FENTONUPS

FENTONUPS

NAME NOTE SUPPORTED HARDWARE EXTRA ARGUMENTS BUGS AUTHOR SEE ALSO

NAME

fentonups - Driver for Fenton Technologies (Megatec protocol) UPS equipment

NOTE

This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the fentonups driver. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8).

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

fentonups primarily supports Fenton Technologies models such as the !PowerPal?, !PowerPure? and !PowerOn? lines. Due to the common heritage of UPS equipment, it also supports other hardware that also uses the Megatec protocol.

At the time of this writing, the !PowerGuard? PG-600 and

PowerCom? SMK-800A are recognized and supported. Other

Megatec units should also work, but they will generate a warning since their battery information is not known.

EXTRA ARGUMENTS

This driver does not support any extra values for -x or in the ups.conf(5).

BUGS

The battery percentage is derived from the voltage data that the UPS returns, since the UPS doesn't return that value directly. On some hardware, the charge will remain at 100% for a long time and then drops quickly shortly before the battery runs out. You can confirm from the BATTVOLT readings that this is a problem with the UPS and not this driver.

Similarly, the float from the charger in some models forces the battery charge percentage back up to 100% immedately after the UPS goes back on-line, so you can't tell when it is really recharged.

AUTHOR

Russell Kroll

SEE ALSO

The core driver:

nutupsdrv(8)

Internet resources:

The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.exploits.org/nut/

NUT mailing list archives and information: http://lists.exploits.org/