Re: [Apcupsd-users] apcaccess not reporting any value but online status

[Xavier B. <xa...@ba...>]

On 03/01/2014 12:20 PM, Trevor Roydhouse wrote:
> Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>> On 02/28/2014 10:31 PM, William Smith wrote:
>>> Who or what is MGE?  We just had a discussion about how apcupsd is only written for APC UPS devices, so I'd suspect you are lucky it works at all…
>>
>> MGE is an UPS manufacturer. As I found their ID in
>> src/drivers/usb/usb_common.h as well as multiple references to MGE
>> elsewhere in the code, I thought it was more or less supported. Also, I
>> seemed to recall APC and MGE are somewhat linked together, but I'm not
>> sure so I'll need to check that.
> 
> In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined it with MGE UPS 
> Systems to form Schneider Electric's Critical Power & Cooling Services 
> Business Unit.
> 
> 
> apcupsd-3.14.9 release 3.14.9 brings a number of new features including…
> 
>      SNMP enhancements inclduing support for MGE and RFC1628 MIBs
>      Support for USB on 64-bit Windows platforms
> 
> Please see the Release Notes for details. July 22, 2011.
> 
> 
Ok, so here's the link between APC and MGE.
So MGE UPSs are supported, but only with SNMP. That doesn't apply in the
case of an USB link. I'll read the release note, thanks for the pointer.
However, why would the MGE id be defined in the usb code ? I'll take a
deeper look.

Thanks,
Xavier