RE: APC UPS Network low battery network broadcast

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan,

I would guess that you need to emulate the UPSs SNMP (Simple Network
Management Protocol) message. However, I'm now out of my depth and while
I know "sort-of" what it is and does, anything further is beyond
me.

Yours is a neat idea though and if you can make the SNMP messages appear
to come from different UPSs then you have control over a number of PCs.

HTH somewhat,

Tim H.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: alanmiddleton74
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of software that will 'pretend' to be an APC
> UPS and broadcast a low battery warning over the network.
>
> I can find plenty of software that will respond; parachute
> etc but can't seem to locate anything that will send out the
> broadcast.
>
> Shame seems like a well supported way to remotely shutdown
> network devices as opposed to just computers. Don't want to
> go the x10 'pull the plug' route as I'd like to get an
> orderly shutdown.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Alan.