Re: [Nut-upsuser] Unitek UPS 1250xD - megatec_usb driver

2008-02-17 Thread Arjen de Korte
Carlos Rodrigues wrote: If the driver fails to get any data in the current polling cycle, it declares the data as stale until the next cycle. It tried to read the data, it got nothing, ergo the current data is stale. That's a bit too harsh. Even serial communication is sometimes plagued by

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Riello Dialog Plus UPS

2008-02-16 Thread Arjen de Korte
I have discovered that if you build a custom cable you can use the genericups driver (tha cable supplied with the UPS does not work)... How is that one wired? I have build a normal RS232 DTE-DCE cable (I have connected pin 1 with pin 1, pin 2 with pin 2, and so on... using two DB-9

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Riello Dialog Plus UPS

2008-02-15 Thread Arjen de Korte
I have a Riello Dialog Plus UPS... someone knows how to configure nut for this UPS? [...] All messages start with a STX and end with a ETX; all the messages from the application start with a STX SPACE ! and the response from the UPS with a STX ! SPACE It doesn't look like anything

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Solaris/NUT 'wall' behaviour

2008-02-14 Thread Arjen de Korte
@Huge: Could you post a diff for the change you made? Not the biggest change in the world I didn't expect it to be, but it is better to be sure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Prog/nut/nut-2.2.1/clients]: diff upsmon.c upsmon.c.orig 125c125 wf = popen(wall -a, w); --- wf =

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Solaris/NUT 'wall' behaviour

2008-02-13 Thread Arjen de Korte
Anyway, I've modified upsmon to call wall -a instead of wall and it now does what I want. Do you (or anyone else running Solaris) know if this behavior changed in Solaris 10? I've traced back the man page for the 'wall' command back to Solaris 2.4 (the oldest I could find online [1994]).

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Building NUT 2.2.1 under Solaris 10 (SPARC)

2008-02-10 Thread Arjen de Korte
Charles Lepple wrote: Actually, it's getting that from the same place as last time. Apparently the --without-snmp switch doesn't turn off Net-SNMP detection, it just controls which drivers are built. (And IMHO the Net-SNMP flags shouldn't be used in anything other than the NUT SNMP driver,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Cyberpower Drive in 2.2.0 Fedora 7

2008-02-08 Thread Arjen de Korte
Seann Clark wrote: I know others have seen this before, I just never saw any real resolution to it. I am not a programmer, or at the least a very bad one, so I don't think this is something I can do properly myself. I have a Cyberpower 1500 AVR rack mount that worked good, except for the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Some questions

2008-02-08 Thread Arjen de Korte
Usually drivers attempt to determine if a command is valid, before registering it. So, there is a big set of NUT commands, like shutdown.stayoff and others, and driver for specific device supports some subset of them and this subset i can see in 'upsmcd -l output' ? Yes. See

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Megatec serial UPS woes

2008-02-07 Thread Arjen de Korte
[...] I can now see what is in buffer and it looks like just a few leading characters might just be missing! So now I am at a loss of how to resolve this problem! This could be due to some data remaining in the buffers. The megatec driver doesn't flush the buffers, so if the UPS sends

Re: [Nut-upsuser] usbhid-ups looping and unresponsive after update

2008-02-06 Thread Arjen de Korte
After updating from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1, the following command seems to go into loop and becomes unresponsive except for a kill -9: /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -u root -DDD -a trippy Running the driver in debug mode has always prevented it from backgrounding, so nut-2.2.0 would also require a 'kill -9'

Re: [Nut-upsuser] USBDEVFS_CONTROL error ?

