RN516 and control of attached APC UPS.

StephenB wrote:
What settings on the UPS did you want to change?

With my current old UPS which I am keeping, there are meters, graphs and historical data, logging what happened when etc.
Voltage levels, frequency temperature, plus more are all easily viewable for the input and the output side.
Sensitivity levels are adjustable and testing can be requested to see how the system performs.
From memory I get about 12 to 13 minutes when the battery is new and 3 minutes when the battery is old (about 3 years).
The battery has been replaced at least twice, as once it did not last the 3 (expected) years.
If you are going to rely on a UPS you have to have confidence that it will do it's job when you need it. otherwise why bother.
I setup over 20 events that can happen (mostly left to the default value, I admit) and configured 7 options for each of them.
Event examples are 'load warning', 'load severity', 'Battery needs replace' etc.
Options examples are 'shutdown', 'email', 'alarm', 'command' etc.

Apart from the confidence building having this data gives, I suppose most of it is not absolutely necessary.
I would like to be able to test how long the battery would go for (and not rely on the information displayed, which I am led to believe is not necessarily correct).

Okay ... I'm tired... I will forgo all of the things I was expecting (which are on my current very old UPS), and do my own tests by pulling out the plug to see what happens.
Yes .... different mains to NAS, cut supply to UPS and see if it shuts it down, and time it.
I'll manage BUT in IT one normally expects to get more facilities rather than less, especially as it would seem that the facilities are probably there but only for a PC connection.
.... nope do NOT want the UPS connected to a PC. It is in the garage with the NAS, a router and printer and an obsolete Pentium 3 taking up valuable space.
BJ