[Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Max 1100 configuration question

[Chris Cohen]

I spent half the night getting this to work... and only got a little 
further. The only difference I found is:

On my Desktop with psp installed, but not running:
mrkofee at daisy:~$ sudo /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a mgeups
Network UPS Tools: 0.29 USB communication driver - core 0.32 (2.2.1-)

Using subdriver: MGE HID 1.01

On my Server without psp but exactly the same configuration in /e/n/:
mrkofee at fry:~$ sudo /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a mgeups
Network UPS Tools: 0.29 USB communication driver - core 0.32 (2.2.1-)

No matching HID UPS found

Is there anything else I can do? The UPS would be pretty useless without 
the ability to shut my server down during a blackout.


On Wednesday 21 May 2008 23:19:44 Chris Cohen wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008 22:43:26 you wrote:
> > 2008/5/21, Chris Cohen <kildau-ml at gmx.de>:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > > I bought an Ellipse MAX 1100 a few months ago.
> >
> > excellent choice ;-)
> >
> > > First I attached it to my
> > > desktop and installed mge's personal solution pac. (a graphical
> > > interface which uses nut). It works. But I want to attach the ups
> > > to my server which runs without an x-server.
> > > I followed http://opensource.mgeups.com/install/debian.htm.
> > > Didn't work.
> >
> > these are outdated, and will probably never be updated again.
> > and I've not yet had time to take care of opensource.mgeops.com
> >
> > > Then I copied over the configuration files which the personal
> > > solution pac on my desktop created. But I get the same error as
> > > with my manual configuration:
> > >
> > > May 21 18:56:43 fry upsd[7812]: listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3493
> > > May 21 18:56:43 fry upsd[7812]: Can't connect to UPS [mgeups]
> > > (usbhid-ups-mgeups): No such file or directory
> > > May 21 18:56:43 fry upsd[7813]: Startup successful
> > > May 21 19:01:43 fry upsd[7813]: Can't connect to UPS [mgeups]
> > > (usbhid-ups-mgeups): No such file or directory
> > > May 21 19:06:43 fry upsd[7813]: Can't connect to UPS [mgeups]
> > > (usbhid-ups-mgeups): No such file or directory
> > > May 21 19:11:44 fry upsd[7813]: Can't connect to UPS [mgeups]
> > > (usbhid-ups-mgeups): No such file or directory
> > >
> > > So I started PSPmon my desktopo again and looked into daemon.log.
> > > Then I noticed that PSP doesn't start nut. So I did. Same error
> > > as above. Why does PSP work and how do I get nut on my server to
> > > work with this UPS?
> >
> > to answer your question:
> > - psp only autodetect your MGE UPS and configure nut.
> > then the service are started by the system at boot.
> > - on your master machine (the one running PSP):
> >    * you have to allow client connection in upsd.conf ("ACL
> > mynetwork X.X.X.X/Y" and add mynetwork to "ACCEPT")
> >    * you have to define an "upsmon slave" user in upsd.users
> > - on your slave machine:
> >    * you only need upsmon.conf
> >    * you should only set START_UPSMON to yes in /etc/default/nut
> >    * you have to point the master machine (the one running PSP) in
> > upsmon.conf, also using the upsmon slave login/password created
> > above.
>
> First, thanks for your reply, but I think you didn't really
> understand what I want to do. I want to connect the UPS to my server
> via usb since my desktop doesn't run all the time. I can't run PSP on
> my server since its headless. So I did pretty much the same you told
> me to.
> But all I get is  Can't connect to UPS [mgeups]  (usbhid-ups-mgeups):
> No such file or directory. Nothing works. I don't even understand
> what this error means. What file is nut looking for and where should
> it be?
>
> > For more information: man upsd.conf, upsmon.conf, ... and the
> > online documentation.
>
> Already did that ;)