[Nut-upsuser] APC Smart UPS at a Mac Mini

[Wolfgang Hottgenroth]

If you don't have an UPS with an USB port but only with a serial port and if you want to feed multiple devices from that UPS and want to shutdown them triggered by a master the UPS is connected to, you have to, unfortunately.
I know the panel in the system preferences you are talking about, but it appears only when you attach the UPS via USB (direct USB, not via an serial to USB converter as I do). And thereby it does not appear for me.
I've installed nut via macports and I have to do all these low level stuff on my own. However, the benefit is, that I can trigger the shutdown of my 8T-ReadyNAS too. (And that works fine, only the switch off of the UPS does not happen.)

Or do you know another way to handle this problem: UPS only attachable via serial port (or serial to USB converter) and distribution of the final shutdown command to multiple devices?


Cheers,
Wolfgang




Am 31.08.2011 um 10:45 schrieb Jerome BENOIT:

> Hello List:
> 
> On 31/08/11 10:37, Wolfgang Hottgenroth wrote:
>> Ah, okay, I noted that item and considered it when I connected the UPS the first time to the Mac and was wondering why it does not comes up again after a power failure test. But that's not my current problem: my current problem is: how can I switch off the UPS once the shutdown process of the MAC OS X is done.
>> 
>> I found in a Debian installation for instance that there is a hook into the very last /etc/init.d script (K90halt or something like that) which calls the ups driver to send the shutdown command to the UPS. Now I'm looking for such a hook on the Mac.
>> 
> you may not have to do such low level stuff on Mac.
> 
> Do you have any panel that allow to configure your UPS ?
> 
> Jerome
> 
> 
>> Cheers and thanks,
>> Wolfgang
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Am 30.08.2011 um 17:44 schrieb Jerome BENOIT:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 30/08/11 16:06, Wolfgang Hottgenroth wrote:
>>>> I'm running Mac OS X. But I can't find my question answered in the FAQ. Do you have a pointer into the FAQ for me, to the particular part where you consider my question answered?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Point 18 :
>>> 
>>> http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/FAQ.html#_my_mac_won_8217_t_power_back_up_by_itself_into_mac_os_x_after_the_ups_shuts_down_what_can_i_do_about_this
>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Wolfgang
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Am 30.08.2011 um 16:01 schrieb Jerome BENOIT:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello Wolfgang:
>>>>> 
>>>>> if you run Mac OS X, you may find an answer in the FAQ;
>>>>> if you run Linux, you may check the mailing list archive
>>>>> as I post something a bout in March.
>>>>> 
>>>>> hth,
>>>>> Jerome
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 29/08/11 13:14, Wolfgang Hottgenroth wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm using a APC Smart UPS with a Mac Mini, connected using a USB serial converter.
>>>>>> Works fine so far, the Mac Mini will be shut down, a NAS connected of the network to the nut on Mac Mini will also shut down, perfect.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> However, the ups will not be shut down. Very unfortunate, since the Mac will not start again, if the power comes back before the batteries are completely empty.
>>>>>> I read about /etc/killpower and a may be required modification of the shutdown script.
>>>>>> But there is no such script in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Can anyone help?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you very much and cheers,
>>>>>> Wolfgang
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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