[Nut-upsuser] machine not shutting down and connection failures in logs

[Riccardo Magliocchetti]

Hi Charles,

Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Riccardo Magliocchetti
> <riccardo.magliocchetti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is my first nut installation, i see lot of connection failure and when i tried
>> the configuration removing the power chord from the ups i expected tha machine will
>> power itslef down but this has not happened.
>>
>> I'm using nut 2.2.2-2 from debian lenny, ups is a mustek powermust 2000 with usb cable.
> 
> Which machine is the UPS connected to?

mybox is the same machine as localhost

>> All config files are root:nut and 640, i've had to add nut user to nut group manually.
> 
> You might want to file a bug with Debian about adding the nut user to
> the nut group. That should happen automatically.

will do

>> ups.conf:
>> [bongups]
>> driver = megatec_usb
>> port = auto
>> desc "UPS Mustek PowerMust 2000"
>>
>> upsd.conf:
>> ACL all 0.0.0.0/0
>> ACL localhost 127.0.0.1/32
>> ACL mybox 192.168.10.75/32
>>
>> ACCEPT localhost
>> ACCEPT mybox
>> REJECT all
>>
>> upsd.users:
>> [admin]
>>        password = pass
>>        allowfrom = localhost
>>        upsmon master
>>
>> [monuser]
>>        password = pass
>>        allowfrom = mybox
>>        upsmon master
>>
>> upsmon.conf:
>> POWERDOWNFLAG /etc/nut/killpower
>> MONITOR bongups at mybox 1 monuser pass master
>> SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -h +0"
>>
>> syslog (daemon.log):
>>
>> Jul 30 09:13:18 bong upsd[2819]: listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3493
>> Jul 30 09:13:18 bong upsd[2819]: Can't connect to UPS [bongups] (megatec_usb-bongups): No such file or directory
>> Jul 30 09:13:18 bong upsd[2820]: Startup successful
>> Jul 30 09:13:28 bong upsmon[2823]: Startup successful
>> Jul 30 09:13:32 bong megatec_usb[2829]: Startup successful
>> Jul 30 09:13:32 bong upsd[2820]: Connected to UPS [bongups]: megatec_usb-bongups
>> Jul 30 09:13:34 bong upsd[2820]: Data for UPS [bongups] is stale - check driver
>> Jul 30 09:13:43 bong upsd[2820]: UPS [bongups] data is no longer stale
> 
> At this point in the log, it looks like megatec_usb has finally
> connected. Can you retrieve status data with 'upsc bongups at localhost'
> on that machine?

yeah, i missed to say that uspc works fine

>> Jul 30 09:16:37 bong upsmon[2824]: UPS [bongups at mybox]: connect failed: Connection failure: Connection timed out
>> Jul 30 09:16:37 bong upsmon[2824]: Communications with UPS bongups at mybox lost
>> Jul 30 09:19:51 bong upsmon[2824]: UPS [bongups at mybox]: connect failed: Connection failure: Connection timed out
>> Jul 30 09:19:51 bong upsmon[2824]: UPS bongups at mybox is unavailable
> 
> Here it looks like you are trying to connect to another machine.
> 
> If you have a single machine that you are trying to monitor, you can
> use e.g. bongups at localhost in the upsmon.conf file.

It's on the same machine, will retry using localhost instead

> If you are monitoring an UPS on a remote machine, be sure that you
> have network connectivity between the two, and that the NUT port is
> not firewalled. You can check this with e.g. 'upsc
> bongups at remote-machine' from the machine where the UPS is not
> connected.

thanks,
Riccardo