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

[Bernd Markgraf]

> Why? I see no reason not to commit these changes.
> 
> 1) the changes are small
> 2) they don't change existing behaviour
> 3) there is no impact on other drivers
> 4) we're in the development tree
> 5) the snmp-ups driver is flagged 'experimental'
> 
> All lights are green. In fact, I would like to get the opinion of other
> users with similar systems. The easiest way to get that, is to modify the
> development version. I'll commit this later today, with some small
> modifications to make it conform to the NUT standards.
fine with me :-)
what points did i miss to conform to the nut standards?

> Yes. But that will probably take some time, as this requires a
> considerable amount of development effort. Changing a few lines of code
> takes a lot less effort than rewriting a whole driver. I guess it might
> take at least a year or so, before we would have something of production
> quality. I don't want to keep you waiting that long.
So you just volunteered to implement the missing stuff for the snmp
driver? :-P The small change you proposed before seems to work, though
it takes quite a while (about 30secs) to get the status from WAIT to OL.

 Bernd