[Nut-upsuser] UPS MGE serial cable over network.

[Charles Lepple]

On Nov 17, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Arnaud Quette wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm forwarding your mail to the NUT list, because of a lack of time,
> and also since some others (Charles) already looked at this issue IIRC
> (related to the development branch 'netport').

There is a netport branch, but I don't know enough about the Personal Solution Pac software to say whether that branch could be merged into PSP.

Handoko: Do you know how the serial-over-IP adapter handles baud rates?

> cheers,
> Arnaud
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> 
> Le 10 nov. 2011 08:21, "Management" <management at multikreatif.net> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Please forgive me by emailing this to you.  I am not sure you are the one who also program the “Personal  Solution_Pac” software. If you do, I have a question on it.
>> I have MGE (eaton) EllipseMax 1500. I want to monitor the UPS remotely. The device I use is a serial over IP .  The setting looks like this :
>> 
>> UPS --> Standard MGE serial cable --> serial over IP --> internet --> PC running virtual com port & Personal Solution-Pac (windows xp)
>> 
>> it can not work....
>> 
>> Some test I tried :
>> 1. UPS direct connect using serial cable (no serial over IP), it work on the same PC ( the PSP software can monitor it)
>> 
>> 2. using the same serial over IP device, connect to a serial com on a router, I can remotely connect to the virtual com port and control the router ( on the same PC)
>> 
>> 3. little experiment:
>> --->  First, I connect the UPS directly to PC. Then I unplug the main power of the UPS to simulate electricity power is down. The PSP software start a warning that  power is down in every 1 minute. Now, I switch the connection of the UPS right away from PC to the serial over IP device ( that already standby).  Switch the PSP to use the virtual port.... now somehow, the PSP will still warning me about the power down for another 2 warning... then it stop...
>> 
>> 4. the serial over IP device (embeded Linux ) and the virtual port software, they actually base on a open source  http://com0com.sourceforge.net/
>> 
>> Any help on how PSP software works ? is there a way to test the serial port on UPS using hyperterminal ?
>> 
>> Any help I will be very appreciate it
>> 
>> Thank you for reading
>> Handoko
>> 
> 
> You should contact Eaton software support.
> 
> Arno

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