[Nut-upsuser] New User Questions - With Belkin USB

David White
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:03:39 -0000

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Hello and thanks in advance for any
help/tips. I am
      new to nut and am trying to get it running with a Belkin FC6550AVR
      which is a USB device. So I am using the blazer driver. I am on
      Ubuntu 14 on an ARM system. The UPS is directly connected to a
single system and so I have used standalone in the setup.

I have have basic configuration correct, I think.

And I am running:

?????? service nut-server start

on system startup so I can see the upsd running. I can?? issue:

?????? upsc belkinusb

      and see the expected response in showing variables. And when I
      unplug the Belkin from the wall I can see a change in ups.status.
      So I know there is some form of communication happening properly
between nut and the Belkin.

      However I am a bit stumped on monitoring. What I want is to
      execute a script when the UPS goes on battery. To do this, I think
      I have to have the nut-client running. Is this correct? If so I
seem to have some troulbe. When I issue:

?????? service nut-client start

I see:

      ?????? * Starting NUT - power device monitor and shutdown controller
nut-client[ OK ]

?????? Broadcast Message from nut@loca
?????????????? (somewhere) at 10:57 ...

?????? Communications with UPS belkinusb@localhost lost

?????? Broadcast Message from nut@loca
?????????????? (somewhere) at 10:57 ...

?????? UPS belkinusb@localhost is unavailable

      Any idea what this means? And if I can managed to do what I want
      with only the server running, please let me know what I need to do
      to get my script to run when the UPS goes on battery. When I pull
the plug from the wall, my script does not get executed.

Cheers!