On Nov 5, 9:15, Carlos Murillo wrote:
> At 11:42 PM 11/4/01 -0600, Jeffrey wrote:
> >On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Carlos Murillo wrote:
> >> I do have the special cables for connecting the ups to the serial
> >> ports ($41 direct from APC-yikes! but the pin-out was propietary).
> >I think that, on some models at least, APC UPSes just use DSR and CTS
> >instead of transmitting data. The place I used to work at made their
own
> >all the time.
>
> I did investigate the pin-out after I bought mine; they seem to use
> all pins and I seem to remember that a couple are looped back?
> Anyway, they sure were nonstandard. They have different kinds of
> cables, though.
Have you looked at the Network UPS Tools project?
http://www.exploits.org/nut/ has information about lots of UPS stuff,
inculding APC. See in particular the 3rd Q/A in the FAQ at
http://www.exploits.org/nut/library/faq.txt
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 12:36:00 GMT