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