[Nut-upsdev] Question about NUT-Monitor

[john hart]

I have just recently gotten NUT to work on my system, with much assistance from Charles Lepple, and am very grateful for his assistance.  
I now have a question regarding the NUT-Monitor program.  There is a tool in the GUI that is for sending devicecommands.  I can't get it to work.  Whenever I try to send a command I get the following message:
Failed to send <command>  (ERR USERNAME REQUIRED) 
How do I give the program a username?  I would have thought that it would get it from the  upsd.users file .I tried to launch NUT-Monitor from a terminal as super user, but that also did not work.  
It would be nice to be able to execute a battery test .  
Thanks for the help.
John 
"Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle" 
-attributed to Bertrand Russel
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