[Nut-upsuser] NUT with PowerWalker vi 400 se (usb).

[Charles Lepple]

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On Jul 3, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Никита Шишков wrote:

> Здравствуйте, Charles.
>
> Вы писали 3 июля 2008 г., 22:14:59:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Никита Шишков  
>> <nick at uploader.ru> wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>> I'm from Russia.
>>> I try to use NUT with PowerWalker vi 400 se (usb).
>>> I use FreeBSD 7.0 (amd64) and megatec_usb driver.
>>> Settingup the NUT with FreeBSD installation procedure (Thierry  
>>> Thomas, from FreeBSD).
>
>> Can you point us to the procedure that you followed?
>
>
> 1.
> install with usb support
> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/nut/ && make install clean
>
> 2.
> edit rc.conf
> nut_enable="YES"
> nut_upslog_enable="YES"
> nut_upsmon_enable="YES"
>
> 3.
> ups.conf
> [ups_name]
>         driver = megatec_usb
>         port = /dev/usb0
> 4.
> cp upsd.conf.sample upsd.conf
>
> 5.
> upsd.users
>         # Supervision user
>         [admin]
>                 password = mypass
>                 allowfrom = localhost
>                 actions = SET
>                 instcmds = ALL
>
>         # Protection user
>         [monuser]
>                 password  = mypass
>                 allowfrom = localhost
>                 upsmon master
> 6.
> upsmon.conf
> MONITOR ups_name at localhost 1 monuser mypass master
>
> 7.
> devfs.rules
> [nut_usb=10]
> #and I try [nut_usb=01] or [nut_usb=0] or [nut_usb=00] because i dont
> #understand what is it.

I am not too familiar with devfs, but "10" may just be a priority here.

> add path 'uhib0' group wheel user uucp mode 0660

The device name should be 'uhid0'. After you plug in the UPS, what  
does 'ls -l /dev/uhid0' say?

> devfs.conf
> perm    usb0    0660
> own     usb0    root:uucp
>
> 8.
> rc.conf add
> devfs_system_ruleset="nut_usb"
>
> restart devfs: /etc/rc.d/devfs restart
>
> 9.
> Start
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nut start
>
> No support device found...

Is this procedure listed online somewhere? Or is it part of the ports  
collection?

-- 
Charles Lepple
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