2008-01-27 Thread Arjen de Korte
Does the following error message have a specific meaning: usb 1-1: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups rqt 161 rq 1 len 2 ret -75 [...] Can't retrieve Report 49 (75): Value too large for defined data type The UPS is sending us here more data than we expect. The size of reports

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp lite SMART1000LCD

2008-01-27 Thread Arjen de Korte
Using subdriver: TrippLite HID 0.2 (experimental) Startup timer elapsed, continuing... === Is this an error ? Shouldn't the driver usbhid-ups be referenced here when my conf file is: That is the output of usbhid-ups (starting from the line

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6C100-UNV and -x wait

2008-01-19 Thread Arjen de Korte
[...] Is there an equivalent to -x wait when using the same UPS with the 'usbhid-ups' driver? I don't think this will be needed with the usbhid-ups. Why don't you just try this out? Pull the mains plug from the UPS (it will now run on batteries) and type # upsmon -c fsd This will force

Re: [Nut-upsuser] How to lower float charge voltage of an APC Smart UPS

2008-01-15 Thread Arjen de Korte
Please tell me if u have any method to increase the charging current of APC smart 1000/1400VA with and without external battery bank option. I am using externally 40 and 80 Amp lead acid batteries but charging time is too long. Please help me ASAP. You would have to ask APC for that. Since

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H375 not seen by nut 2.2.1

2008-01-13 Thread Arjen de Korte
Apologies for the number of emails; I just tried starting as user root and the error message changes but the outcome is the same: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers]# /sbin/upsdrvctl -u root -D start Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.0- Starting UPS: unial1200 exec:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Powerware UPS 3110 USB

2008-01-09 Thread Arjen de Korte
Is there something I am doing wrong right off the bat? If not, is there anything I can do to debug this, or help this UPS get supported? [...] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser You could search the mailinglist archives for instance, we've had quite some discussions

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Powerware UPS 3110 USB

2008-01-09 Thread Arjen de Korte
Is there any driver that does have any kind of support for my UPS over USB? In the archives I can't find anything else. As far as I know, no. It is reported to work with the 'genericups upstype=7' driver over the RS232 interface (contact closure). If you don't have serial ports available,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Need help with Unitek Alpha 1200sx.

2008-01-03 Thread Arjen de Korte
I also discovered that the log file is getting filled up with these errors: - Jan 2 22:38:19 www kernel: usb 1-2: usbfs: process 24538 (megatec_usb) did not claim interface 0 before use Jan 2 22:38:19 www kernel: usb 1-2: usbfs: process 24538 (megatec_usb) did not

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Need help with Unitek Alpha 1200sx.

2008-01-02 Thread Arjen de Korte
Joseph Borg wrote: The strange thing is that this fails really fast...it's as though it's not even trying to detect the ups No, it won't. You need to pass the '-u root' option, since the hotplug/udev rules are not setup for this VID:PID combination. Until then, you'll have to tell the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] mge pc 675 does not work with usb-hidups

2007-12-31 Thread Arjen de Korte
Le samedi 29 décembre 2007 01:10, John L. Korpi a écrit : I had the same problem with the 2.2.0 on Gentoo (kernel 2.2.23) until I turned this on and built a new kernel: CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS=y John [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22:43:19 /boot] cat config-2.6.22.13-0.3-default |grep

Re: [Nut-upsuser] mge pc 675 does not work with usb-hidups

2007-12-29 Thread Arjen de Korte
Thanks for your quick reply and sorry for my late reply because i could not access the concerned computer since then. To answer your question : $ rpm -q nut nut-2.2.0-20.2 That should be the most recent version. The system is up to date and there is still nothing new. Or is there any

Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] Plexus UPS 1000V - megatec_usb

2007-12-28 Thread Arjen de Korte
[snip] Either way, I'll know what's needed, if an option to interpret the OFF bit the other way around, or just ignore it. I've just commited a workaround for this in the development trunk. Just add ignoreoff to your ups.conf and it should do the trick. Still I think the 'megatec' driver

Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] Plexus UPS 1000V - megatec_usb

2007-12-28 Thread Arjen de Korte
Carlos Rodrigues wrote: Therefor, I propose to relax the interpretation of the status bits in the 'megatec' driver, to allow the interpretation of 'OL' and 'OB', even if we already think/know the output is switched off. No problem by me, but should I keep the OFF status together with

Re: [Nut-upsuser] ACL problem

2007-12-23 Thread Arjen de Korte
Is there a chance you can try this with the latest release (2.2.1), which has some patches suggested by RedHat to improve IPv6 support? The changes in nut-2.2.1 (and nut-2.2.0 also) are *very* loosy based on suggestions made by Dan Kopecek, who wasn't working for RedHat at the time he submitted

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS Battery internal resistance matters.

