Connecting to a Sola UPS

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Hi All

I currnely have a SOLA UPS. I am not sure what model it is to be totally
honest but it has the normal 1 input power socket and then 4 outputs. If
anyone knows how I can find the model do let me know. On the back it also
has a serial port, I have tried connecting to this UPS using both CRT as
well as an application that I downloaded from the SOLA website call LAN
Safe, but I cant seem to connect to it at all. Has anyone got any
suggestions on this at all. As I really would like to be able to connect to
this device and have a play around really.

Thanks in advance

--
Kind Regards

Chris Kilian
www.networkingbasics.co.uk
www.ckconsultants.co.uk
 
CK said:
Hi All

I currnely have a SOLA UPS. I am not sure what model it is to be
totally honest but it has the normal 1 input power socket and then 4
outputs. If anyone knows how I can find the model do let me know. On
the back it also has a serial port, I have tried connecting to this
UPS using both CRT as well as an application that I downloaded from
the SOLA website call LAN Safe, but I cant seem to connect to it at
all. Has anyone got any suggestions on this at all. As I really
would like to be able to connect to this device and have a play
around really.

Thanks in advance
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"I have tried connecting to this UPS using both CRT as well as an
application ..."
CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)? What does your monitor have to do with your
UPS? The application is the *software* used to monitor your UPS, issue
alerts, and take action(s) based on configurable thresholds. The
software can't do anything unless the UPS is actually hooked up to your
computer. So what is the PHYSICAL connection between your computer and
the Sola UPS?

It may be that you need a special cable that connects from the RS-232
(COM1 serial port) on your computer to the modified RS-232 port on the
UPS. If so, it usually is marked "UPS" at one end. You have to get the
special DB-9 serial cable from Sola (unless they give you the pinouts
for the connectors at each end and you build your own). Their site may
have a user guide or manual you can download to find out how to connect
the UPS to your computer.

I have a 6+ year-old BestPower Fortress UPS and it required a special
serial cable. I had lost mine in a move. I couldn't get the pinouts
for the connectors so I had to order one from BestPower. It wasn't
cheap.
 
CK said:
wrote in news:[email protected]:

Then pick a longer moniker. You thought "CK" would really be long
enough to provide some uniqueness (within the range of newsgroups that
you visit)?
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It *has* provided some uniqueness. I regularly read six newsgroups, and have
for some years, and this has only come up a couple of times. And I wasn't
complaining, just saying.

So how many of the 36,000+ posts to usenet are yours
(http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:CK)?
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Coupla hundred, maybe.
 
To connect to that UPS, and to many other types, many of these manufactures
are using their own type of proprietary type cable configuration, even
though it looks like a standard serial cable. Infact, some of them go to the
trouble of putting some components moulded inside of their connectors.

If you get the original cable from the manufacture, and the UPS is operating
properly, then your computer will talk to it. I once called APC about a
cable, and they wanted too much for it.

My solution is that I use the UPS as a dumb UPS. They are designed to also
work that way. I plug it in to the AC outlet, and let it run the computer
using no UPS software. This also saves a little on resources. The UPS is
still going to run the computer during a power failure. The only difference
is that the computer will not be able to auto shut-down when there is a
power failure.

--

Jerry G.
==========================


Hi All

I currnely have a SOLA UPS. I am not sure what model it is to be totally
honest but it has the normal 1 input power socket and then 4 outputs. If
anyone knows how I can find the model do let me know. On the back it also
has a serial port, I have tried connecting to this UPS using both CRT as
well as an application that I downloaded from the SOLA website call LAN
Safe, but I cant seem to connect to it at all. Has anyone got any
suggestions on this at all. As I really would like to be able to connect to
this device and have a play around really.

Thanks in advance

--
Kind Regards

Chris Kilian
www.networkingbasics.co.uk
www.ckconsultants.co.uk
 
CK said:
It *has* provided some uniqueness. I regularly read six newsgroups,
and have for some years, and this has only come up a couple of times.
And I wasn't complaining, just saying.

So how many of the 36,000+ posts to usenet are yours
Coupla hundred, maybe.
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Yeah, okay. I started with Vanguard because no one in the newsgroups
that I was currently visiting had that moniker. When I did a Google
Groups search on "author:Vanguard", I found someone else had been using
that moniker in different newsgroups and had been doing so for some
time. I changed to *Vanguard* but Google search ignores
non-alphanumeric characters, so I changed to _Vanguard_ but there was a
link associated with the sender name (in Google)so the underscores
disappeared, so I'm now at Vanguardx. I just do a Google search on
author to see what one I might select that is unique (for now). But
only 2 characters in a name, well, that'll be pretty tough to keep
unique. Mine's at 9 charactes and I'd probably make it longer longer if
I had to change it again.

I figured you were just teasing the other CK poster, like a dozen Johns
in a class claiming only they can be called John (now why did the scene
from "Reservoir Dogs" pop into my head where the thugs got named Mr.
Orange, Mr. White, Mr. Black, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Brown, Mr. Blue, and Mr.
Pink?). :-P
 
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