RE: [cobalt-developers] Re: RaQ3 UPS solutions

["Lyle Scheer" <lyle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> It seems as if the product is targeted to the APC SmartUPS
> line. Is that
> correct ?

Correct.

> If so, then the documentation should state that. As
> it is now,
> the documentation only states that Cobalt recommends APC. The
> rest is left
> as an exercise the to the reader.

Noted!

> When I looked at the source code, it appears that you had
> also modified the
> "drivers" for the other APC models (backup and backupspro).

I do not recall modifying the other drivers other than for localization.  (I
extracted all strings using gettext)

> I
> know that I
> can't access these models from the front panel, but do you
> think that the
> model type could be changed  by editting the
> /etc/sysconfig/ups file to
> change the ups MODEL ? Are there other dependences that I
> didn't pick up.

Yep, I suspect that will work as well as the smartupstools of the version I
compiled.  I made no other changes than the localization.

> It would seem that I could install the latest version of
> smartupstools (now
> NUT - Net UPS Tools). I would lose the LCD power status
> messages that you
> added, but would still retain the ability to configure the
> package through
> the front panel
> (/etc/lcd.d/10main.m/15CONFIGURE_UPS.s/10configure_ups may
> need to be modified to support any different options for the current
> pacakge). Does this sound correct to you ?

Yes... I also made some modifications to the code that allowed greater
configurability of the SmartUPS models and added a config file for "my"
configurability.  Newer versions of NUT may have their own form of
configurability.