[Nut-upsuser] I Need help configuring my UPS- Noobie.

[Alexander I. Gordeev]

Hi John,

On Sunday 16 November 2008 13:14:15 John @ BER Ltd wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm at my wits end and need help regarding my UPS. I am a newbie to Linux
> (10 months) and need help with trying to configure my UPS to my Linux SME
> server.
> I have little or no experience with Bash and am finding it overwhelming
> when it comes to trying to configure my UPS.
>  I have installed my UPS to my Linux SME server and have installed my
> driver for it. At best I think its running but not configured properly.
> The UPS is connected via USB and am using the megatec-usb driver.
> I am able to run the upsmon command and it gives me all the relevant info
> about the UPS-charge voltage/input/output etc...
>
>
> Broadcast message from nut (Sun Nov 16 23:05:08 2008):
>
> Communications with UPS UPS at localhost established
>
> Broadcast message from nut (Sun Nov 16 23:05:08 2008):
>
> Communications with UPS UPS at localhost established
>
> [root at server etc]# upsc UPS at localhost
> battery.charge: 95.0
> battery.voltage: 13.50
> battery.voltage.nominal: 12.0
> driver.name: megatec_usb
> driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
> driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0
> driver.version: 2.2.0-
> driver.version.internal: 1.5.4
> input.frequency: 50.0
> input.voltage: 235.0
> input.voltage.fault: 165.0
> input.voltage.maximum: 244.0
> input.voltage.minimum: 218.0
> output.voltage: 235.0
> output.voltage.nominal: 225.0
> ups.beeper.status: enabled
> ups.delay.shutdown: 0
> ups.delay.start: 2
> ups.load: 20.0
> ups.mfr: KEBO
> ups.model: UPS-650VA VER7.03
> ups.serial: unknown
> ups.status: OL
> ups.temperature: 0.0
> [root at server etc]#
>
>
> I keep getting errors from the server regarding loosing and reconnecting
> with the UPS appx every 10 mins.
>
> here's the email my server generates...
>
> Communications with UPS UPS at localhost
> <https://192.168.0.254/horde/imp/message.php?mailbox=INBOX&index=56795#>
> established
>
> Communications with UPS UPS at localhost
> <https://192.168.0.254/horde/imp/message.php?mailbox=INBOX&index=56792#>
> lost
> every 10 minutes...
>
> Can anyone help regarding how to properly configure nut and to edit the
> config file. I'm at a lost how to do this within bash- I'm very new to bash
> and am only able to use cd,ls, and other very basic command. I run the vi
> command to edit the nut config file but just get some kind of weird
> display??. Am I beyond help? I'm keen to learn and get all the backup
> systems properly sorted on my server. UPS is one and a fail-safe clone
> server is another.Can anyone help?
>
> Hope I've made sense, the terminology may not be accurate, please excuse
> me.

Please provide the output of lsusb.

--
  Alexander