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genpower-1.0.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Jul 23 03:18:58 1995
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 14:46:10 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: Tom Webster <webster@kaiwan.com>
Subject: genpower-1.0.1
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
Keywords: UPS, shutdown, powerd, battery, unipower
Announcing genpower-1.0.1
Generic UPS Monitoring For Linux
This is the 1.0.1 release of the genpower (Generic Power Monitoring for
Linux) package. In reality, this is a maintenance release of the
unipower package under a new name. (I was requested to change the name
by a firm that is marketing software under the name UniPOWER.)
NEW FEATURES:
* Users can now select from preconfigured UPS and cable
configurations at runtime. With a sufficient body of UPS and
cable configurations, this should allow most users to just
compile genpower 'right out of the box' and select the desired
configuration while installing.
* genpower will return an error code if it is unable to kill the
UPS's inverter during the shutdown process. This allows for
better error handling.
* genpower can now use the serial data transmit line for
inverter shutdown with the normal command syntax.
WHAT GENPOWER DOES:
The genpower package is basically a hack of Miquel van Smoorenburg's
powerd daemon, which is distributed in the SysVInit package. The
express aim of the genpower package is to add additional functionally
and a simpler means of configuring UPS monitoring, in a full featured
suite that can be configured to work with most UPSs featuring an RS232
monitoring port.
Depending on the UPS, cable, and the manner in which the genpower
package is configured, the genpower package provides the following
features:
* Line power sensing, to detect when the power has failed and
initiate a delayed shutdown, or other appropriate actions.
This facility also allows the system to cancel the shutdown if
power is restored before the system is shutdown.
* Low battery detection, to detect when the UPS's battery is
running low and initiate an immediate shutdown.
* Physical cable detection, to detect connection errors.
* The ability to kill the UPS's inverter. This shuts the
inverter on the UPS off, to prevent the system from draining
the UPS's battery after it has shutdown. This allows the
system to restart itself, as if the power had been turned on
when line power is restored.
Additionally, this helps the UPS to retain enough power to
deal with power yo-yos, where the power comes up and goes down
several times before being fully restored.
* The unitest program, included in the genpower package, will
monitor the status of a serial line and report changes in the
status of the line. The information provided by unitest can
then be used to configure the genpower package for your UPS
and cable combination.
Here is the LSM:
Begin3
Title: genpower
Version: 1.0.1
Entered-date: 16JUL95
Description: Highly configurable UPS monitoring software with support
for: automated shutdown, low battery detection, inverter
shutdown, and more. This package replaces my unipower
package.
Keywords: UPS, shutdown, powerd, battery, unipower
Author: webster@kaiwan.com (Tom Webster)
Maintained-by:
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/UPS
43kb unipower-1.0.0.tgz
1kb unipower-1.0.0.lsm
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platforms: Linux system with UPSs supporting RS232 monitoring,
SysVInit package installed.
Copying-policy: GPL
End
Tom Webster
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