![]() I also found a USB to serial dongle adapter (designed to add a serial port to the back of PC, not the other kind designed to connect directly into the peripheral DCE equipment), connected that to my serial cable, and Windows recognized it as a USB UPS device, and the older versions of PowerPanel also work with it, but the UPS still is not found with the most recent version of PowerPanel Personal Edition. It therefore could only support simplex (one-way) protocol, as it's missing RX! A null modem cable surely would not work at all! This is a simple work around to allow PowerPanel and Spiceworks to co-exist. As a result, Spiceworks is not able to query the 'win32battery' WMI value to get UPS data (access the UPS information via WMI API). Specifically, the CyberPower UPS cable that they sold to me for their devices has only 5 pins connected: pin 1 (DCD), pin 3 (TX), pin 4 (DTR), pin 7 (RTS), and pin 8 (CTS). When CyberPower System's PowerPanel software is installed it replaces Windows' original Power Option driver with PowerPanel’s driver. I don't know how I mixed that up! I'm going to try to get my earlier post edited by the admin or deleted, as I don't want to be spreading misinformation. Using USB connection, PowerPanel Personal Edition 2.2.0 works with this newer UPS (maybe it might work on serial port too if I had a regular serial cable?), and while there is a lot more information available about the UPS in the program, such as the ability to trigger self-test and see battery percentage, there still is no way in the software to configure the audible alarm!Ĭlick to expand.I re-tested today with better tools, and discovered the CyberPower UPS serial cable is indeed a straight extension cable like the OP originally said and has used successfully. I'd rather it beeped constantly like the older one, given that I prefer not to run software to know quickly that the power went out. I actually just got a slightly newer CP550, this one has both the serial and USB ports and it only beeps once every 10 seconds or so when power goes out. So I figured long ago, who needs on screen notification as well? Yes, once on battery it beeps constantly (until the battery runs out, power comes back on, or you switch it off) and there is no way to configure it to behave otherwise. are you sure it was a extension/straight-through and not a null modem? Maybe the device doesn't even use those crossed lines, it's pretty basic as far as the communication with PC is involved. 60 staff, the rest students on Chromebooks, and I want to filter those two groups differently.I currently have Untangle / Arista Edge Threat Management and due budget r.Interesting. Hi all, I'm looking for options for a web content filter for use with about 800 users.
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