Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Chapman
Hi Tomas Thanks for the offer of the fixed udev rules. Please do send - with any instructions I might need to install it. I'll let you know how it goes. It appears that my email address is published on this thread anyway. BTW: You may have followed this thread from when I was trying to get

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT auto-discovery [Was: Re: Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS]

2007-11-27 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
On Nov 27, 2007 12:56 PM, Carlos Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. most medium/large datacenters have a small number of large UPSes with generator backups, so NUT is rather pointless; 2. the datacenter has a big UPS and no generator backup, and people find their 60 minute runtime enough

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT auto-discovery [Was: Re: Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS]

2007-11-27 Thread Charles Lepple
On Nov 27, 2007 6:01 AM, Carlos Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about the change in the subject, I was goink to ask how hard would it be to implement some kind of auto-discovery/centralized configuration for slave upsmon's but after thinking a bit I though it would be too much work

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT auto-discovery [Was: Re: Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS]

2007-11-27 Thread Arjen de Korte
A big issue with auto-discovery is trust. You wouldn't want someone to be able to randomly shut down machines on your network just by starting a rogue copy of NUT. Another problem is when you discover multiple UPS'es, which one you're connected to? In a desktop system with only one UPS

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT auto-discovery [Was: Re: Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS]

2007-11-27 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
On Nov 27, 2007 3:59 PM, Arjen de Korte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you have only one UPS in your network, this might work. Otherwise, one UPS going offline might cause all clients to shutdown. This is probably not very desireable. What I had in mind was more of a centrally managed

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT auto-discovery [Was: Re: Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS]

2007-11-27 Thread Arjen de Korte
Carlos Rodrigues wrote: When you have only one UPS in your network, this might work. Otherwise, one UPS going offline might cause all clients to shutdown. This is probably not very desireable. What I had in mind was more of a centrally managed configuration, than no configuration. For

[Nut-upsuser] CyberPower 1500AVRT won't load driver!

2007-11-27 Thread Christian Frye
Hello! I got my hands on a CyberPower 1500AVRT, and i'm trying to get it connected to my Gentoo machine. I've followed all the basic guides on setting up NUT and UPS' but have had no luck. My current ups.conf is: [cyberpower-gentoo] driver = cyberpower port = /dev/ttyS0

Re: [Nut-upsuser] CyberPower 1500AVRT won't load driver!

2007-11-27 Thread Christian Frye
Thanks for the quick response! I have tried the powerpanel drivers. It timesout after about 5-10seconds. This is it's output: Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.0 Network UPS Tools - CyberPower text/binary protocol UPS driver 0.22 (2.2.0) Warning: This is an experimental driver. Some

Re: [Nut-upsuser] CyberPower 1500AVRT won't load driver!

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Chapman
I can't really help - but have a similar problem with a different UPS. I have a Belkin ups with belkinunv driver which claims to support my model. I get a different error - but essentially the same issue. It just doesn't seem to get anything back from the UPS on ttyS0. I have checked the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] CyberPower 1500AVRT won't load driver!

2007-11-27 Thread Charles Lepple
On Nov 27, 2007 10:11 PM, Richard Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't really help - but have a similar problem with a different UPS. I have a Belkin ups with belkinunv driver which claims to support my model. I get a different error - but essentially the same issue. It just doesn't seem