From: Yedidyah Bar-David (didi_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 15 Jun 2004 - 08:32:43 IDT
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:18:46AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:08:46AM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> >
> > > Have you tried asking Advice?
> >
> > I do not really see a point in this. Since they give the upsmon.tar
> > thing, why should they care about nut?
>
>
> In general, mentioning Linux, when appropriate, is likely to promote
> it. More specifically, if you told them in advance that you are running
> Linux it could be that you were told that the nut is not working with
> that ups, at least saving some of your time. And regarding upsmon, what
> about support for upsmon? Upgrades? Can't it stop working when you will
> upgrade the software? Worse, it will continue to work in a partial
> manner, and the user will find that out in the wrong circumstances. In
> addition, the nut has many features which I believe are not available
> with upsmon. For example, network capabilities, one framework for many
> ups vendors, one framework for different users, and probably more.
I agree - nut is way superior. I just didn't do my homework, partly
because I wanted to buy it quickly. As I said, I only learned about
nut after I bought it. BTW, the "user" is me. I wouldn't do such a
thing for tau - here we do have our share of linux hardware compatibility
problems, but we do try more.
>
>
> > I saw in google that you were
> > involved with this a few years ago. Did you contact them? Did they
> > help?
>
>
> I did contact them. They did help me. In general I find their service
> to be reasonably good until it comes to software issues. Either they are
> not allowed and/or don't want to expose the data or that they don't know
> it and didn't bother to find out.
>
OK. Let's hope I'll manage to do better. Not very likely, if you ask me.
>
> > And it was shipped without a serial cable, and I bought one only
> > last eve (a few hours before posting).
>
>
> Was it purchased directly from them? I think you should complain about
> it. At least in the past the norm was to provide a serial and power
> cable with the ups. Maybe this norm was changed. Once again, complaining
> even though it seems pointless might help someone else.
>
It was purchased from getit.co.il and their seller was arrowtech.co.il.
In Advice's website it says that in this model (and this one only, it's
the cheapest) it's optional. I contacted Advice and they said it's
indeed supplied only with 600VA and up. The price difference in getit,
BTW, is 70NIS, and the cable cost me 40NIS. So for 30 NIS I would get
15% more VAs (I am not sure it's 15% more time - does anyone know? I
guess they do not have a different battery for each model, only the
power supply is different).
> In addition, I believe that this discussion is *On* Topic (OT).
OK. I'll take out the OT. I agree it now became very on-topic.
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