2007-12-14 Thread Arjen de Korte
[...] What suprised me was this table entry from APC ASTE-6YWRZE_R0_EN.pdf Smart-UPS 2200/3000 VA 100/120/230 VAC Tower User Manual Page 9 ] Function: Automatic Self-Test ] Factory Default:Every 14 days (336 hours) ] User Selectable Choices: Every 7 days (168 hours); ]

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery is low bug (again) w/ Belkin/USB UPS (2.x=bug, 2.0 works)

2007-12-11 Thread Arjen de Korte
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2007-September/003137.html http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2007-July/003014.html http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/2552 I still have this problem: $ dpkg -l | grep -i nut ii nut

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS Battery internal resistance matters.

2007-12-11 Thread Arjen de Korte
For any who don't know: Voltage is an insufficient indicator of { health, time to support load, of if batteries will even support the load at all } . Internal resistance is important to calculate, but imperils load while testing to calculate (***). Thanks for the reminder. I

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Battery is low bug (again) w/ Belkin/USB UPS (2.x=bug, 2.0 works)

2007-12-11 Thread Arjen de Korte
Is this available in unstable (the dev-version with the fix/if not what is the ETA and also the ETA for 2.2.1 in testing)? You can download a tarball (both for 'development' and 'testing') from http://buildbot.ghz.cc/public/nut/ The ETA for nut-2.2.1 (stable) is 'shortly', I really don't

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Driver: apcsmart, SMART-UPS 2200, battery.runtime status information?

2007-12-10 Thread Arjen de Korte
[...] What does the battery.runtime represent? It was my understanding that this was in minutes, but this cannot be the case. VARDESC battery.runtime Battery runtime (seconds). It is in seconds and without load, some devices report ridiculous long times here. Complain to APC if you don't

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Crash when I start driver

2007-12-06 Thread Arjen de Korte
Arjen de Korte wrote: That's great! It doesn't look like we have an active maintainer for this subdriver at the moment, so I'll commit a change to the development version of the 'tripplite-hid' driver later today. It probably is a bug in the UPS firmware that is quite specific to this model

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Crash when I start driver

2007-12-05 Thread Arjen de Korte
[...] When I run the command # ../bin/usbhid-ups -a igor -DD -u root it produces the long output which is attached below. Then the machine crashes. I think the UPS just turns off the power. The log file contains the line Dec 4 16:05:26 computer kernel: usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC smartups 1500 is broken with usbhid-ups

2007-12-01 Thread Arjen de Korte
I'm trying to setup a server controlling 8 ups, 6 APC Smartups 1500 and two 1000. Because of the number of ups, i connected them using usb cables. I'm using Debian Etch AMD64 and nut 2.2.0 from testing (already tried 2.0 from stable, but had problems reading the ups serials and all the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] BelkinUNV Serial Problems (Was CyberPower 1500AVRT won't load driver!)

2007-11-28 Thread Arjen de Korte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# belkinunv -u root - -a BelkinSer Network UPS Tools - Belkin 'Universal UPS' driver 0.06 (2.2.0-) debug level is '8' No response from UPS No response from UPS No response from UPS No response from UPS No response from UPS No response from UPS No response

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

2007-11-28 Thread Arjen de Korte
Here's what I got from powerpanel: ./powerpanel - -a cyberups Network UPS Tools - CyberPower text/binary protocol UPS driver 0.22 (2.2.0) Warning: This is an experimental driver. Some features may not function correctly. debug level is '8' Trying binary protocol... send: (2

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

2007-11-28 Thread Arjen de Korte
One thing to check is that if a UPS is equipped with both a serial and USB interface, you can usually only use one at a time. Many use share the same hardware for both interfaces, so when not in use, you should not plug in anything to these ports. Switching between these may require switching off

Re: [Nut-upsuser] BelkinUNV Serial Problems (Was CyberPower 1500AVRT won't load driver!)

