UPS Monitoring

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Tue Feb 4 21:19:59 CET 2003


First you need a daemon to monitor the status on the serail port - Take a 
look at Network UPS Tools on exploits.org.

Once you have NUT runnig, you can use check_ups in the standard plugin 
dist to monitor the state of the UPS via NUT.

-sg


On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, 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 à 20:22, Jeff McKeon a écrit :
> > > 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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