We recently had to replace an old APC SmartUPS 3000 with a newer 3000VA (the 2U one). It has both serial and USB in the back (with an RJ-45 on the end of the serial cable). I can't get the apcsmart driver to connect. I figured it should work the exact same as the old UPS, with /dev/ttyS0 as the port (I'm using the same port on the server that the last one was plugged into). I even tried the USB driver (usbhid-ups) using the port=auto, but it complained about unsupported UPS. Any ideas about connecting this new UPS?
> We recently had to replace an old APC SmartUPS 3000 with a newer 3000VA > (the 2U one). It has both serial and USB in the back (with an RJ-45 on > the end of the serial cable). > > I can't get the apcsmart driver to connect. I figured it should work > the exact same as the old UPS, with /dev/ttyS0 as the port (I'm using > the same port on the server that the last one was plugged into). I even > tried the USB driver (usbhid-ups) using the port=auto, but it complained > about unsupported UPS.One thing to watch out for with APC and USB is that it was the case with their earlier units that once you had connected them up using USB the only way you could get them to go back to serial was to power them down completely. They may have fixed that, of course. Having said that, we never did get our APC USB-capable units to work reliably with our Linux boxes. They're all on serial or SNMP cards now. -- George D M Ross MSc PhD CEng MBCS CITP, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9AB Mail: gdmr at inf.ed.ac.uk Voice: 0131 650 5147 Fax: 0131 650 6899 PGP: 1024D/AD758CC5 B91E D430 1E0D 5883 EF6A 426C B676 5C2B AD75 8CC5 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 237 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20120203/9058dd74/attachment.pgp>
Zach, 2012/2/3 Zach La Celle <lacelle at roboticresearch.com>:> We recently had to replace an old APC SmartUPS 3000 with a newer 3000VA (the > 2U one). ?It has both serial and USB in the back (with an RJ-45 on the end > of the serial cable). > > I can't get the apcsmart driver to connect. ?I figured it should work the > exact same as the old UPS, with /dev/ttyS0 as the port (I'm using the same > port on the server that the last one was plugged into). ?I even tried the > USB driver (usbhid-ups) using the port=auto, but it complained about > unsupported UPS. > > Any ideas about connecting this new UPS?apart from the good advice from George (Ross), we need the following info to be able to help you (both need root privileges): - the nut version used, - the operating system, and version, you're running, - drivers debug output: $ /path/to/driver -DDDDD -a <devname> - and for the USB side: $ lsusb -v -d051d:<productID> AFAICT, the serial protocol has changed (and is not published nor reverse engineered), but USB should work (minus a possible missing supported productID). cheers, Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://powerquality.eaton.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/