[Apcupsd-users] UPS on serial<->Ethernet converter?

[Kunszt A. <arp...@sy...>]

	Hi!

  I'm new on this list. I'm a system administrator in a small ISP. We 
have lots of switches several buildings. Sometimes there is power loss 
in this buildings and our service is stop. The main reason is a fuse 
going down (is this the correct word?). We will buy one UPS for every 
switch to decrease the downtime, but we need to know about the power 
loss. If we doesn't know about it we can't send anyone to the building 
to turn on the fuse. We have only Ethernet access in this buildings 
(fiber/UTP). So this is the scenario.
   I saw about 1-2 years ago a Blackbox made "serial<->Ethernet 
converter".  This device has got an IP address and when I telnet to the 
7000 TCP port I can access the RS232 port on the device. I can 
communicate with a modem and a Linux machine (getty) with this toy.
   I plan to use this solution (UPS<-serial 
cable->[box]<-Eth->[apcupsd])  because it's very cheap comparable to the 
external SmartSlot device + SmartSlot Ethernet Management card (this 
more expensive than to UPS itself :-().
   Will this work? Support apcupsd this? Or the UPS communicate a 
different way on the serial line? Or it isn't supported by the apcupsd 
but it can work with self-made programs?
   Thanks for any idea,

   Arpad Kunszt

PS: Sorry for my bad english. :-(