liebert-esp2(8)

liebert-esp28

Driver for liebert ups, using the esp-ii serial protocol

Usage

liebert-esp2 -h

liebert-esp2 -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]

Special cabling note

Be aware that an RS-232 cable with ONLY the RX, TX and ground pin must be used when interfacing with GXT2 series UPS units (and possibly others), since the handshaking lines are used for purposes other than RS-232 flow control.

Use of a standard RS-232 cable with full handshaking may result in undesired operation and/or shutdown. It is therefore advisable to confirm the proper cable/wiring with the diagram provided in the manual with your UPS.

Supported hardware

Tested to work on the following units:

• Liebert GXT2-6000RT208

This is an experimental driver. You have been warned.

This driver currently does not support modification of configuration parameters, such as the low battery warning time and automatic restart policy.

Extra arguments

This driver supports the following optional settings in ups.conf(5):

baudrate=num

Set the speed of the serial connection — 1200, 2400 (default), 4800, 9600 or 19200.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9–11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

Authors

• Richard Gregory <R.Gregory at liverpool.ac.uk>

• Arjen de Korte <adkorte-guest at alioth.debian.org>

• Nash Kaminski <nashkaminski at kaminski.io>

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