1OPTIUPS(8)                        NUT Manual                        OPTIUPS(8)
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NAME

6       optiups - Driver for Opti-UPS (Viewsonic) UPS and Zinto D (ONLINE-USV)
7       equipment
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NOTE

10       This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the
11       optiups driver. For information about the core driver, see
12       nutupsdrv(8).
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SUPPORTED HARDWARE

15       optiups was originally written against a PowerES 280es in nut-0.45. It
16       was revised for nut-2.0.1 and tested against a PowerES 420E. It is
17       expected to work with at least the PowerES, PowerPS, and PowerVS
18       models.
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20       This driver additionally supports a Zinto D from ONLINE USV-Systeme AG
21       because of their very similar commands, but it is unknown if it also
22       works with other UPS from them.
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24       This driver will not work with the PowerES stock serial cable. You will
25       need to construct your own three conductor cable:
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27           UPS 6 -> PC 3
28           UPS 9 -> PC 2
29           UPS 4 -> PC 5
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31       The cable for Online-USV uses pin UPS 7 (not UPS 4) → PC 5.
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EXTRA ARGUMENTS

34       This driver supports the following optional settings in the ups.conf(5)
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37       status_only
38           Only poll for critical status information. Without this, optiups
39           (and all NUT drivers) poll all sorts of information from the UPS
40           fairly often. It is probably not often enough to hurt anything, so
41           this option probably is not very useful, unless you have a flaky
42           serial connection or a highly loaded machine.
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44       nowarn_noimp
45           Does not print warnings when the UPS reports that a variable is not
46           implemented or not pollable. Without the option you will get a
47           message sent to your system logs each time NUT polls the UPS. If
48           you specify nowarn_noimp, this message will only be logged once.
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50       fake_lowbatt
51           This forces the low battery flag true. Without it, if you want to
52           test your UPS, you will have to unplug it and wait until the
53           battery drops to a low/critical voltage level before NUT will
54           respond and power down your system. With the flag, NUT should power
55           down the system soon after you pull the plug. When you are done
56           testing, you should remove this flag.
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58           For basic shutdown configuration testing, the command upsmon -c fsd
59           is preferred.
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61       powerup
62           Zinto D from ONLINE-USV cannot be identified when switched to
63           standby. Set this flag to allow the driver to power-up your Zinto
64           UPS. This will also power-up your equipment connected to the UPS!
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BUGS

67       On the 420E, ups.serial and ups.temperature are unsupported features.
68       This is not a bug in NUT or the NUT driver, just the way things are
69       with this UPS.
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AUTHOR

72       Russell Kroll, Scott Heavner, Matthias Goebl
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SEE ALSO

75   The core driver:
76       nutupsdrv(8)
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78   Internet resources:
79       The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.networkupstools.org/
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