Nut upsuser - Jun 2007 - Multiple USVs (how to identify each one)

Hi everybody,

we have three MGE UPS'. I've read all the documents I've found, but
I haven't got the information I need.
All three of them being attached to the same machine I need a way to
identify which is wich (all three use the same driver). They power
different systems (two of them running windows so that I can't easily
setup a network-enabled software on two of them, as I've only seen
a NUT client for MS Windows).

Do you have any hints? Any document pointer or answer is appreciated.

Thanx,
Baltasar


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On 6/7/07, FORMER 03 | Baltasar Cevc <baltasar.cevc at former03.de>
wrote:
> we have three MGE UPS'. I've read all the documents I've found,
but
> I haven't got the information I need.
> All three of them being attached to the same machine I need a way to
> identify which is wich (all three use the same driver). They power
> different systems (two of them running windows so that I can't easily
> setup a network-enabled software on two of them, as I've only seen
> a NUT client for MS Windows).
I'm a bit confused by your description, so here is how I understand
your setup: all three UPSes are attached to the same machine, so I am
assuming that you have all three USB cables coming to one machine
running nut. Then there are three distinct machines, each plugged into
one UPS, right?
If so, then just configure nut for all three UPSes, and then each UPS
from the wall at a time. The notifications than nut receives will let
you identify each UPS.

~David

FORMER 03 | Baltasar Cevc wrote:
> we have three MGE UPS'. I've read all the documents I've found,
but
> I haven't got the information I need.
> All three of them being attached to the same machine I need a way to
> identify which is wich (all three use the same driver). They power
> different systems (two of them running windows so that I can't easily
> setup a network-enabled software on two of them, as I've only seen
> a NUT client for MS Windows).
> 
> Do you have any hints? Any document pointer or answer is appreciated.
Assuming that these UPSes are connected through USB and you're using the
'newhidups' driver (or the 'usbhid-ups' driver, if you're
running the
development version), 'man 8 newhidups' is what you need to read
carefully:

       vendor=regex
       product=regex
       serial=regex
       vendorid=regex
       productid=regex

Probably the only difference between these units (if they are all the
models) is the serial number. Running the driver in debug mode (with -DD
on the commandline) will help to find the serial number. Connect one UPS
at a time, so that you're able to unambiguously determine which one has
which serial number.

Best regards, Arjen