Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3 and UPS setup

[Gerald Waugh <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 12:39, RaQ Manager wrote:
> >We have 2 Raq3's that we have tried to hook up to our UPS system and it
> >doesn't seem to work.
>
> We spent several days with Cobalt technical support on this issue. It was
> escalated several levels and determined that it just didn't work
> (especially with two RaQs - there were even more issues with the master and
> slave scenario). Could it be that no one tried to use that function before
> we did so that Cobalt was unaware of the problem and it took days for them
> to determine that it was broken?
>
> Last I heard they were referring it to Engineering (I think that's the name
> they used) who were to contact me when the issue was resolved... that was
> many months ago. We now have a diesel generator on line so it's not as
> important to us any more.

I also worked on this issue several months ago. I never did get it to work,
I tried special "Linux" serial cables (from APC $39.00) and every trick, I 
could think of.
We have installed a natural-gas generator, and just forgot about the issue.

-- 
-Gerald