Re: USB support for UPSes

[Steve <steve@szmidt.org>]

On Monday 16 February 2004 03:42 am, Ales Stibal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > On 2004-02-15 20:35:19 +0000, Chris Howells wrote:
> > > I haven't had a go at this yet but I belive it should just be a
> > > matter of buying a serial cable, snipping on end of, and crimping
> > > an RJ-45 connector on the other end.
> >
> > Somewhat OT: Are there any UPSes that simply have a NIC and
> > provide the information through snmp/http/...?
>
> AFAIK APC UPSes do have support for "management module". This module
> is equipped with network card. There is snmp support and some sort of
> ugly management telnet interface on it.
>
> Don't know details (not interested in hw much), see APC web ...
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> 	Astib();

For my Symmetra its $365 for that module.
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