Nut upsuser - Feb 2014 - Eaton Powerware 5110 - some stats not reported

On Feb 12, 2014, at 7:50 PM, Tim Dawson wrote:
> Run the driver with -DDDDD and see what variables it picks up.  I have
noted that with the Prestige 9 in bcmxcp, some variables are not consistent
within models, and had to do some gentle remapping to get things to work
correctly.
Tim, is this the issue you mentioned on 2014-02-02 with blocks 0x9 and 0x13?
I'll reply to that email.
> On 02/12/2014 06:46 PM, Greg Vickers wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've hooked up an Eaton Powerware 5110 to Ubuntu 13.10 server, and
>> configured nut appropriately.  The cgi scripts are working fine, but on
>> upsstats.cgi, the Batter, UPS Temp and Battery Runtime fields are all
>> blank - and there are no entries for these values in the 'All
data' tree.
Greg,

From http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/nut-server it looks like you have 2.6.4.
There was a big rewrite of the bcmxcp driver core which became part of 2.7.1.

It might be possible to drop in the bcmxcp driver binary from Ubuntu trusty - I
wouldn't force-install the whole package, just in case they changed things
regarding init scripts and other libraries, but the drivers should be pretty
self-contained. Or you could build just that driver from source, making sure to
use the same paths as Ubuntu uses to build their binaries. Let me know if
you're interested in trying one of those routes (admittedly, it makes for a
bit of a Frankenstein system) and I can explain in more detail.

-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail

On 13/02/14 12:16, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2014, at 7:50 PM, Tim Dawson wrote:
>
>> Run the driver with -DDDDD and see what variables it picks up.  I have
noted that with the Prestige 9 in bcmxcp, some variables are not consistent
within models, and had to do some gentle remapping to get things to work
correctly.
I ran the new driver (see below) and with -DDDD it throws out tons of 
never ending information, what am I looking for? :)
> Tim, is this the issue you mentioned on 2014-02-02 with blocks 0x9 and
0x13? I'll reply to that email.
>
>> On 02/12/2014 06:46 PM, Greg Vickers wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've hooked up an Eaton Powerware 5110 to Ubuntu 13.10 server,
and
>>> configured nut appropriately.  The cgi scripts are working fine,
but on
>>> upsstats.cgi, the Batter, UPS Temp and Battery Runtime fields are
all
>>> blank - and there are no entries for these values in the 'All
data' tree.
> Greg,
>
>  From http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/nut-server it looks like you have
2.6.4. There was a big rewrite of the bcmxcp driver core which became part of
2.7.1.
>
> It might be possible to drop in the bcmxcp driver binary from Ubuntu trusty
- I wouldn't force-install the whole package, just in case they changed
things regarding init scripts and other libraries, but the drivers should be
pretty self-contained. Or you could build just that driver from source, making
sure to use the same paths as Ubuntu uses to build their binaries. Let me know
if you're interested in trying one of those routes (admittedly, it makes for
a bit of a Frankenstein system) and I can explain in more detail.
Charles, thanks very much for the information :)  I've parachuted in the 
bcmxcp_usb binary from Ubuntu Trusty from nut-server 
(http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nut/nut-server_2.7.1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb)
by using dpkg-deb to pull it out of the .deb file:

$ ls -l /lib/nut/bcmxcp*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 75880 May 20  2013 /lib/nut/bcmxcp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80544 Feb 15 09:03 /lib/nut/bcmxcp_usb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71816 Feb 15 09:03 /lib/nut/bcmxcp_usb.2.6.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80544 Feb 15 09:02 /lib/nut/bcmxcp_usb.2.7.1

And stopped both nut-client and nut-server, then started them both up.  
There is no change to what is displayed in the cgi, the same fields are 
still missing :(

On 13/02/14 15:55, Alf H?gemark wrote:
> Hi
>
> On
> http://nutwiki.kanonbra.com/wiki/Category:Eaton_Powerware_5110
>
> you can see what is reported. The unreleased part refers to v2.7.1, which
is now released.
OK, from that table, should the nut cgi be showing the Battery, UPS Temp 
and Battery Runtime values?  Sorry, I don't know how these values are 
translated into what is shown in the cgi displays.

