Novell UPS.NLM does not support UPS monitoring via the serial port.
Your options are summarized in the following "Table of Contents."

1 - SS keycard with UPS monitoring
2 - Disk coprocessor board (37 pin version) DCB
3 - Novell UPS monitoring board
4 - PS/2 compatible mouse port
5 - Third Party Software for Serial Port Monitoring 


1 - SS keycard with UPS monitoring
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Jumper 1 (JMP1): 
	set to the S2 position, indicating that closed contacts
	will signify a Low Battery condition.

Jumper 5 (JMP5):
	set to the S10 position, indication that closed contacts
	will signify an Inverter On condition.

All other jumpers should remain in their default positions. For more 
information, refer to the "Novell SFT/Advanced Netware 286 Manual,"
page 2-22, or the appropriate Netware 386 manual.


2 - Disk coprocessor board (37 pin version) DCB
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Select jumper position S-18 indicating that closed 
contacts will signify a Low Battery condition.

Select jumper position S-19 indicating that closed
contacts will signify an Inverter On condition.

For more information, refer to the "Novell SFT/Advanced Netware 
286 Manual," page 2-32, "Checking the I/O Address of a Disk
Coprocessor Board," or the appropriate Netware 386 manual.


3 - Novell UPS monitoring board
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Jumper 1 (JMP1): 
	set to the S2 position, indicating that closed contacts
	will signify a Low Battery condition.

Jumper 2 (JMP2):
	set to the S3 position, indicating that closed contacts
	will signify an Inverter On condition.

For more information, refer to the "Novell SFT/Advanced Netware 
286 Manual," page 2-37, "Setting the UPS I/O address," or the 
appropriate Netware 386 manual.


4 - PS/2 compatible mouse port
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mouseport pinouts:

	Pin #      Description
	------     ---------------------
	   1 ----- On-AC Comercial Power
	   2 ----- Not Used
   	   3 ----- Ground
   	   4 ----- Not used
   	   5 ----- Low-Battery-Warning signal 
   	   6 ----- Not Used
 
Pins 1 & 3 of the mouse port connect to normally closed contacts
on the UPS. A relay opening will signify an Inverter On conditon.

Pins 5 & 3 of the mouse port connect to normally open contacts
on the UPS. A relay closing will signify a Low Battery condition.

looking at the mouse port:

      -------- 
     / 6 ## 5 \                     
    | 4      3 |
     \ 2    1 /
      --------         
(the ## is the Notch in the connector)



5 - Third Party Software for Serial Port Monitoring 
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If you *must* use the serial port, then you'll need a third party 
UPS monitor software package. Deltec, Topaz, Toshiba, Exide, IPM, 
Sola, and many other UPS vendors use PowerMon Software.
Best can use PowerMon, but you'll get advanced functions 
by using Best's "CheckUPS/II." 

	PowerMon Software
	SEC - Systems Enhancement Corp.
	Chesterfield, MO
	314-532-2855

PowerMon is a very simple implementation of relay monitoring. The relays
change status of the COM port, and PowerMon interprets these signals as
triggers for messages and shutdown scripts. 

If you want interactive UPS monitoring, diagnostics, charts and graphs, and
so on, move up to CheckUPS/II NLM.  CheckUPS/II goes beyong simple relays,
and uses a fully asyncronous interface with the UPS to read the actual
voltage, current, runtime, etc. CheckUPS/II for Novell is a complete 
client/server power management package, and unique in the industry.
Download BEST04.TXT and BEST04.PCX from NOVLIB for more information.
 
Corporate Computing says that "Best's CheckUPS is a superior package
on all grounds." (Nov. 1992, pg. 129) 

 
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