Fred wrote: Good afternoon ... Would anyone have a piece of software that would run on OpenVMS Alpha that could monitor an APC Smart-UPS via a serial port? I moved some equipment around and now have one UPS that ended up not being monitored, and I'd like to have the Alpha monitor it (and run shutdown.com on low battery). I did a little googling around but couldn't find anything. I've seen Powerchute for VAX but it had a rather obscene price tag attached to it. Cheers, MISER::FRED :) . The only UPS monitoring software for OpenVMS Alpha I know of is for Exide (aka Powerware) UPS's. Don't know if it would work with other UPS's as well. Regards, Kari