Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Monitoring the UPS
- Thread starter rjalex
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Slartibart
macrumors 68040
I do not know about an API, but you can enable the services you want to use on the ups and then use these from python to probably get the information. E.g. SSH (via spur) or telnet (via telnetlib or xtelnetto) is one option - or you can e.g. compile/use apscupsd.
Something like:
I think that you can easily list the commands available on your ups after connecting to it via SSH from e.g. the terminal, otherwise, as usual, the manual might offer specific information here (?) 🤓😎
Something like:
import spur
shell = spur.SshShell(hostname="ups.host.name", username="ups.user", password="password")
result = shell.run(["echo", "-n", "hello"]) #execute the desired command here
print result.output # prints hello #then get the resultI think that you can easily list the commands available on your ups after connecting to it via SSH from e.g. the terminal, otherwise, as usual, the manual might offer specific information here (?) 🤓😎
Slartibart
macrumors 68040
Probably not. 🤓 Sorry, I did not look up your specific model before, at my work place we use other APC models - but you should be able to use apscupsd. Might have to use brew to install.