2007-11-28 Thread Arjen de Korte
I guess you are right that we learned something from running the driver stand alone - but the debug level didn't seem to add as much verbosity as it did with other drivers. I have checked on your suggestions: Older drivers generally are less verbose than newer ones. Over time, we have found

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 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

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

2007-11-26 Thread Arjen de Korte
Richard Chapman wrote: I have changed the driver in my ups.conf to usbhid-ups, and based on other literature I have read - I set the port to auto, but at startup i get the error: Starting UPS driver controller: Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.2.0-)

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

2007-11-26 Thread Arjen de Korte
Richard Chapman wrote: Also for Tomas Smetana of the epel repository I think we are getting somewhere - but not quite to the final goal... If I run: /sbin/usbhid-ups -u root -D -a BelkinUps as suggested it all works fine - and finds the UPS on the USB port. It still does so if I

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

2007-11-26 Thread Arjen de Korte
Tomáš Smetana wrote: The drivers are supposed to run under user nut group uucp. Your problem seems to be somewhere in the udev rules provided with the rpm package -- they should change the ownership and permissions of the appropriate USB devices. Euhm, the settings in these files depend on

Re: [Nut-upsuser] trouble with Cyber Power System CPS RS232 USB BRIDGE for UPS

2007-11-26 Thread Arjen de Korte
Could you post the output of 'upsc upsname' here? We're working on extending the support for the powerpanel driver, but in order to do that, we need some information on what is reported by devices that are supported already. Thanks in advance. powerpanel driver:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Mustek Powermust 600VA

2007-11-24 Thread Arjen de Korte
After following your advice, I got this: Please state exactly how you started this driver (startup command line and contents of 'ups.conf' so that people that find this thread, can easily duplicate what you did. Serial-over-USB transport layer for Megatec protocol driver [megatec_usb]

[Nut-upsuser] [Fwd: Re: [Nut-packaging] Nut-packaging post from [EMAIL PROTECTED] requires approval]

2007-11-24 Thread Arjen de Korte
First, I have taken this discussion from the 'nut-packaging' mailing list to 'nut-upsuser'. Please don't reply in 'nut-packaging', since this is off-topic there (sorry for the duplicate, this should be the correct mailing list address). The model of UPS I have is included in the supported models

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Mustek Powermust 600VA

2007-11-21 Thread Arjen de Korte
I'm having a hard time configuring a Mustek Powermust 600VA ups to work via USB with nut. I read somewhere that nut works OK via the rs232 cable, but unfortunately I don't have a COM port in my computer. The kernel detects the ups as an Xbox pad :) and loads the xpad module. I tried

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Mustek Powermust 600VA

2007-11-21 Thread Arjen de Korte
I was able to use megatec_usb with a Powermust 1000VA USB with the hal driver activated (hald-addon-megatec_usb). If you are lucky, megatec_usb will be able to recognize your ups if you force the agiler subdriver in your ups.conf. Here is my config: sys-power/nut-2.2.0 with both hal and

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Mustek Powermust 600VA

2007-11-21 Thread Arjen de Korte
Krzysztof Sasiak wrote: I modified your config accordingly and now I get the following message: Serial-over-USB transport layer for Megatec protocol driver [megatec_usb] debug level is '3' Checking device (06DA/0003) (002/002) - VendorID: 06da - ProductID: 0003 - Manufacturer: unknown

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Mustek Powermust 600VA

2007-11-21 Thread Arjen de Korte
Jimmy Jazz wrote: I will follow your advice but i'm not sure the maintainer would agree. That feature is deactivated in the package itself :) That's OK. If NUT is compiled without HAL support, that's fine too. To get out of trouble, how do i prevent hal to exclusively and automatically

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS shutdown - always the thing to do?

2007-11-20 Thread Arjen de Korte
The best answer we can offer here, is to just try it out on your specific kind of hardware. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Of course. The shortcoming being that running the UPS down that far would take a few hours - at which point I start thinking asking around might be more

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Incorrect 'low battery' detected with Back-UPS XS 1200 (usbhid-ups)

2007-11-18 Thread Arjen de Korte
You trimmed off the initial (and most interesting) part of the startup of this driver. Don't do that, unless we ask you to do so. Okay.. Here is the output. I saved it to a file for better readability. That is a lot more informative, thanks.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Incorrect 'low battery' detected with Back-UPS XS 1200 (usbhid-ups)

