[Nut-upsuser] Two UPS via SNMP at one ubunut box

[Charles Lepple]

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> On Apr 18, 2017, at 3:27 AM, Karsten Kortenhorn <karstenkortenhorn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I use upsd 2.7.2 on ubuntu 16.04.2  LTS. "ps aux" don't display upsmon!

That's the first thing to troubleshoot.

The flow of information is: SNMP card -> driver -> upsd -> clients (upsmon, upsc, CGI). So if upsc and the CGI scripts show valid data, they are pulling it from upsd.

Do you see any log messages related to upsmon startup? (journalctl -t upsmon)

What happens if you start upsmon manually? (sudo upsmon)

> Is it even possible to check two UPS via SNMP in building A and B from one Linux Box (ubuntu-nut-server) to shutdown two  datacenter in building A or B if needed?

Sure, you just need to be certain that when the power goes out, all of the network connections between the server and the UPS are still powered on. Otherwise, the last status that the server sees is "OL", and then it goes to "data stale" when it cannot reach the UPS over SNMP. Likewise, you will need to be able to send the shutdown command over the network to those servers.

> My plan is to shutdown all server in building B if power fails in building B and to shutdown all server in building A if power fails in building A. It is not so important to shutdown the ubuntu-nut-server. I can include him in one shutdown-building-script.

This sounds reasonable.