Nut upsuser - Nov 2021 - nut proxy setup?

I've searched for quite some time and read the FAQ, but to no avail.

I have a UPS connected to a NAS. Unfortunately I have to specify every single
client IP (ups slave), because the stupid NAS system (QNAP) does not allow me
to set a /16 or /24. Changing the config files manually does not work either,
because the service won't come up anymore. (One has to love QNAP at this
point.)

Thus I wanted to setup a nut server + client on a separate machine X.

On X the nut client should read the UPS info via network. It works when
accessing it on X with: upsc qnapups at qnap-ip
Using upsmon also works.

Now I want to provide this info to other clients via the nut server on X.

But I wasn't able to set it up so that X is basically a proxy for the UPS on
the NAS.

Is this even possible? I really could need some help here. And no,
unfortunaetly I currently cannot connect the UPS to X and use the NAS as slave.

Cheers,
  K. C.

Hello,

it seems like the use-case for dummy-ups driver in relay mode. The driver
instance on server X would act as a client to a particular device from NUT
server on the NAS, and republish the data points as its own.

It is also a useful setup for networked UPSes, which often can handle only
a few client connections at once.

Hope this helps,
Jim Klimov

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 19:18 K.C. Tessarek via Nut-upsuser <
nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
> I've searched for quite some time and read the FAQ, but to no avail.
>
> I have a UPS connected to a NAS. Unfortunately I have to specify every
> single
> client IP (ups slave), because the stupid NAS system (QNAP) does not allow
> me
> to set a /16 or /24. Changing the config files manually does not work
> either,
> because the service won't come up anymore. (One has to love QNAP at
this
> point.)
>
> Thus I wanted to setup a nut server + client on a separate machine X.
>
> On X the nut client should read the UPS info via network. It works when
> accessing it on X with: upsc qnapups at qnap-ip
> Using upsmon also works.
>
> Now I want to provide this info to other clients via the nut server on X.
>
> But I wasn't able to set it up so that X is basically a proxy for the
UPS
> on
> the NAS.
>
> Is this even possible? I really could need some help here. And no,
> unfortunaetly I currently cannot connect the UPS to X and use the NAS as
> slave.
>
> Cheers,
>   K. C.
>
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