2007-11-18 Thread Arjen de Korte
That is a lot more informative, thanks. http://www.uno-code.com/files/nut.output.txt Ouch, this really sucks! It looks like the feature reports for this UPS are completely bogus and that we should only use the reports we get on the interrupt pipeline for this unit (which seem to be

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Incorrect 'low battery' detected with Back-UPS XS 1200 (usbhid-ups)

2007-11-17 Thread Arjen de Korte
hanji wrote: Thanks for replying to my email. I updated to 2.2.0, and I'm running into the same problem, but also encountered other issues. After upgrading to 2.2.0 and using the usbhid-ups driver, I was not able to get a clean restart of upsd. /etc/init.d/upsd restart * Stopping upsd

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Incorrect 'low battery' detected with Back-UPS XS 1200 (usbhid-ups)

2007-11-17 Thread Arjen de Korte
hanji wrote: Strange. Looks like my init script already does this: start() { ebegin Starting upsd # clean up first pkill -u root -x upsd sleep 1s rm -f ${pidfile} # now start up start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec

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

2007-11-09 Thread Arjen de Korte
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? This is done through the initialization of the bcmxcp

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

2007-11-09 Thread Arjen de Korte
I have a PW9120 hooked up via a serial cable running NUT 2.0.4. When running upsc I cant see any parameter that looks like it would trigger a shutdown. Theres is nothing like battery.charge.low: 30 or battery.charge.warning: 30. The UPS may not support reporting and/or changing this value.

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

2007-11-09 Thread Arjen de Korte
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 depends on the UPS. So, for testing I

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

2007-11-08 Thread Arjen de Korte
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-) Warning: This is an experimental driver. Some features may not function correctly. Model =

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

2007-11-08 Thread Arjen de Korte
Have you tried the serial connection? No, there is no serial port on my machine. If you have one, a serial-to-USB converter is a cheap solution to add one. Many (not all) are supported by recent kernels. 1) Apparently, this UPS needs to be told only to reply to specific requests and not send

Re: [Nut-upsuser] BNT-1000AP

2007-11-07 Thread Arjen de Korte
Well, I can tell you that the frequency should in fact be close to 50Hz (well, in theory it should be exactly, but we don't live in a perfect world). One way to get at least the nominal value correct, is by averaging the measured frequency (one reading every minute) over several days. That

Re: [Nut-upsuser] BNT-1000AP

2007-11-06 Thread Arjen de Korte
Hi guys, We've got a BNT-1000AP (powercom) BlackKnight UPS that works with the KIN1500AP model in the powercom driver. Well, almost. It seems the input frequency and the battery charge is swapped around: # upsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] battery.charge: 46.5 driver.name: powercom

Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] Nitram driver and timeout

2007-11-05 Thread Arjen de Korte
Aurélien Croc wrote: You're not providing a lot of information to work with. If you're not using the latest stable version (nut-2.2.0) and the 'nitram' driver, change that first. If you're already using these, we want to know more about the system you're using and preferably some debug

Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] Nitram driver and timeout

2007-11-04 Thread Arjen de Korte
Aurélien Croc wrote: I recently bought a Nitram Elite 2005 UPS and i installed nut to monitor it. This question isn't related to development, so I'll answer this in the nut-user mailing list. Unfortunatly, i often have timeout errors (20 timeout per days): Broadcast Message from [EMAIL

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse 800 shutdown problems

2007-11-01 Thread Arjen de Korte
The 'ondelay' timer will be started at the same time as the 'offdelay' timer and is really only meant to provide a means to prevent a deadlock when the power returns before the UPS shuts down. The better solution is documented in 'docs/shutdown.txt' which you have been told to read on several

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse 800 shutdown problems

2007-10-31 Thread Arjen de Korte
Using ondelay = 30 in ups.conf I have managed to wait more time after the line power is back - other question why this so unreliable:( I have measured time at 16 min upto 32 min (ondelay = 30 should give 30x10sec = 5 min) - but I do not care it is not so important for me. This is not what

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse 800 shutdown problems

2007-10-31 Thread Arjen de Korte
This is not what 'ondelay' is meant to do. Please checkout 'man 8 mge-shut' for a description of what the function of this is. May I missing some thing? I read this carefully: http://web.iesrodeira.com/cgi-bin/man/man2html?mge-shut+8 The 'ondelay' timer will be started at the same time as

