[Nut-upsdev] Question on support for Upsonic Commercial UPS CXR 2000 - 2000VA/1200W - Rack/Tower on Freebsd 9.1.

Chris Duffy cjd at small-tree.com
Wed Feb 5 15:37:27 UTC 2014


Charles,

I forgot.....
I have attached a tar file of
the ups/nut related config files
so you can see what I am using ....

Regards
chris

On 2/5/14, 9:12 AM, Chris Duffy wrote:
> Charles,
>
> We run everything as "root"  :)
>
> However, we are using NUT 2.6.5.
>
> Are we missing something by running 2.6.5 rather then
> 2.7.1?  If so, I can build/install 2.7.1.
>
> Thx
> chris
>
>
> Would On 2/4/14, 9:05 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:
>> On Feb 4, 2014, at 9:05 AM, Chris Duffy wrote:
>>
>>> ugen1.3: <USB UPS PPC> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW (1.5Mbps) 
>>> pwr=ON
>> [...]
>>>   idVendor = 0x06da
>>>    idProduct = 0x0005
>> This VID:PID combination should be handled by blazer_usb. In NUT 
>> 2.7.1 and later, this would be covered by nutdrv_qx as well.
>>
>>> I am running all the ups programs as root, i.e. "ps -aux" shows:
>>>
>>> root   39901   0.0  0.0  22388  3860 ??  Is   12:57AM 0:00.00 
>>> /usr/local/bin/upslog -s UPSonic at localhost -l /var/log/ups.log 
>>> -i       300 -u root
>>> root   39976   0.0  0.0  22392  3804 ??  Is   12:57AM 0:00.00 
>>> /usr/local/sbin/upsmon -u root localhost
>>> root   39978   0.0  0.0  22392  3900 ??  S    12:57AM 0:00.01 
>>> /usr/local/sbin/upsmon -u root localhost
>> The key program to run with "-u root" is the driver.
>>
>> When I mentioned logs, I was thinking syslog (/var/log/messages, 
>> probably). I hadn't considered upslog, but apparently the *BSD ports 
>> tree starts a copy by default.
>>
>> For instance: /usr/local/libexec/nut/blazer_usb -a UPSonic -u root -D
>>
>>> The /var/log/ups.log does not have much in it either that
>>> makes sense....maybe I need a utility to decode it?
>>> Sample lines from the is file are:
>>>
>>> 20140131 103652 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA
>> upslog basically condenses the output of upsc into one line per 
>> polling interval, but this falls apart if the driver hasn't started. 
>> (The error message from upsc is more descriptive, since it isn't 
>> trying to force it into a bunch of columns). Once the driver is 
>> running, you will see numbers there, corresponding to the default 
>> format string:
>>
>>     http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upslog.html
>>
>
>


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