[Nut-upsuser] Old fashion UPS monitoring

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Morgan Lindstrom wrote:
> I have a box that monitors the surrounding environment and sends a
> signal to a debian machine when it is time to shut down, according to
> the developers of the box it uses and old standard of UPS signaling.
> It is super simple, it just changes the DCD status to high when it is
> time to shut down. Has anybody heard of this kind of signaling, i
> have googled without success. But maybe someone on this list can help
> me sort thit out?

Check out the generic UPS driver, it can monitor for this sort of UPS, 
you need to tell it what lines are connected to which event.

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