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Outlet switching on the MGE Pulsar 1500 using usbhid-ups on FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Arjen de Korte
[...] I managed to set the low battery level OK though (and then shut my PC down by mistake :) so I can actually set values.. Is it just that usbhid-ups doesn't support outlet switching? (yet hopefully :) Outlet switching is supported, only you need to use 'upscmd' for that (see the man

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse 800 shutdown problems

2007-10-26 Thread Arjen de Korte
Usuallly I'm using for this kind of controll strongly ASCII coding, at least intel hexa (simple memory dump), but when so small amount of information in could be more readable, not only for beauty but debugging purposes. In this case you can use a simple terminal application

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse 800 shutdown problems

2007-10-26 Thread Arjen de Korte
Rózsa Gábor wrote: Its became more difficult! #upsdrvctl shutdown myups- does not work for me!? #upsrw -s ups.delay.shutdown=5 -u monmaster -p blah myups- working well, ups switch off after 5 sec of the command:) #upsdrv -s ups.delay.start=5 -u monmaster -öp blah myups -

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar Ellipse 800 off early or box shutdown late

2007-10-24 Thread Arjen de Korte
1) Does the shutdown sequence take too long? Is it about 15 - 20 seconds (from usual system message about shutdown). That's not an inordinate long time, so this should not be a problem. 2) How old are the batteries? Could it be they are already worn out (you can expect this after 3-5 years

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse 800 shutdown problems - using upsmon NOTIFYCMD

2007-10-24 Thread Arjen de Korte
tovis wrote: upsmon.conf using NOTIFCMD and NOTIFYFLG is working well, it is calling my script notify on requested events (ONBATTERY,LOWBATTERY and ONLINE). Command #upsmon -c fsd -u monmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] gracefully shutdown my box and after several seconds switch off the ups's

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar Ellipse 800 off early or box shutdown late

2007-10-23 Thread Arjen de Korte
tovis wrote: For now I think that my box does not recognize signal about low battery - I'm only started to read SHUT protocoll of MGE, and do not understand that is this signal a result of some kind of status request from my box to UPS or UPS send this signal unsolicited - I supose the last

Re: [Nut-upsuser] problems with nut - openSUSE 10.3

2007-10-20 Thread Arjen de Korte
Arjen de Korte wrote: what am i doing wrong, and why the hell does /etc/init.d/upsd change the permissions on /dev/ttyS3 wrong? What are those permissions and why are they wrong? What did you do to make it work? This script is not part of NUT. Please file a bugreport with openSUSE

Re: [Nut-upsuser] usbhid-ups on openSUSE 10.3 does not see MGE Ellipse 1500

2007-10-18 Thread Arjen de Korte
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I replugged the UPS, but still got the same result. I tried rebooting the system, but still got No matching HID UPS found Can you start the driver in debug mode? /usr/lib/ups/driver/usbhid-ups -D -a myups Best regards, Arjen -- Eindhoven -

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin w/ Cypress Semi. interface probs

2007-10-18 Thread Arjen de Korte
Jeffrey B. Green wrote: Thanks much. I thought that I'd tried that driver w/o success. Probably had something wrong in the config file. So step 1 is done. everyone seems to be talking w/ one another now. It looks like we need to update the drivers.list once again. Apparently, Belkin has

Re: [Nut-upsuser] usbhid-ups on openSUSE 10.3 does not see MGE Ellipse 1500

2007-10-17 Thread Arjen de Korte
Dear List, The driver usbhid-ups does not detect my MGE Ellipse 1500. I'm running openSuSE Linux 10.3, kernel 2.6.22 with mgeups-psp-3.0.4-2, nut-2.2.0-20 installed from MGE's rpm's. (Merci MGE!) lsusb shows: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0463: MGE UPS Systems UPS /etc/ups/ups.conf says:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] usbhid-ups on openSUSE 10.3 does not see MGE Ellipse 1500

2007-10-17 Thread Arjen de Korte
This is a known problem with the new kernel in openSUSE 10.3: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331749 Unfortunately, this is apparently not very high on the list of priorities. So for now, I suggest to apply the changes by hand. :-( I applied the change, and the head of file

