Nut upsuser - Nov 2011 - Installing Powercom BNT-2000AP on CentOS 5.6

Hi Guys,

Am a Linux newbie and need some help setting up this UPS with NUT on Cent
OS 5.6. So basically I have the following packages installed with yum:

libusb-devel-0.1.12-5.1.x86_64
libusb-devel-0.1.12-5.1.i386
libusb-0.1.12-5.1.x86_64
libusb-0.1.12-5.1.i386
nut-2.2.2-1.el5.x86_64

When I run service ups start I get the following:

Starting UPS driver controller:                            [FAILED]
Starting upsd:                                             [  OK  ]
Starting UPS monitor (master):                             [  OK  ]

Broadcast message from nut (Sun Nov 13 20:47:31 2011):
Communications with UPS pcom at localhost lost

When I run /sbin/upsdrvctl start pcom I get the following:

Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.2
Network UPS Tools: 0.29 USB communication driver - core 0.33 (2.2.2)

No matching HID UPS found
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)

and when I run lsusb I can see the UPS that it is hooked up

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0d9f:0004 Powercom Co., Ltd


I am outputting the directory /etc/ups using ls -l
total 32
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root    18 Nov 13 19:46 nut.conf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root nut   3625 Nov 13 19:30 ups.conf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root nut   2009 Nov 13 19:46 upsd.conf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root nut   2250 Nov 13 19:01 upsd.users
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root nut  11900 Nov 11 17:43 upsmon.conf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root nut   3891 Mar 23  2011 upssched.conf

ups.conf:
user = root
[pcom]
        driver=usbhid-ups
        port=auto
        productid=0004

upsmon.conf

upsdrvctl start pcom -DDDDD
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.2
Network UPS Tools: 0.29 USB communication driver - core 0.33 (2.2.2)

No matching HID UPS found
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)

Am not sure how to tackle the problem... Maybe it is permissions - related.

Any help please?

Jon
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On Nov 13, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Borg wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Am a Linux newbie and need some help setting up this UPS with NUT on Cent
OS 5.6. So basically I have the following packages installed with yum:
> 
> libusb-devel-0.1.12-5.1.x86_64
> libusb-devel-0.1.12-5.1.i386
> libusb-0.1.12-5.1.x86_64
> libusb-0.1.12-5.1.i386
> nut-2.2.2-1.el5.x86_64
You may want to find a newer RPM (from rawhide?) - we're on 2.6.2 now.
> and when I run lsusb I can see the UPS that it is hooked up
> 
> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0d9f:0004 Powercom Co., Ltd 
Make sure the nut user can write to /dev/bus/usb/005/002 (or wherever
usbdevfs/usbfs is mounted). Group write permission should be sufficient.
> I am outputting the directory /etc/ups using ls -l
> total 32
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root    18 Nov 13 19:46 nut.conf
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root nut   3625 Nov 13 19:30 ups.conf
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root nut   2009 Nov 13 19:46 upsd.conf
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root nut   2250 Nov 13 19:01 upsd.users
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root nut  11900 Nov 11 17:43 upsmon.conf
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root nut   3891 Mar 23  2011 upssched.conf
Remember to remove read/write permission from at least upsd.users and
upsmon.conf, since they contain passwords.
> ups.conf:
> user = root
> [pcom]
>         driver=usbhid-ups
>         port=auto
>         productid=0004
Generally speaking, if you need to specify a productid in ups.conf, then the
udev rules don't know about your USB vendor/product ID combination, either.
Search for 0d9f in your NUT udev rules file, and copy one of those lines
(replacing the product ID with yours, 0004).