On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > I recently bought a new UPS, and I'm attempting to use nut to monitor it. > Following setup instructions everything seemed to go well until it came to > testing the connection, which failed. <snip> Possibly something on one of these URLs will help you; http://www.networkupstools.org/ http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/UPS-HOWTO/#AEN187 You are trying to use nut and it is failing. Have you tried to use something else, to verify the connection is working OK?