I've got nut running, and can use upsc to get the values directly:

$ ps aux | grep nut
nut      18306  1.3  0.0   2640   636 ?        Ss   15:14   0:00 
/lib/nut/bcmxcp_usb -a Powerware5110
nut      18308  0.0  0.0   2620   708 ?        Ss   15:14   0:00 /sbin/upsd
nut      18326  0.0  0.0   2592   764 ?        S    15:14   0:00 
/sbin/upsmon

$ sudo upsc Powerware5110
battery.charge.low: 11
battery.voltage:  13.5
battery.voltage.low: 10
device.mfr: Eaton
device.model: POWERWARE UPS    700i
device.part: 103004267-5591
device.serial:
device.type: ups
driver.name: bcmxcp_usb
driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
driver.parameter.port: auto
driver.version: 2.7.1
driver.version.internal: 0.28
input.frequency:  49.9
input.frequency.high: 55
input.frequency.low: 45
input.frequency.nominal: 50
input.quality: 2
input.transfer.boost.high: 216
input.transfer.high: 280
input.transfer.low: 186
input.transfer.trim.low: 260
input.voltage: 240
input.voltage.nominal: 240
output.current:   0.4
output.current.nominal:   1.8
output.frequency:  49.9
output.frequency.nominal: 50
output.phases: 1
output.voltage: 240
output.voltage.nominal: 240
ups.beeper.status: enabled
ups.description: Line-Interactive UPS, Single Phase
ups.firmware: Cont:00.50 Inve:01.50
ups.load: 24
ups.mfr: Eaton
ups.model: POWERWARE UPS    700i
ups.power.nominal: 700
ups.serial:
ups.status: OL
ups.test.result: Done and passed

Happy to do more checks, I see the firmware on my 5110 700VA has the 
same values as the 5110 500VA on the wiki, but there are a few fields 
different, I guess there is a difference between the wiki page and the 
driver in Ubuntu Trusty.

Thanks,
Greg

The driver will poll the UPS for what variables it supports when it starts, and
then go into a polling loop.  Look for a section defining the meter map, and you
should see the result, as well as the raw data.  You can get the comm spec for 
XCP from the nut site if you want to delve deeper. I'd give more specifics,
but am out of town and only working from memory at the moment . . .

