[Nut-upsuser] APC Smart-UPS 3000XL: Compatible/Any good?

2010-02-10 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Hello list. I'm contemplating buying new batteries and putting an older APC Smart-UPS 3000XL back into service. Would that work well with NUT? Any drawbacks to consider? Thank you, Tobias -- Tobias Balle-Petersen Kontrapunkt Group / System Administrator

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-09 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Hello Kjell. Kjell Claesson wrote: You have been busy i see. OK it is possible to set the 9120 to requsted mode only, and this is done by the serial driver part. And it should remain so after power cycling. How is this accomplished? Any chance of a step by step tutorial? One thing that

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PW9120 - Shutdown condition?

2007-11-09 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Hello Arjen. Arjen de Korte wrote: In general, shutdown will be triggered when the UPS is both on battery *and* reporting low battery. The latter may or may not be user configurable. In your case, it looks like the driver has no way of changing this level, so when this actually happens

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-08 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Arnaud Quette wrote: the source repository is also there (now) if you will to rebuild the package ;-) Hmmm... I guess I need a kernel newer than the one in atable: Unpacking nut (from nut_2.2.0-1_powerpc.deb) ... Setting up nut (2.2.0-1) ... udev requires a kernel = 2.6.15, not started.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-08 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Hi Arnaud. Arnaud Quette wrote: the source repository is also there (now) if you will to rebuild the package ;-) Great, sounds good. I was just about to compile from the source on the site. I guess this way is better/easier. I'll give it a try and report back. Thanks, Tobias

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-08 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Hello... Just to make sure I did a clean install of debian etch and tested. I still get the same errors. Nut 2.0.4. Tobias ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-08 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Hello Kjell Claesson wrote: Then you should get new version of nut as 2.0.4 is past date. I have updated to nut 2.2.0-1 as suggested. Unfortunately I still get the same type of errors: Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.0- Network UPS Tools - BCMXCP UPS driver 0.11 (2.2.0-)

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-08 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Hello Arjen. Arjen de Korte wrote: Have you tried the serial connection? No, there is no serial port on my machine. 1) Apparently, this UPS needs to be told only to reply to specific requests and not send unsollicited status updates. The bcmxcp (serial) driver supposedly does this, the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-08 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote: Hmmm... I guess I need a kernel newer than the one in atable: Just realized I dont have the etch stable kernel on my testing system. Igonre the above. Thanks, Tobias ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-08 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Hi Arnaud. Arnaud Quette wrote: add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://opensource.mgeops.com/stable/debian binary/ I'm running on a PowerPC. The repository only has i386 packages as far as I can tell. Tobias ___ Nut-upsuser

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-08 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Hello all. I have now connected the UPS via a serial-cable to a PC running Debian Etch and Nut 2.0.4. When running upsdrvctl -u root start I get: Communications with UPS lost: Error executing command Communications with UPS lost: Error executing command Communications with UPS lost: Error

Re: [Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-07 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
Hi Kjell. Kjell Claesson wrote: It looks like you have a problem with the usb connection. Check the cabling. The driver is using a binary protocol with checksum, and is hard on bit errors. I have tried two different USB-cables. The one that came with the UPS and another one I had lying

[Nut-upsuser] PowerWare 9120 via USB?

2007-11-02 Thread Tobias Balle-Petersen
-driver does not allow the UPS to be shut down. This is why I am now turning to USB. Any ideas as to how I can get my setup running? Thank you, Tobias Balle-Petersen ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http