[Nut-upsdev] [Nut-upsuser] Powerware 9155 with SNMP card

[Arnaud Quette]

2007/8/10, Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org>:
> [...]
> Beware, I'm just typing along, so be prepared. I don't have an SNMP
> capable UPS either (Arnaud? :-) ),

point taken ;-) though I should have anticipated it
Note that the current MGE cards are web/snmp enabled, and that the
snmp support is basic, and focused on NSM support (HP-OV, ...). Check
that thread:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2007-February/002278.html

I'm (again on holidays for 2 weeks, but Jérôme will be back on the
next thursday.

Jérôme: can you please check on your side to provide Arjen a 66102 card?

About snmp-ups, I've not put much effort in it since my original effort.
It currently suffers from the same limitations than the early
newhidups (ref. my post to Peter few days ago).

It needs the meta / sub driver approach along with the following:
http://alioth.debian.org/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=198&group_id=30602&group_project_id=31

An interesting side effect is that the result should match the HID
driver Core, with the same needs and workflow (with trap instead of
interrupt...). How far are we from creating a meta-drv.c core
(implement the upsdrv_*() set, and call the sub driver {comm, mfr}
hooks)? Not that much imo!

Niklas Edmundsson iirc entered the team to work on the above. And
Kjell and Niels (and still a bit of me too) are maintaining the "sub
drivers".

Protocols are more and more standardizing, and I'm sure we'll soon
face that need of a meta driver core again.

cheers,
Arnaud
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