<p>Just my experiences speaking, look at another brand. I use MGE/Eaton and have had much better life and the quality has been much better. APC does not release the protocol for comunicating with the UPS and so to get NUT to work you have to sniff the traffic and then figure out what the commands and responses mean.(thus reverse engineered) APC also will change the protocol between models. (Thus why that model is not listed, it may work, it may not)</p>
<p>I have had four APC brand UPS units melt the batteries. We bought 13 identical units in one order. One blew up on power up. One had loose connections giving a false ground issue. Four did not have all the holes tapped out for mounting. And 6 were rusty. Those were the last APC units we bought.</p>
<p>Eaton Evolution line is the old MGE brand and we have had great service from them as well as working with NUT.</p>
<p>Just my $0.02 worth.<br></p>
<p>And for the record I do not work for Eaton or have any affiliation with NUT other than a long time user.</p>
<p>Doug</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 17, 2013 5:09 PM, "Paul O'Rorke" <<a href="mailto:paul@tracker-software.com">paul@tracker-software.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi all,<br>
<br>
I am completely new to NUT and setting up a UPS shut down in Linux.
I am looking at buying a APC Smart-UPS X 3000. When I look this
device up in the compatibility list this specific model is not
listed, only a generic entry for "Smart-UPS". It says to use the <b>apcsmart</b>
driver. The legend shows this as "protocol based on reverse
engineering". What does this mean in terms of using the driver?
Can I expect to get this working to shut down my Debian servers
gracefully or is it a bad idea to use a UPS with only this driver?<br>
<br>
Have users on this list experience with a similar Smart-UPS? Is it
going to be compatible with NUT or should I be looking for a
different UPS that is supported with one of the other drivers?<br>
<br>
Sincerely<br>
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