[Nut-upsuser] "Master privileges unavailable" &

[Arjen de Korte]

> What does this mean?
>
>>Feb 19 07:58:11 apophis upsmon[533]: [ID 702911 daemon.alert] Master
>> privileges unavailable on UPS [ups at apophis]
>>Feb 19 07:58:11 apophis upsmon[533]: [ID 702911 daemon.alert] Reason:
>> Access denied

You need to specify in upsd.users an allowfrom line to allow a master. See
'man 5 upsd.conf' for a more detailed explanation and some examples. If
you already did this, verify that you specified an ACL from upsd.conf and
not an IP-address or -range (which is wrong).

> And is it normal for my UPS (APC SmartUPS 620) to drop into battery mode
> for a few seconds every day
> or so? Or is this a main supply glitch? Nothing else in the house notices
> anything.
>
>>Feb 17 10:50:45 apophis upsmon[532]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] UPS
>> ups at apophis on battery
>>Feb 17 10:50:55 apophis upsmon[532]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] UPS
>> ups at apophis on line power

There can be mainly two reasons. If this happens every day at the same
time (or the interval between these is *very* constant), this might be a
selftest of the UPS. It can also be a small glitch in the mains. One of
the UPS'es I have is particularly picky about this. It will even trigger
on the distribution transformer around the corner stepping to a different
tap (which happens usually early in the morning and late in the
afternoon).

Best regards, Arjen
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