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

[Bobby Kent]

Hi John,

You should use the Linux (or equivalent) command lsusb to find the USB
Vendor and Product Id, e.g.:

# lsusb
[...]
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0764:0601 Cyber Power System, Inc. 
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 050d:0751 Belkin Components 
[...]
#

I’m not sure whether this is duplicate information, my mailbox was filled by
the attachments to your previous email.  Might be an idea to reduce the
resolution a little before sending (see attached), or using a service like
photobucket and provide a link ...

From: On Behalf Of John Lechanski
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 09:34
To: clepple at gmail.com
Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas

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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