NUT Config

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Robert Bell wrote:

>
>> You shouldn't have to make any devices.  One point of the udev device 
>> manager in FC4 is that it creates and destroys USB device nodes as the 
>> devices are attached and detached.  The device created when my APC UPS
>> is detected is /dev/hiddev0.
>> 
>> 
> Thanks ! Is there anything simpler than NUT? I don't need any network 
> monitoring. I just want my UPS to work. CyberPower used to have a Linux 
> driver but it seems to be gone now. The hidups driver says /dev/hiddev0 is 
> not a UPS. I'm trying now to figure out what device IS my UPS.

For APC UPSs there's apcupsd (not part of FC4, but it can be found). 
Otherwise, I'm not aware of anything.

Nut is a bit of a pain to configure, but you're only going to configure it 
once, and then it will work pretty much unattended.  The USB bug probably 
won't go away until fixed in the kernel unless you have a way to 
communicate with the UPS via network or serial port.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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