installing ups monitor

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 11 January 2021 14:13:08 Bob wrote:

> ** Reply to message from Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> on Mon,
> 11 Jan 2021 10:16:51 +0100
>
> > On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:24:00 +0100, Bo Berglund 
<bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:19:14 +1100, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> 
wrote:
> > >>The above reminds me what I did and how I did it. Because I run a
> > >>Synology NAS, it is important me that it is shutdown in an orderly
> > >>fashion if the power fails. Synology NASes understand APC UPSes
> > >> out of the box, so I used it as a networked UPS monitor and told
> > >> NUT to check the NAS, rather than check the UPS directly. monuser
> > >> and XXXXXXX are the creds it uses to talk to the NAS via SNMP.
> > >>
> > >>If the power failed, the UPS would tell the NAS; the NAS would
> > >> tell anyone who asked, which was what my laptop did via NUT.
> > >>
> > >>So I'm not sure that my configuration is that useful to you.
> > >
> > >Really interesting because I have a Synology NAS as one device on
> > > my network too!
> > >
> > >I will study how it will be done and see if I can get it going via
> > > the NAS.
> >
> > Karl,
> > thanks again for your suggestion to use the Synology NAS as the UPS
> > monitor!
> >
> > It turns out that once I hooked up the RJ45/USB cable that came with
> > the APC ES700 to the USB connector on my Synology Diskstation 212j
> > NAS I was able to enable UPS monitoring and also the network UPS
> > server on Synology. The service itself was present out of the box!
> > :)
> >
> > So now the Synology NAS is checking the UPS state and it will shut
> > down when "battery is low".
> >
> > I also enabled the network UPS server and configured it with the IP
> > address of my Ubuntu 18 server, so I assume that now the "only"
> > thing I need to do is figuring out how the Ubuntu server can use the
> > UPS service on my NAS...
> >
> > I installed package nut yesterday using apt on my Ubuntu server.
> > It entered a non-working state.
> >
> > So now I "just" have to edit some config files, right?
>
> That is correct but I found that most how tos for NUT were lacking
> some of the details.  I found the NUT manual at
> https://networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/index.html.  I
> found I needed to go through the entire chapter 6 of that manual to
> get things set up correctly.  The end of chapter 6 describes how to
> set up multiple UPS configurations.
breaking into the thread:
I followed the above tut, but cannot get past this in the syslog:
Jan 11 15:33:59 coyote upsmon[1456]: Login on UPS [myups at localhost] 
failed - got [ERR ACCESS-DENIED]
And this in a root shell restarting upsmon:
root at coyote:nut$ killall upsmon
root at coyote:nut$ /sbin/upsmon start
Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.7.4
kill: No such process
/etc/nut/upsmon.conf line 75: invalid directive [gene]
/etc/nut/upsmon.conf line 76: invalid directive password = xxxxxxxxxxxx
/etc/nut/upsmon.conf line 77: invalid directive upsmon master
UPS: myups at localhost (master) (power value 1)
Using power down flag file /etc/killpower

And I, gene, am a member of group nut
Advice?

>
> > With regard to another post in this thread:
> > I have set up my UPS system such that all of these items (and a few
> > more) are on UPS power:
> > - Incoming fiber interface to the Internet
> > - Main ASUS RT-AC86U router
> > - My two Netgear network switches
> > - Synology NAS
> > - Ubuntu Server (the target of my concerns)
> > - IP phone interface box
> >
> > This seems to cover "everything" in case of a power outage so that
> > my internal network will continue operating with internal and
> > Internet connection (assuming the fiber provider's system is still
> > on power).
>
> --
> Robert Blair
>
>
> Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car
> keys to teenage boys.  -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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