[Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas

[Charles Lepple]

[please keep the list CC'd. nut-upsuser is the best place for this  
thread.]

On Jun 25, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Lechanski wrote:

> 1.  the specifications of my ups: F6C750-AVR; it has 750VA, more  
> than enough to power my system, which is all that is on the ups.

What are the USB Vendor ID and Product ID?

You may need to open a shell for that. I haven't used Solaris USB  
support, so I'm not sure what commands to use.

> 2.  the first picture you'll see is when I unplug and plug in my ups  
> via USB into the same USB port of the NAS.
> 3.  the second picture is going to the UPS feature on Freenas  
> 0.7.2.5543.  I have the OS running from a thumb drive and I have two  
> sets of drives you'll see in the pic, one a raid 5 configuration  
> (hard wired raid with addonics raid card) and the other is just a  
> free floating HDD, no back-up.
> 4.  the next pictures you'll see is what happens when I try  
> different configurations on the gui.  The first pair (pic 3 & 4) are  
> the config and what it says on my nas.  When I enter this  
> configuration, the nas beeps once and the screen says the first  
> thing you see "Broadcast Message..." then after about 5 seconds,  
> another beep and the second line "UPS ups at localhost is unavailable"

Any log entries in syslog?

> 5.  picture 5 is what happens when I change my configuration, still  
> same error, and same reaction by nas box.
> 6.  the final picture is what happens when I implement a solution  
> that I found on-line.  the gui software says success and my nas box  
> has no change (in other words, nothing happens on my screen when I  
> implement this configuration, no beeping, no nothing).  I then try  
> to simulate a power outage by yanking the plug on the ups; the ups  
> is on battery and the nas keeps going as if nothing is wrong.

The genericups driver cannot do error checking:

http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/genericups.html

With a USB cable, you would only use genericups if you were sure that  
the UPS is a basic contact-closure model with a USB-to-serial adapter  
supported by the OS.

> I hope this clarifies things, no matter what configuration I use, I  
> either get the error messages on the gui and the nas beeps twice  
> with the above mentioned quotations or I get the one success in #6  
> but it won't work.

My overall impression is that the freenas UPS support needs more  
diagnostic information.