A couple of years ago, Arnaud helped me get my Apollo Line Interactive UPS working, using the blazer_usb driver. Now I've run into another problem, having rebuilt my HP Proliant Microserver into an ESXi 5.5 managed hypervisor with various VMs. One of the VMs is a FreeNAS server which manages the storage for the other VMs so graceful shutdowns are important. I built a single VM to monitor the UPS (Ubuntu Server 14.04 i386) and installed NUT on the box from the apt packages. I set it up as per the previous box with the blazer_usb driver and all goes well, for a while. Initially, the UPS reports correctly via upsc, but after a while I get the "Data stale" error, and the box is no longer recognised. A stop and start of upsdrvctl gives the following: $ sudo upsdrvctl -D start Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.1 0.000000 Starting UPS: apollo-ups Network UPS Tools - Megatec/Q1 protocol USB driver 0.10 (2.7.1) No supported UPS detected 15.242656 Driver failed to start (exit status=1) But lsusb reports that the device is still there. And an accidental upsdrvctl shutdown successfully powered down the UPS. Also, physically unplugging the UPS cable and re-inserting it forces it to work again, but again after a few minutes I get the "Data stale" again and the UPS status can no longer be interrogated. Once again, any help greatly appreciated. Thanks Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20150102/b13a9a1c/attachment.html>
On Jan 2, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Mike Raath <raathm at gmail.com> wrote:> I built a single VM to monitor the UPS (Ubuntu Server 14.04 i386) and installed NUT on the box from the apt packages. I set it up as per the previous box with the blazer_usb driver and all goes well, for a while. Initially, the UPS reports correctly via upsc, but after a while I get the "Data stale" error, and the box is no longer recognised.This same UPS? http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=CA%2b%3d8wNMxFBYkT75aw2jePfA%2bLaKuNXuvDKvYG3t9B8D%2bChPwfQ%40mail.gmail.com It looks like Ubuntu 14.04 has NUT 2.7.1, so the nutdrv_qx driver is available. It is a replacement for the blazer_* drivers, and should be a superset of the blazer_usb functionality. I would recommend switching, as there shouldn't be many changes necessary: http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/nutdrv_qx.html#_notes_for_the_previous_user_of_blazer_drivers It also looks like the Ubuntu 14.04 package still is affected by a udev-related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nut/+bug/1099947/comments/4 If you rename the 52-nut-usbups.rules file to 62-nut-usbups.rules as indicated in that URL, and unplug and re-plug in the USB cable (or run "udevadm trigger -- subsystem-match=usb"), subsequent driver runs should find the USB device. -- Charles Lepple clepple at gmail -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20150102/6b4e3a15/attachment.html>
Hi Charles, and thanks for your suggestion.
I tried the nutdrv_qx and moved the rules file like you said, and
re-attached the USB. It picked up to begin with, but within 10 minutes it
lost the device again.
$ sudo upsdrvctl start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.1
Network UPS Tools - Generic Q* USB/Serial driver 0.01 (2.7.1)
USB communication driver 0.32
Using protocol: Megatec 0.01
No values for battery high/low voltages
Using 'guesstimation' (low: 10.400000, high: 13.000000)!
Battery runtime will not be calculated (runtimecal not set)
After reboot:
$ upsc apollo-ups at localhost
Init SSL without certificate database
battery.charge: 100
battery.voltage: 13.50
battery.voltage.high: 13.00
battery.voltage.low: 10.40
battery.voltage.nominal: 12.0
device.type: ups
driver.name: nutdrv_qx
driver.parameter.pollfreq: 30
driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
driver.parameter.port: auto
driver.version: 2.7.1
driver.version.data: Megatec 0.01
driver.version.internal: 0.01
input.current.nominal: 3.0
input.frequency: 50.0
(etc)
Then roughly 10 minutes later
Broadcast Message from nut at ubun
(somewhere) at 21:35 ...
Communications with UPS apollo-ups at localhost lost
$ upsc apollo-ups at localhost
Init SSL without certificate database
Error: Data stale
Not sure what other logs I can provide to try to troubleshoot this?
Thanks
Mike
On 2 January 2015 at 21:04, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Mike Raath <raathm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I built a single VM to monitor the UPS (Ubuntu Server 14.04 i386) and
> installed NUT on the box from the apt packages. I set it up as per the
> previous box with the blazer_usb driver and all goes well, for a while.
> Initially, the UPS reports correctly via upsc, but after a while I get the
> "Data stale" error, and the box is no longer recognised.
>
>
> This same UPS?
>
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=CA%2b%3d8wNMxFBYkT75aw2jePfA%2bLaKuNXuvDKvYG3t9B8D%2bChPwfQ%40mail.gmail.com
>
<http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=CA+=8wNMxFBYkT75aw2jePfA+LaKuNXuvDKvYG3t9B8D+ChPwfQ
at mail.gmail.com>
>
> It looks like Ubuntu 14.04 has NUT 2.7.1, so the nutdrv_qx driver is
> available. It is a replacement for the blazer_* drivers, and should be a
> superset of the blazer_usb functionality. I would recommend switching, as
> there shouldn't be many changes necessary:
>
http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/nutdrv_qx.html#_notes_for_the_previous_user_of_blazer_drivers
>
> It also looks like the Ubuntu 14.04 package still is affected by a
> udev-related bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nut/+bug/1099947/comments/4 If
> you rename the 52-nut-usbups.rules file to 62-nut-usbups.rules as
> indicated in that URL, and unplug and re-plug in the USB cable (or run
> "udevadm trigger -- subsystem-match=usb"), subsequent driver runs
should
> find the USB device.
>
> --
> Charles Lepple
> clepple at gmail
>
>
>
>
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