Nut upsuser - May 2009 - Belkin F6C750-AVR Nut Driver for Linux

Hi Everyone,

I am new to UPSs and Linux.? I purchased a Belkin F6C750-AVR UPS for our
church.? We are?running CENTOS 5.2.

I tried the Linux Power Management Software that came with Belkin UPS with NO
success.

I installed the NUT software.

After some experimentation I received some success with the megatec_usb Nut
driver:

[root at server bin]# /sbin/megatec_usb -u root -a serverups -DDDD
Network UPS Tools 2.2.0- - Megatec protocol driver 1.5.4 [megatec_usb]
Carlos Rodrigues (c) 2003-2007
Serial-over-USB transport layer for Megatec protocol driver [megatec_usb]
debug level is '4'
Checking device (1267/0103) (001/004)
- VendorID: 1267
- ProductID: 0103
- Manufacturer: unknown
- Product: unknown
- Serial Number: unknown
- Bus: 001
Trying to match device
Device does not match - skipping
Checking device (0000/0000) (001/001)
- VendorID: 0000
- ProductID: 0000
- Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 uhci_hcd
- Product: UHCI Host Controller
- Serial Number: 0000:00:1f.2
- Bus: 001
Trying to match device
Device does not match - skipping
Checking device (0665/5161) (001/003)
- VendorID: 0665
- ProductID: 5161
- Manufacturer: Cypress Semiconductor
- Product: USB to Serial
- Serial Number: unknown
- Bus: 001
Trying to match device
Device matches
Starting UPS detection process...
Attempting to detect the UPS...
Sending "Q1" command...
"Q1" command successful.
Attempting to detect the UPS...
Sending "Q1" command...
"Q1" command successful.
Attempting to detect the UPS...
Sending "Q1" command...
"Q1" command successful.
Attempting to detect the UPS...
Sending "Q1" command...
"Q1" command successful.
Attempting to detect the UPS...
Sending "Q1" command...
"Q1" command successful.
0 out of 5 detection attempts failed (minimum failures: 2).
Asking for UPS information ("I" command)...
UPS doesn't return any information about itself.
Megatec protocol UPS detected.
Asking for UPS power ratings ("F" command)...
UPS power ratings: #120.0 005 12.00 60.0
Asking for UPS status ("Q1" command)...
UPS status: (121.1 121.1 121.1 002 60.1 13.5 N/.A 00001001
12.0V battery, interval [9.7V, 13.7V].
Done setting up the UPS.
Asking for UPS status ("Q1" command)...
UPS doesn't return any information about its status.
dstate_init: sock /var/run/nut/megatec_usb-serverups open on fd 5
Asking for UPS status ("Q1" command)...
UPS status: (121.1 121.1 121.1 002 60.2 13.5 N/.A 00001001
Charge: 95.0%
Signal 2: exiting

ups.conf:

[serverups]
??????? driver = megatec_usb
??????? port = auto
??????? desc = "UPS?Office"

upsd.users


# MONITOR myups at myhost 1 monuser pass master??? (or slave)
??????? [admin]
??????????????? password = xxxxx
??????????????? allowfrom = ALL
??????? [monuser]
??????????????? password =?xxxxx
??????????????? allowfrom = ALL
??????????????? upsmon master

upsd.conf

ACL all 0.0.0.0/0
ACL localhost 127.0.0.1/32
ACCEPT localhost
REJECT all

As you can see the F6C750-AVR appears to be megatec protocol.

Does anyone know what I need to do to control how I can control the Belkin
F6C750-AVR?UPS?

Have I missed some config?

If NUT is not the correct tool, does anyone know what else I should try?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

-John


      
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Hi John

I am using a very similar Belkin UPS with nut 2.2.0 and Centos 5.3.
I can't find my exact model number but I think mine is the 1200va 
version similar to yours. I also tried installing the supplied Linux 
drivers - but gave up. I also gave up on the serial connection.
But I have got it working with the usb connection - and it works pretty 
well. There is a generic USB driver which works fine with this UPS - 
with somewhat limited but adequate functionality for my purposes.

Here is the interesting bit of my ups.conf

[BelkinUSB]
    driver = usbhid-ups
    port = auto


And the interesting bits of upsmon.conf - most of which are defaults.

=========================
MONITOR BelkinUSB at localhost 1 monuser ********* master


MINSUPPLIES 1


SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -h +0"

POLLFREQ 5


POLLFREQALERT 5


HOSTSYNC 15

DEADTIME 15


POWERDOWNFLAG /etc/killpower

RBWARNTIME 43200


NOCOMMWARNTIME 300


FINALDELAY 5

================I hope this helps.

Richard.

Citeren xqa xqa <xq1xq1xq1 op yahoo.com>:

[...]
> As you can see the F6C750-AVR appears to be megatec protocol.
>
> Does anyone know what I need to do to control how I can control the  
> Belkin F6C750-AVR?UPS?
>
> Have I missed some config?
You probably didn't read the README and INSTALL files, where we  
document this. You've alread done the most difficult part of it (find  
the appropriate driver for your UPS), so at least you can use NUT to  
monitor/control your UPS. Most likely however, your distribution will  
already provide some way to install and run NUT, so you'd better check  
that out first.

Best regards, Arjen
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