Nut upsuser - Nov 2006 - Tripp light driver?

Hey,
 
I am wondering if anyone gotten nut to work with a Tripp Light Smart Pro
2U Rack/Towers (SMART2200RMXL2U). If so which driver did you use, or
what driver do you think I should try?
 
Also when trying use a nut driver, do you have to be a nut user?
 
Thanks,
 
Ricky 

 



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On 11/20/06, Ricky Armstead <rarmstead@bluecanopy.com>
wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone gotten nut to work with a Tripp Light Smart Pro 2U
> Rack/Towers (SMART2200RMXL2U). If so which driver did you use, or what
> driver do you think I should try?
These should work with the tripplite_usb driver and the USB cable.
This driver is marked "experimental" because the protocol was reverse
engineered, but they seem to be able to shut the system down at the
right time. I don't know what the status is with the serial tripplite
driver.
> Also when trying use a nut driver, do you have to be a nut user?
That's the way packages are set up, to minimize the lines of code that
have to be run as root. While testing, you can add "-u root" to the
driver command line, but the best solution is to set up hotplug or
udev to change ownership so that the driver can access the port
running as the "nut" user.

-- 
- Charles Lepple

>> I am wondering if anyone gotten nut to work with a Tripp Light Smart
Pro
 >> 2U Rack/Towers (SMART2200RMXL2U). If so which driver did you use, or
 >> what driver do you think I should try?

 Hi Ricky. With help from Charles Lepple, I was able to get nut to work
 with my SMART2200RMXL2U. I haven't put it into production yet, but it
 appears to work and should do what I need it to (just shut things down
 if the power is out and the ups battery is running low).

 You need to use the development version -- that's got the stuff Charles
 added to get my SMART2200RMXL2U to work. I'll include some of my notes
 below, but I haven't worked on this in weeks, so they're not complete
 and may even be wrong! :)  

jeff

- i'm running debian sarge with a 2.6.8-3-686 kernel
- ups is connected to usb port of server
$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/nut/trunk
...
Checked out revision 539.
$  cd trunk/
$  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/nut-2.1-dev-538 --with-user=nut
(you don't have to use stow -- i use it for stuff in /usr/local)
$  make
$  make usb
$  make snmp
$  sudo make install
$  sudo make install-conf
$  sudo make install-usb
$  sudo make install-snmp
$  cd /usr/local/stow
$  sudo stow nut-2.1-dev-538/
(again, you don't have to use stow -- it just makes links to /usr/local/bin,
lib, etc)
- made /var/state/ups dir to be 700 and nut:nut
- set up ups.conf:
[tripplite]
  driver = tripplite_usb
  port = /dev/ups
  productid = 0001
  desc = "black ups on lower shelf"
- set up upsd.conf:
ACL all 0.0.0.0/0
ACL localhost 127.0.0.1/32
ACCEPT localhost
REJECT all
- make sure permissions are correct on device files:
(this is one part i'm not sure about!)
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 11 Oct 16 15:10 /dev/ups -> usb/hiddev0
crw-rw----  1 nut nut 180, 96 Oct 16 15:10 /dev/usb/hiddev0
-rw-rw-r--  1 root nut 52 Oct 16 15:10 /proc/bus/usb/002/002

i think i did this with the following in /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules:
BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="09ae",
SYSFS{manufacturer}=="TRIPP LITE", SYSFS{product}=="TRIPP LITE
SMART2200RMXL2U  ", SYMLINK+="ups", MODE="0660",
OWNER="nut", GROUP="nut"

- now start it up:
$ sudo upsdrvctl -DDDD start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.1.0
Starting UPS: tripplite
exec: /usr/local/stow/nut-2.1-dev-538/bin/tripplite_usb -a tripplite
Network UPS Tools - Tripp Lite OMNIVS and SMARTPRO driver 0.7 (2.1.0)
Warning: This is an experimental driver.
Some features may not function correctly.
Detected a UPS: TRIPP LITE/TRIPP LITE SMART2200RMXL2U
Using SMARTPRO protocol (3003)
Attached to Tripp Lite SMART2200RMXL2U
$  sudo upsd
$  upsc tripplite@localhost
battery.test.status: Battery OK
battery.voltage: 54.40
battery.voltage.nominal: 48
driver.name: tripplite_usb
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