[Nut-upsuser] (newb) Installing on windows w/Eaton 5110.

[Bruce Bowler]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:51:04 -0500
Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Bruce Bowler wrote:
> 
> > upsdrvctl stop and start don't complain...
> > 
> > ------------
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\NUT\bin>upsdrvctl stop
> > Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.6.5-3723:3731M
> > 
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\NUT\bin>upsdrvctl start
> > Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.6.5-3723:3731M
> > 
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\NUT\bin>Network UPS Tools - BCMXCP UPS driver
> > 0.26 (2.6.5 -3723:3731M)
> > USB communication subdriver 0.21
> > -------------
> 
> I'm not sure how this works on the Windows port, but you also need
> upsd running.
> 
> This diagram shows how the pieces go together:
> 
> http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/developer-guide.chunked/ar01s02.html#_the_layering
> 
> > But many other commands complain...
> > 
> > -------------
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\NUT\bin>upsc nutdev1
> > Error: Connection failure: Unknown error
> > -------------
> 
> upsdrvctl seems to have successfully started the bcmxcp_usb driver,
> but for upsc to get data from the driver, it needs to go through
> upsd. If you have a TCP port listening on 3493, then upsd is running.
> 
> > For what it's worth, the 'system' is a host with several 'vmware
> > player' VMs running on it. The eventual goal would be to have the
> > host running as a nut server and have each of the VMs running a nut
> > client so they can shut themselves down gracefully in the event of
> > a longer power outage.
> 
> 
> Makes sense. Depending on how long a shutdown/startup cycle takes, it
> could be useful to suspend the VMs.
> 

Thanks for the pointers.  I'll poke around a bit about upsd and see
what turns up.  

Bruce

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