Re: GLUG: Can it be faked?

["Graeme Walker" <glug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You will need to contact the supplier / maker and see.

Graeme
----- Original Message -----
From: <KEpstein@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 2:33 PM
Subject: RE: GLUG: Can it be faked?


> Graeme,
>
> It's a micro line. I'm not sure if it can take a NIC. It's a fairly big
one,
> and it can supply all the equipment in my computer room with about 20
> minutes of power, before the battery runs flat.
>
> Rgds,
> Kevin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graeme Walker [mailto:glug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 January 2001 01:59
> To: KEpstein@xxxxxxxxx; glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: GLUG: Can it be faked?
>
>
> What UPS is it? I recently configured an APC UPS to autoshutdown via a
java
> app which works on anything with a JVM eg. NT / Linux via the network. You
> add a network card to the ups and Bob's your uncle!
>
> Graeme
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <KEpstein@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 1:15 PM
> Subject: RE: GLUG: Can it be faked?
>
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > Thanks for the ideas. I had though about an ethernet solution by having
> the
> > HP box write directly to the COM2 device file in /dev on my linux box. I
> > haven't yet decided exactly how I'll do this or even if it'll work.
> > Have you got any ideas on how to capture everything being written to the
> com
> > port?
> >
> > Rgds,
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Smith [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 03 January 2001 12:50
> > To: KEpstein@xxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: GLUG: Can it be faked?
> >
> >
> >
> > err
> >
> > Theoretical solutioni A :)
> >
> > Assumption: UPS sends power fail signal via serial cable
> > Assumption: Both machines are closish together
> >
> > Wire up a serial cable between the linux box and the HP box
> > Check what exactly is sent to the HP from the UPs, and then write
> > a program to use the HP's seconds com port , and send that signal down
> > the com port to the linux box. Then just have a script that runs, and
> > sends that signal to the linux box when the HP receives it.
> >
> > Possible solution to distance problem, with the assumption of a
functional
> > ethernet during power failures
> >
> > Wire up a com cable to plug from com port 1 on linux box to com port 2
> >
> > Write a program on the hp that would login to the linux box and run a
> > command that would send the appropraite ups signals down com1 on the
linux
> > box to be received by com2 on the linux box (com2 is being monitored by
> > the ups software) in the event of a power failure
> >
> > All purely theory of course, but it might give you some ideas
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Michael Smith (Warlock on IRC)
> > http://www.warlock.web.za/
> > "The software said Windows95 or better...
> >                 ...so I got Linux"
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 KEpstein@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I've got an interesting problem with a simple solution - buy a UPS.
> > > I'm not is a hurry to fork out cash though so I'll have to do it the
> hard
> > > way.
> > > I'm trying to make my linux box think that it directly attached to
> another
> > > UPS that's at the oposite side of my building.
> > > I have a UPS connected to a HP-UX 10.20 box, and when that box gets
the
> > > "power-fail" signal from the UPS, I'd like to the somehow get the
HP-UX
> > box
> > > to "be the ups" and send the same signal to my linux box. Basically I
> need
> > > the HP box to fake being a UPSas far as my linux box is concerned? Can
> > this
> > > be done?
> > >
> > > Rgds,
> > > Kevin
> > >
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