[Nut-upsdev] Question about NUT-Monitor

[Gernot Zander]

Hi,

am 15 Jul schrieb 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 refer to debian's "NUT Monitor" (python): One started it connects to
localhost/default ups or so without username/pwd.
Then click disconnect and "use auth" checkbox will be clickable and
login data may be entered. The ups must be selected now, connect again
and the commands will work.

CU,
Gernot