UPS in a network

[claus]

Yes it speaks SNMP :-)
I will give it a try ... thank you.

Cheers,
Claus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Amen" <amen at oreilly.com>
To: "Claus Helbing" <claus.helbing at descom-consulting.ch>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] UPS in a network


> 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
> -- 
> Bob Amen
> O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
>     http://www.ora.com/
>   http://www.oreilly.com/
> 
> 



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