[Nut-upsuser] UPS Monitor Won't Start: invalid directive monitor

[Jim Klimov]

The "serial" config fields are for serial numbers, and I'd expect they are
what helps NUT identify your devices.

Some value of "port" is required; maybe it could be the "/dev/apc-X"
instead of "auto".

Jim

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021, 11:04 Jarrod Coombes via Nut-upsuser <
nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:

> > most of NUT is case-sensitive, so this should be "MONITOR".
>
> That seems to have done the trick. Did I miss that in the documentation?
> It's definitely not called out in the example config, is it possible to
> make a suggestion that this get added? It would have saved a ton of time
> and head bashing.
>
> > If these dev nodes work, it is just coincidence
>
> Well if I remove them, then I get errors about duplicate commands and the
> upsc command clearly returns info from only one UPS. So it would appear
> that the "port = " is definitely not being ignored by something.
>
> >In your case, it sounds like you can specify "serial =" for each UPS in
> ups.conf.
>
> So "serial = /dev/apc-t" and " "serial = /dev/apc-b" under the appropriate
> UPS in the config?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
>
> Jarrod
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 7:21 PM Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 21, 2021, at 9:28 PM, Jarrod Coombes via Nut-upsuser <
>> nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > When I try to start the UPS monitor service I get:
>> >
>> > Starting Network UPS Tools - power device monitor and shutdown
>> controller...
>> > fopen /run/nut/upsmon.pid: No such file or directory
>> > /etc/nut/upsmon.conf line 86: invalid directive monitor APC-t at localhost
>> 1 admin <8 random letters> master
>> > /etc/nut/upsmon.conf line 87: invalid directive monitor APC-b at localhost
>> 1 admin <8 random letters> master
>>
>>                                                  ^^^^^^^ most of NUT is
>> case-sensitive, so this should be "MONITOR".
>>
>> > The two UPSes are identical, so I created some custom udev rules to
>> create /dev/apc-t and /dev/apc-b and this appears to work. I can run ls
>> /dev/a* and get:
>> >
>> > /dev/apc-b  /dev/apc-t  /dev/autofs
>>
>> If these dev nodes work, it is just coincidence - the usbhid-ups driver
>> cannot open a specific UPS by a /dev node, and the port option is ignored:
>>
>> https://networkupstools.org/docs/man/usbhid-ups.html#_implementation
>>
>> In your case, it sounds like you can specify "serial =" for each UPS in
>> ups.conf.
>>
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