- Tim

On February 14, 2014 11:22:22 PM CST, Greg Vickers <daehenoc at
iinet.net.au> wrote:
>On 13/02/14 12:16, Charles Lepple wrote:
>> On Feb 12, 2014, at 7:50 PM, Tim Dawson wrote:
>>
>>> Run the driver with -DDDDD and see what variables it picks up.  I
>have noted that with the Prestige 9 in bcmxcp, some variables are not
>consistent within models, and had to do some gentle remapping to get
>things to work correctly.
>
>I ran the new driver (see below) and with -DDDD it throws out tons of 
>never ending information, what am I looking for? :)
>
>> Tim, is this the issue you mentioned on 2014-02-02 with blocks 0x9
>and 0x13? I'll reply to that email.
>>
>>> On 02/12/2014 06:46 PM, Greg Vickers wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've hooked up an Eaton Powerware 5110 to Ubuntu 13.10
server, and
>>>> configured nut appropriately.  The cgi scripts are working
fine,
>but on
>>>> upsstats.cgi, the Batter, UPS Temp and Battery Runtime fields
are
>all
>>>> blank - and there are no entries for these values in the
'All data'
>tree.
>> Greg,
>>
>>  From http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/nut-server it looks like you
>have 2.6.4. There was a big rewrite of the bcmxcp driver core which
>became part of 2.7.1.
>>
>> It might be possible to drop in the bcmxcp driver binary from Ubuntu
>trusty - I wouldn't force-install the whole package, just in case they
>changed things regarding init scripts and other libraries, but the
>drivers should be pretty self-contained. Or you could build just that
>driver from source, making sure to use the same paths as Ubuntu uses to
>build their binaries. Let me know if you're interested in trying one of
>those routes (admittedly, it makes for a bit of a Frankenstein system)
>and I can explain in more detail.
>
>Charles, thanks very much for the information :)  I've parachuted in
>the 
>bcmxcp_usb binary from Ubuntu Trusty from nut-server 
>(http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nut/nut-server_2.7.1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb)
>
>by using dpkg-deb to pull it out of the .deb file:
>
>$ ls -l /lib/nut/bcmxcp*
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 75880 May 20  2013 /lib/nut/bcmxcp
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80544 Feb 15 09:03 /lib/nut/bcmxcp_usb
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71816 Feb 15 09:03 /lib/nut/bcmxcp_usb.2.6.4
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80544 Feb 15 09:02 /lib/nut/bcmxcp_usb.2.7.1
>
>And stopped both nut-client and nut-server, then started them both up. 
>
>There is no change to what is displayed in the cgi, the same fields are
>
>still missing :(
>
>On 13/02/14 15:55, Alf H?gemark wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On
>> http://nutwiki.kanonbra.com/wiki/Category:Eaton_Powerware_5110
>>
>> you can see what is reported. The unreleased part refers to v2.7.1,
>which is now released.
>
>OK, from that table, should the nut cgi be showing the Battery, UPS
>Temp 
>and Battery Runtime values?  Sorry, I don't know how these values are 
>translated into what is shown in the cgi displays.
>
>I've got nut running, and can use upsc to get the values directly:
>
>$ ps aux | grep nut
>nut      18306  1.3  0.0   2640   636 ?        Ss   15:14   0:00 
>/lib/nut/bcmxcp_usb -a Powerware5110
>nut      18308  0.0  0.0   2620   708 ?        Ss   15:14   0:00
>/sbin/upsd
>nut      18326  0.0  0.0   2592   764 ?        S    15:14   0:00 
>/sbin/upsmon
>
>$ sudo upsc Powerware5110
>battery.charge.low: 11
>battery.voltage:  13.5
>battery.voltage.low: 10
>device.mfr: Eaton
>device.model: POWERWARE UPS    700i
>device.part: 103004267-5591
>device.serial:
>device.type: ups
>driver.name: bcmxcp_usb
>driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
>driver.parameter.port: auto
>driver.version: 2.7.1
>driver.version.internal: 0.28
>input.frequency:  49.9
>input.frequency.high: 55
>input.frequency.low: 45
>input.frequency.nominal: 50
>input.quality: 2
>input.transfer.boost.high: 216
>input.transfer.high: 280
>input.transfer.low: 186
>input.transfer.trim.low: 260
>input.voltage: 240
>input.voltage.nominal: 240
>output.current:   0.4
>output.current.nominal:   1.8
>output.frequency:  49.9
>output.frequency.nominal: 50
>output.phases: 1
>output.voltage: 240
>output.voltage.nominal: 240
>ups.beeper.status: enabled
>ups.description: Line-Interactive UPS, Single Phase
>ups.firmware: Cont:00.50 Inve:01.50
>ups.load: 24
>ups.mfr: Eaton
>ups.model: POWERWARE UPS    700i
>ups.power.nominal: 700
>ups.serial:
>ups.status: OL
>ups.test.result: Done and passed
>
>Happy to do more checks, I see the firmware on my 5110 700VA has the 
>same values as the 5110 500VA on the wiki, but there are a few fields 
>different, I guess there is a difference between the wiki page and the 
>driver in Ubuntu Trusty.
>
>Thanks,
>Greg
>
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