UPS in a network

Bob Amen amen at oreilly.com
Mon Jul 21 21:01:07 CEST 2003


Claus Helbing wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have another question ...
> I have 2 UPS's in the network that I introduced as host and
> these ping fine. Then I found the check_ups plugin that can 
> talk to the "Newtork UPS Tools" of http://www.exploits.org/nuts/
> But it seems that the NUTS speak only to UPSs connected to a serial port :-(
> 
> Is there anyone that managed to get more information that just 
> ping of an UPS? Mine is an APEC SMART UPS.


	If your SMART UPS has an SNMP process running, you can use 
check_apc_ups.pl which is in the contrib directory in the nagios plugins 
distribution. I'm using that script and it works quite well. It even 
reports the time remaining on battery.

Cheers,
Bob
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				Bob Amen
			O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
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