solis - Man Page

Driver for Brazilian Microsol SOLIS UPS equipment

Synopsis

solis -h

solis -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]

Note

This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the solis driver​. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8)​.

Supported Hardware

This driver has been tested with:

All Solis models are sinusoidal on-line​.

In 2009, Schneider Electric acquired Microsol Technologies, and by 2012, the entire Microsol line of equipment was being sold under the APC brand​. Newer devices may be better supported by microsol-apc(8) driver instead​.

Extra Arguments

This driver support the following extra optional settings in the ups.conf(5)​.

battext=n

Default = 0, no extra battery, where n = Ampere*hour​.

prgshut=n

Default = 0, no programmable shutdown; 1 to enable one​.

Commands

shutdown​.return

Shut down in ​.3 minutes and restart in ​.3 minutes after that​.

shutdown​.stayoff

Shut down in ​.3 minutes and do not return​.

Issues

The APC version of the Microsol protocol is slightly incompatible with the solis driver​. As of version 0​.62 of the solis driver, the driver will connect to the UPS, but some values are read incorrectly​.

Author

Silvino B​. Magalhães <sbm2yk@gmail​.com>

See Also

The core driver

nutupsdrv(8)

Driver for newer devices under same brand

microsol-apc(8)

Internet resources

The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: https://www​.networkupstools​.org/historic/v2​.8​.5/

Info

10/07/2026 Network UPS Tools 2.8.5 NUT Manual