[Nut-upsuser] Experience with ABB Powerscale?

[gene heskett]

On 9/22/23 04:15, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> we may get a ABB Powerscale 40kVA UPS soonish and I am not 100% sure 
> whether we could integrate it easily with nut.
> 
At the price of that unit, if I were the buyer, its management software 
would support Linux, or you'll go on down the vendor list looking for a 
unit that does. This tough times is a buyers market and you have 
considerable $$$ leverage I'd think.  The list of supported os's below 
is archaic and largely obsolete. This is not 1990 anymore. Tell them to 
look at the calendar and bring their stuff up to todays marketplace.

> It will come with SNMP, but reading the docs does not fill me with 
> confidence, especially not as the mention OS/2, Novell and VMS (google 
> translation of [1]) is
> "
> The UPS Management WaveMon software also provides its data in this SNMP 
> format with its own internal Software agents are available. The one you 
> have The operating system used must support the SNMP and supports. We 
> offer our WaveMon software with SNMP functionality for Novell, OS/2 and 
> all Windows systems based on INTEL, ALPHA, DEC VMS and Apple computers 
> are running.
> "
> 
> It's not even clear to me, if the "SNMP-card" speaks SNMP natively or 
> one somehow needs this "WaveMon" software to translate propitiatory UPS 
> dat into SNMP.
> 
> Anyone on this list with some experience with this kind of UPS?
> 
> Cheers and thanks a lot in advance
> 
> Carsten
> [1]  Die USV-Manage-
> ment-Software WaveMon stellt ihre Daten auch in
> diesem SNMP-Format mit ihrem eigenen internen
> Software-Agenten zur Verfügung. Das von Ihnen
> verwendete Betriebssystem muss das SNMP un-
> terstützen. Wir bieten unsere WaveMon-Software
> mit SNMP-Funktionalität für Novell, OS/2 und alle
> Windows-Systeme an, die auf INTEL-, ALPHA-,
> DEC VMS- sowie Apple-Rechnern laufen.
> 
> 
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