Re: [Apcupsd-users] Using the SU-3000's ethernet interface

[Neal M. <nea...@al...>]

On Friday 21 February 2003 08:38 pm, David Walser wrote:
> What version do you have?  If you are using 3.10.5 you
> can do:
> UPSTYPE net
> DEVICE hostname-of-master
>
> in apcupsd.conf for the machines plugged into the UPS,
> but not connected to it with a cable.  The "master"
> would be connected with a cable and running apcupsd
> also.

Yup. I could do that. But that still requires the 'master' to
be connected to the UPS via serial cable.

I want to connect each host to the UPS via ethernet. After all, isn't
that what the ethernet interface is supposed to accomplish?

Or, at the very least, connect one system (the master, I suppose) to
the UPS via ethernet and have the other systems connect to the master.

But I don't want to have to use a serial cable. The whole point of buying
these UPSen with ethernet interfaces was to eliminate the need for
the serial cables.

Or have I completely misunderstood the functionality of the APC UPS
ethernet interface, in that the UPSen can only be operated/monitored/
controlled using a serial cable interface? Which would make the ethernet
interface rather pointless and worthless....

Neal