[Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas

[John Lechanski]

Hi Charles,
  I went into the gui and printed the syslog...I'm not sure how to read it and I've included a picture of the bottom of my UPS...I'm unsure about a USB vendor ID but I have the manual which I attached.  

Thanks,
John

> CC: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
> From: clepple at gmail.com
> To: johnski49 at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas
> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:56:48 -0400
> 
> [please keep the list CC'd. nut-upsuser is the best place for this  
> thread.]
> 
> On Jun 25, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Lechanski wrote:
> 
> > 1.  the specifications of my ups: F6C750-AVR; it has 750VA, more  
> > than enough to power my system, which is all that is on the ups.
> 
> What are the USB Vendor ID and Product ID?
> 
> You may need to open a shell for that. I haven't used Solaris USB  
> support, so I'm not sure what commands to use.
> 
> > 2.  the first picture you'll see is when I unplug and plug in my ups  
> > via USB into the same USB port of the NAS.
> > 3.  the second picture is going to the UPS feature on Freenas  
> > 0.7.2.5543.  I have the OS running from a thumb drive and I have two  
> > sets of drives you'll see in the pic, one a raid 5 configuration  
> > (hard wired raid with addonics raid card) and the other is just a  
> > free floating HDD, no back-up.
> > 4.  the next pictures you'll see is what happens when I try  
> > different configurations on the gui.  The first pair (pic 3 & 4) are  
> > the config and what it says on my nas.  When I enter this  
> > configuration, the nas beeps once and the screen says the first  
> > thing you see "Broadcast Message..." then after about 5 seconds,  
> > another beep and the second line "UPS ups at localhost is unavailable"
> 
> Any log entries in syslog?
> 
> > 5.  picture 5 is what happens when I change my configuration, still  
> > same error, and same reaction by nas box.
> > 6.  the final picture is what happens when I implement a solution  
> > that I found on-line.  the gui software says success and my nas box  
> > has no change (in other words, nothing happens on my screen when I  
> > implement this configuration, no beeping, no nothing).  I then try  
> > to simulate a power outage by yanking the plug on the ups; the ups  
> > is on battery and the nas keeps going as if nothing is wrong.
> 
> The genericups driver cannot do error checking:
> 
> http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/genericups.html
> 
> With a USB cable, you would only use genericups if you were sure that  
> the UPS is a basic contact-closure model with a USB-to-serial adapter  
> supported by the OS.
> 
> > I hope this clarifies things, no matter what configuration I use, I  
> > either get the error messages on the gui and the nas beeps twice  
> > with the above mentioned quotations or I get the one success in #6  
> > but it won't work.
> 
> My overall impression is that the freenas UPS support needs more  
> diagnostic information.
 		 	   		  
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