installing ups monitor

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 11 January 2021 17:29:06 Bob wrote:

> ** Reply to message from Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> on Mon,
> 11 Jan 2021 15:39:39 -0500
>
> > 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?
>
> I am not a member of the nut group (it is empty on my system) and
> everything is working for me except the UPS does not turn off, still
> trying to figure this out.  Because of the way Ubuntu handles the USB
> to serial interface I did have to put the nut user in the dialout
> group.
>
> I did put my userid and password in two of the .conf files.
>
> Look at chapter 6 of the "Network UPS Tools User Manual", url is in my
> reply above.  That is what I had to do to get all the .conf entries
> correct.
>
I've done another 2 hours of the 10,000 monkey's scene, but still 
syslogging this on a killall upsmon;/sbin/upsmon start:
Jan 11 17:52:18 coyote upsmon[8119]: Init SSL without certificate 
database
Jan 11 17:52:18 coyote upsmon[8119]: Login on UPS [myups at localhost] 
failed - got [ERR ACCESS-DENIED]

upsc works, FWIW, for both root and gene (first user)

I've been told, on this list, that the SSL error is a never mind.

Next?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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