Re: [Nut-upsuser] trouble with ups mge evolution2200 and mandriva 2007 - nut 2.01

2007-10-16 Thread Arjen de Korte
hello, at first I'm sorry my english isn't perfect but I tried to be clear I work with mandriva 2007 and with nut 2.0.1 installed with urpmi my UPS is a MGE Evolution 2200 connected with RS232 First of all, upgrade to nut-2.2.0. The version you have now is well past its 'use by' date. in

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Mustek

2007-10-15 Thread Arjen de Korte
Being supported (serial) means full support? That is, I can connect to the UPS, read all values and do a shutdown in case of low battery? If Mustek has not changed the internals of this device since the last report we got, yes. Best regards, Arjen

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT and unsupported UPS brands

2007-10-15 Thread Arjen de Korte
some months ago I bought an SBS GC400 UPS. I came with a kit RS232 + UPSmart CDROM that works only with RedHat 7.0-7.3. As I use Debian I tried alien with no success. Can you please provide me with any hint to understand if my UPS can be managed by NUT? Can a driver be

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse USB cable config ?

2007-10-13 Thread Arjen de Korte
Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: This is not directly NUT related, but i don't know where else I can still ask this. I have been using a pretty decent 2nd hand MGE ellipse premium 1200VA for a while now at home. http://www.mgeups.com/download/doc_intl/ small/premium/389uk.pdf It's been working

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC Back-UPS ES 550 reports zero(0) load

2007-10-12 Thread Arjen de Korte
Any help or guidance would be appreciated. If I need to patch the source to add support for the ES 550, I can do that, with a little guidance. There is nothing we can do about this. According to the output you attached (which is great, thanks), the UPS is reporting this. Path:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Silence Beeper = Which small UPS's actually support it?

2007-10-11 Thread Arjen de Korte
I'm looking for a UPS that the beeper can be silenced with nut via ups.beeper.status variable for a HTPC close to bedrooms. You should not be looking for the 'ups.beeper.status' variable, this is supposed to be read-only (although it not always is, for all drivers). Instead, you want to lookup

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Working UPS report: Geek Squad GS-700U (Cyberpower clone?)

2007-10-10 Thread Arjen de Korte
As for trying the usbhid-ups driver, I am for sure trying to run it as root but still having problem, this is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/ups/bin# ./usbhid-ups -u root -D -D -D -D -a chuma_ups Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.2.0-) debug

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Working UPS report: Geek Squad GS-700U (Cyberpower clone?)

2007-10-10 Thread Arjen de Korte
Charles Lepple wrote: The above two lines should also be displayed by usbhid-ups in the 'Manufacturer' and 'Product' strings upon startup with the -DD option. As long as that's not happening, it can't attach to the port because of a permissions problem and/or another driver being attached to

Re: [Nut-upsuser] upsmon lost states?

2007-10-05 Thread Arjen de Korte
i use nut with mge comet ex 7 rt (mge-shut driver). The mge-shut driver is no longer being actively maintained and has been replaced by the newmge-shut driver. If you're using nut-2.2.0 or newer, please make the switch. Is ist possible, that upsmon loses states? I obtain onbatt and online

Re: [Nut-upsuser] mge galaxy 6000 three-phase supported or not?

2007-09-25 Thread Arjen de Korte
i just wonder, if it is posible to read the values for all the three phases of a mge galaxy 6000 ups? From looking at the mgemib part of the snmp-ups it doesn't read the data of all 3 phases (yet). Though this should be fairly easy to add. I have added this in my local copy for the MGE MIB,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Can't get 'load.off' to turn off power to the PC: CyberPower 1200AVR

2007-09-21 Thread Arjen de Korte
I just tried using the upsmon -c fsd while running the development NUT package. It caused the package to send the 'shutdown' command to the PC, which caused the PC to shutdown (gracefully), but the UPS never killed the power to the PC. Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought the sequence of

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Poweraware 5115, ttyS0, Ubuntu 6.06.1

