Nut upsuser - Jan 2007 - initial configuration assistance

Hi,
I've browsed the archives back for a few months and nothing has jumped 
out at me as being helpful, but since there doesn't seem to be a search 
facility it's certainly possible I've missed what I'm looking for. 
Anyway, I wonder if someone can help me.

I've very recently installed nut 2.0.4-r1 on a gentoo box and am in the 
initial stages of configuration and testing. Our APC Smart-UPS 3000 is 
connected with a 940-0024C serial cable, which seems to be a good one to 
use - I firstly removed the 940-1524C cable which happened to be 
dangling from the UPS.

I've configured upsd.conf with
[rack1ups]
         driver = apcsmart
         cable = 940-0024C
         port = auto
         desc = "Rack 1 UPS"
and left most other files as default, except for following some parts of 
doco on initial setup.

The problem: When I /etc/init.d/upsd start, I get this:
Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.4
Can't connect to UPS [rack1ups] (apcsmart-auto): No such file or directory
Synchronizing........ giving up

"auto" is replaced with "ttyS0" when I change 'port'
to '/dev/ttyS0'

TIA,
Greg.

> I've configured upsd.conf with
> [rack1ups]
>          driver = apcsmart
>          cable = 940-0024C
>          port = auto
This won't work. You need to specify a serial port for this driver (see
'man 5 ups.conf' and 'man 8 apcsmart'). Only the
'newhidups' driver
accepts 'auto' (anything actually), but that is an USB driver.
>          desc = "Rack 1 UPS"
> and left most other files as default, except for following some parts of
> doco on initial setup.
>
> The problem: When I /etc/init.d/upsd start, I get this:
> Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.4
> Can't connect to UPS [rack1ups] (apcsmart-auto): No such file or
directory
> Synchronizing........ giving up
>
> "auto" is replaced with "ttyS0" when I change
'port' to '/dev/ttyS0'
I would expect some lines showing that the driver is started, so I doubt
that the driver is running. Are you sure that /etc/init.d/upsd is an init
script and not a link to the upsd binary? What does the output of 'ps
aux|grep ups' show when you've started this?

Best regards, Arjen
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On 1/30/07, Gregory Orange <gregory.orange@metoceanengineers.com>
wrote:
> I've browsed the archives back for a few months and nothing has jumped
> out at me as being helpful, but since there doesn't seem to be a search
> facility it's certainly possible I've missed what I'm looking
for.
For future searches, you can use Google with
'site:lists.alioth.debian.org nut-upsdev OR nut-upsuser' and then your
search string. Not pretty, but it works.
> "auto" is replaced with "ttyS0" when I change
'port' to '/dev/ttyS0'
In addition to Arjen's suggestions, have you checked that Gentoo is
actually calling the serial port /dev/ttyS0? It might be /dev/tts/0,
depending on how they populate the /dev directory. I don't know if we
have too many Gentoo users among the developers, so please let us know
so that we can update the documentation.

-- 
- Charles Lepple

Hi Gregory,
tis 2007-01-30 klockan 14:43 +0900 skrev Gregory Orange:
> Hi,
> I've browsed the archives back for a few months and nothing has jumped 
> out at me as being helpful, but since there doesn't seem to be a search
> facility it's certainly possible I've missed what I'm looking
for.
> Anyway, I wonder if someone can help me.
> 
> I've very recently installed nut 2.0.4-r1 on a gentoo box and am in the
> initial stages of configuration and testing. Our APC Smart-UPS 3000 is 
> connected with a 940-0024C serial cable, which seems to be a good one to 
> use - I firstly removed the 940-1524C cable which happened to be 
> dangling from the UPS.
> 
> I've configured upsd.conf with
> [rack1ups]
>          driver = apcsmart
>          cable = 940-0024C
>          port = auto
>          desc = "Rack 1 UPS"
> and left most other files as default, except for following some parts of 
> doco on initial setup.
> 
The port should be set to /dev/ttyS0 if you use the first com port.
Then depending on the udev version the tty is owned by the tty group
or the uucp group. Check by ls -al /dev/ttyS0.

Add the nut user to the right group in /etc/group. This is more easy
then trying to fix the udev rule.

> The problem: When I /etc/init.d/upsd start, I get this:
> Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.4
> Can't connect to UPS [rack1ups] (apcsmart-auto): No such file or
directory
> Synchronizing........ giving up
> 
Try to start the driver first.
/etc/init.d/upsdrv start

Check that it is running and that it don't fail.

Then start the deamon if it is ok.
/etc/init.d/upsd start


I'm running Gentoo ~X86 and use a homemade ebuild for nut-2.0.5 with
some patches that i entered into the development trunk.

Regards
Kjell

Great, I have now linked to the search feature from Alioth:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser

-- Peter

Arnaud Quette wrote:
> 
> 2007/1/30, Peter Selinger <selinger@mathstat.dal.ca>:
> > ...
> > Cool! In fact, with this information, you can easily make a customized
> > NUT lists search engine with the following HTML snippet:
> >
> >  <form action="http://www.google.com/search"
method="get">
> >  <input maxlength="2048" name="as_q"
size="25" type="text">
> >  <input name="as_oq" type="hidden"
value="nut-upsuser nut-upsdev">
> >  <input name="domains"
value="lists.alioth.debian.org" type="hidden">
> >  <input name="sitesearch"
value="lists.alioth.debian.org" type="hidden">
> >  <input name="btnG" value="Search NUT lists"
type="submit">
> >  </form>
> >
> > Arnaud, could you put this on the NUT homepage somewhere? E.g. at
> > http://www.networkupstools.org/lists/
> 
> done.
> prefer to dest or cc me at least for more reactivity ;-)
> 
> thanks for this much useful and long awaited feature.
> Arnaud
> -- 
> Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt
> Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
> Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/
> OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
>

2007/1/31, Peter Selinger
<selinger@mathstat.dal.ca>:
> Great, I have now linked to the search feature from Alioth:
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
great, thanks Peter

Arnaud
-- 
Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/
OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/