it create logs for line voltage,
> brownouts, internal temperature and autotests.  Surely, it's worth
> the money (US$ 100 last time I've seen, NetWare version) if you have
> a production server operating.

Speaking for Intel-class machines... the last I heard, they had one for
at least one of the commercial BSDs .. SCO or BSD/os.  Use compat-mode,
and voila.

As for non-Intel NetBSD machines, I think that they are left out in the
cold, unless/until they can emulate one of the popular commercial unices that
APC supports.

Side note:  When I was quite in touch with this information, APC did not
            even support SunOS 4.x.  Things may have changed wrt this,
            but I doubt it.

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