UPS Monitoring

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Sat Jul 9 14:57:38 CEST 2005


On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, PD wrote:

> On Friday 08 July 2005 22:42, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
>> In order to run check_ups, you need to be running Network UPS Tools (NUTs)
>> instead of the vendor provided software.
>
> Hm... means... UPS - NUTs - check_ups plug-in - Nagios engine - SMSD
>
> and... how if we choose using MIB ?
> is it UPS - check MIB every 60 second - Nagios engine - SMSD ?

If you choose the MIB route, you need either firmware in the UPS that 
talks SNMP or an SNMP agent on the host that talks to UPS over the serial 
connections.

In both cases you still need a software to control the host shutdown 
sequence.

>
>> If the cable is the same as a Fenton UPS cable thats fine, but of more
>> inportance is the protocol.  You mentioned the software was RUPS, hence my
>> guess is RUPS protocol.
>
> exactly the same with the pin out too.
>
>> Both fenton and rups are supported by NUTs.
> Ok.. I will try on the other machine first
>
> Regards
>
> PD
>


-sg
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