[Nut-upsuser] Getting "Error: No such host" and [ERR ACCESS-DENIED]

[Charles Lepple]

On Sep 30, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Roger Price wrote:

> I'm using NUT 2.4.1 with openSUSE 11.2, my UPS is an MGE/Eaton  
> Ellipse ASR 1500 USBS.  The set-up is as described at http://rogerprice.org/NUT.html 
> .
>
> Since NUT uses TCP wrappers, I have the /etc/hosts.allow entry
>
> upsd :    10.0.0/24, localhost, LOCAL, 127.0.0.1      : ALLOW
>
> When I pull the plug from the wall to test my setup, I get the  
> sequence of KDE notifications and finally a successful shutdown;  
> just as one would expect from the configuration. :-)
>
> However I cannot access upsc
>
> rprice at glacon2:~> upsc -l
> Eaton-66781
> rprice at glacon2:~> upsc -L `upsc -l`
> Error: No such host

The "-l" and "-L" options can be considered the "short" and "long"  
versions of the "list UPSes" option (where the long version also shows  
the description from ups.conf).

If I understand correctly, your second command line should be: upsc  
`upsc -l` (although this won't work if you add a second UPS).

> and no log messages appear in /var/log/messages or /var/log/warn.
>
> On system startup I get the following messages in /var/log/messages
>
>  usbhid-ups[23704]: Startup successful
>  upsd[23707]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
>  upsd[23707]: listening on ::1 port 3493
>  upsd[23707]: Connected to UPS [Eaton-66781]: usbhid-ups-Eaton-66781
>  upsd[23708]: Startup successful
>  upsmon[23711]: Startup successful
>  upsmon[23712]: Login on UPS [Eaton-66781 at localhost] failed - got
>                 [ERR ACCESS-DENIED]

Your upsd user and password in upsmon.conf (on the MONITOR line) need  
to match an appropriately privileged user in upsd.users.

We're in the midst of overhauling the documentation, so if you see any  
formatting or factual errors on these pages, please let us know:

http://buildbot.networkupstools.org/~buildbot/docs/latest/man/upsmon.conf.html

http://buildbot.networkupstools.org/~buildbot/docs/latest/man/upsd.users.html