Re: APC UPS PowerChute PLUS exploit...

[sstone () UME PHT CO JP (Scott Stone)]

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Pascal Gienger wrote:

> Due to many e-mails received of people wanting the source of the
> freely available upsd, I sent this mail to the list.
>
> upsd-1.0 was programmed by a guy at Wildwind Communications. It
> used the dumb mode of APC SmartUPSes and is depreciated.
>
> Then, also at Wildwind Communications, upsd-2.0 appeared. It uses
> active ("intelligent") mode of the SmartUPS and reports actual
> configurations, voltages, etc to the syslog.
>
> Problem: Wildwind Communications seem to no longer exist on the net.
> Their FTP site is no longer registered at InterNIC (ftp.ww.net).
>
> So I put the source at our anonymous FTP server for download.
> Please write your own settings for your UPS (configurable parameters)
> in apc_static.c, because they are changing from one country to
> another. Feedback and working configurations would be appreciated.
> I use this upsd with FreeBSD 2.2.5 and a SmartUPS 700.

There's also a program available called 'apcupsd' which has some really
nice features if you have an APC UPS.  I'm using it w/ a BkPro500 and it
works great.  The machine with the UPS will even let other machines on the
network know when there are power problems.

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