HP UPS Management Software for Solaris 9
Hi,
We are running an HP R3000 XR UPS, connected directly to our server.
I was wondering if there was any software available for Solaris 9 that we could use to manage this UPS. I would like it to perform simple tasks such as automatic shutdown and notification of a power failure.
I have looked at APC's Powerchute software but this only appears to be compatable with APC hardware (although I have not tested this so do not know for sure).
HP also appear to do something called HP Power Manager but it only appears to be available on HP-UX and not Solaris, fair enought I guess considering they are competing products.
All help and suggestions welcome.
Many thanks,
Tom
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thelazera] at [2007-11-27 6:21:07]
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Certainly possible, the connection is RS-232.
Actually to give a bit of background, we did have a UPS daemon that worked on an old server with an APC UPS however the source code has been lost. A bit of a pain because it would probably have been quite a simple task to modify the code so the software would work with the HP UPS.
I have tried running the old software on the new server and I get the following error.
Message from syslogd@bsmht-dl585 at Tue Jun 5 11:46:43 2007 ...
bsmht-dl585 pcl_upsd[8364]: [ID 812449 user.emerg] UPSD : mains fail at boot ? exiting !
The software also allows you to test the UPS, which gives a slightly more helpful message.
status: DTR_ RTS_ CTS_ DSR^ DCD^ *MAINS*:Ok *BATTERY*:Bad
Even though the UPS is working fine with all lights showing as they should.
This suggests to me that perhaps the HP UPS communicates on a different RS-232 pin for it抯 battery low signal. Is there anywhere though that I can confirm this as I am thinking it might be even easier if I can just adapt the cable?
As for writing some new software I found an open source one called Apcupsd (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/apcups/. Although it's for APCs UPSes) that could possibly be adapted to suit the HP UPS. Again though, I would require some information as to what pins the UPS communicates on?
