[CentOS] using NUT on centos 5

fred smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Tue Sep 21 16:37:57 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:01:47AM -0400, Pat and Lori Boyer wrote:
> I have NUT configured on a few of my CentOS servers. I compiled and
> installed from source (2.4.3), so all of my nut-related files sit under
> /usr/local/ups. I am using a Liebert UPS. Here's how I have it working:
> 
> Connect a serial cable from your server to the UPS (if available; USB is an
> option on some models, I think). The nut software can communicate with the
> UPS via serial on a ttyS (mine is /dev/ttyS0). This server (directly
> attached) must run upsd. Other servers that use the same UPS can communicate
> with upsd running on the first server via upsmon. All servers must run
> upsmon (this is what actually monitors the UPS).

Yes, that would be, I think, straightforward. But mine uses USB, and
despite the instructions with NUT, I can't figure out how to tell it
which USB device to use. I'd appreciate hints on that, should anyone
know.

thanks for the reply, though!

> 
> Configure ups.conf with information about your UPS (mine is liebert). The
> nut docs have a list of supported hardware and the drivers that you use for
> them (I use the driver 'liebert'):
> 
> [liebert]
>         driver = liebert
>         port = /dev/ttyS0
> 
> At least one server attached to each UPS must run upsd. Here's my upsd.conf
> (comments removed). Note that the second line uses the IP address of the LAN
> interface on your server, so that other machines on the same subnet can
> communicate with upsd:
> 
> LISTEN 127.0.0.1 3493
> LISTEN 172.21.97.1 3493
> 
> You have to configure upsd.users to allow access to certain users (one for
> each upsmon process that will communicate with upsd). This information will
> be used to configure upsmon on the clients. For example, I have two servers
> listed here: the local server (server1) and another server attached to the
> same UPS (server2):
> 
> [server1-ups]
>   password  = server1-ups-pass
>   upsmon master
> [server2-ups]
>   password  = server2-ups-pass
>   upsmon slave
> 
> Configure upsmon.conf on each client. Based on the example above, here's the
> upsmon.conf for server1:
> 
> FINALDELAY 5
> MONITOR liebert at localhost 1 server1-ups server1-ups-pass master
> 
> ... and the upsmon.conf for server2:
> 
> FINALDELAY 5
> MONITOR liebert at server1 1 server2-ups server2-ups-pass master
> 
> Once you have ups.conf, upsd.conf, upsd.users, and upsmon.conf configured,
> you can test you connections like the following:
> 
> [root at server1 ~]# /usr/local/ups/bin/upsc liebert at localhost
> device.mfr: Liebert
> device.model: MultiLink
> device.type: ups
> driver.name: liebert
> driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
> driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0
> driver.version: 2.4.3
> driver.version.internal: 1.02
> ups.mfr: Liebert
> ups.model: MultiLink
> ups.status: OL LB
> 
> [root at server2 ~]# /usr/local/ups/bin/upsc liebert at server1
> device.mfr: Liebert
> device.model: MultiLink
> device.type: ups
> driver.name: liebert
> driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
> driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0
> driver.version: 2.4.3
> driver.version.internal: 1.02
> ups.mfr: Liebert
> ups.model: MultiLink
> ups.status: OL LB
> 
> Don't forget to add the nut software to your startup scripts and appropriate
> runlevels. Hope this helps.
> 
> Pat Boyer
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM, fred smith
> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > Trying to set up NUT on Centos 5 to monitor a CyberPower 1500AVR UPS.
> >
> > There seem to be many documents, all of which seem to be not fully
> > consistent
> > with each other, and most of them aren't up to date.
> >
> > I'm guessing I should be using udev rather than hal, but I'm somewhat
> > stumped on how to figure out what device it should be monitoring. there
> > are a bunch of udev rules installed (in
> > /lib/udev/rules.d/52-nut-usbups.rules)
> > but it's not at all clear to me what, if anything, I'm supposed to do with
> > them, or how I cause udev to see them there and do its thing.
> >
> > there's a document at
> > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/kazutoshi_morioka/nut/
> > but it doesn't show how to do it with a USB device, only serial.
> >
> > so I decided to move on and see if it could be made to work without
> > that understanding, using whatever I could figure out using the INSTALL
> > file that comes with NUT.
> >
> > And that isn't geting me anywhere, so far.
> >
> > If anyone out there has had success at setting up NUT on Centos 5 (or RHEL)
> > and can offer any advice, I'd appreciate hearing from you.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > --
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