Oi. Maybe I should have bought a more expensive unit. the good news is that the UPS can talk to a PC. the bad news is that the PC is a windoze 2000 laptop. (go figure) But at least I know that it works. Hpowever, I'll probably rig something external to monitor the line voltage, and close a relay or something if the power croaks, and write/modify a deamon to halt or reboot the system if the power dies.

a Kludge, but whatever works, right??