2007-09-21 Thread Arjen de Korte
Hi all, I know there are some howto's about Powerware 5115 and Ubuntu, but I can't still get that thing working. Can someone give some light... 1. Powerware 5115, serial port (ttyS0) 2. Ubuntu 6.06.1 as LTSP-server As reference: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NUT

Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS shows 120%

2007-09-21 Thread Arjen de Korte
I just got NUT 2.0.1 running on my Debian system at home. No, you have nut-2.0.4 running according to upsc. :-) The newhidups driver in nut-2.0.1 only supported MGE devices. I have a new CPS UPS connected via USB. Everything is working fine, except the UPS is showing a value of 120%

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Can't get 'load.off' to turn off power to the PC: CyberPower 1200AVR

2007-09-18 Thread Arjen de Korte
Go for the development version. That has a much improved usbhid-ups driver, which also allows for better debugging. I went looking for the Development version, and I'm afraid I'm a little confused. On the NUT site, it says the latest development version is 2.1, but the release I'm running is

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Can't get 'load.off' to turn off power to the PC: CyberPower 1200AVR

2007-09-18 Thread Arjen de Korte
Mark E. Hansen wrote: Thanks for the help in getting the current development sources (to Charles Lepple as well). I've downloaded and configured/installed nut-2.3.0-r1114. However, I don't see any difference in how the setting of some variables appears to be ignored. In that case, chances

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Can't get 'load.off' to turn off power to the PC: CyberPower 1200AVR

2007-09-18 Thread Arjen de Korte
Mark E. Hansen wrote: I assume you have read and understood the reasons in the FAQ why we generally recommend against doing that. I've read the FAQ and I'm sure I found the entires to which you refer. However, what those entries don't consider is the primary problem with waiting until the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Can't get 'load.off' to turn off power to the PC: CyberPower 1200AVR

2007-09-17 Thread Arjen de Korte
Mark Hansen wrote: I'm running Network UPS Tools 2.2.0 on a Linux machine, running CentOS 4.5 (RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.5), with a kernel version 2.6.9. I believe I have the software setup and configured properly. I can access the UPS via the upsc (client) tool, upscmd, upsmon, etc. Even

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Can't get 'load.off' to turn off power to the PC: CyberPower 1200AVR

2007-09-17 Thread Arjen de Korte
Instant commands supported on UPS [myupsname]: load.off - Turn off the load immediately load.on - Turn on the load immediately shutdown.stop - Stop a shutdown in progress beeper.on - Enable the UPS beeper beeper.off - Temporarily mute the UPS beeper Can anyone please tell me what I'm

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Can't get 'load.off' to turn off power to the PC: CyberPower 1200AVR

2007-09-17 Thread Arjen de Korte
Mark E. Hansen wrote: Apparently, the granualarity on you UPS is 1 minute and it will report the final time as -60 seconds. This is odd and violates the HID Power Devices specification. Having said that, it will probably also violate this with regard to the fact that a zero delay is a valid

Re: [Nut-upsuser] mge-shut and hardware error on MGE Pulsar Evolution 800

2007-09-12 Thread Arjen de Korte
That of course, is also a possibility. In which case, there is probably nothing we can *ever* do about this. If everything looks normal before the tests, but the UPS fails during the test, we're toast. There can be a number of failures for this, not limited to the battery alone (a relay

Re: [Nut-upsuser] mge-shut and hardware error on MGE Pulsar Evolution 800

2007-09-11 Thread Arjen de Korte
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 09:12:36PM +0200, Arjen de Korte wrote: My MGE Pulsar Evolution 800 had some hardware troubles (it may be the batteries according to the manual). The fault was not detected so the power was cut to the load and nothing appears in the log files. Please

Re: [Nut-upsuser] mge-shut and hardware error on MGE Pulsar Evolution 800

2007-09-11 Thread Arjen de Korte
I would have liked to fine something in my log files. I know the problem occured between 14:15 and 14:29 but not much :( I guess it was a power outage and the battery failed the moment it really had to provide power. Regarding the age of the battery, this is quite a likely failure mode. I

Re: [Nut-upsuser] mge-shut and hardware error on MGE Pulsar Evolution 800

2007-09-10 Thread Arjen de Korte
My MGE Pulsar Evolution 800 had some hardware troubles (it may be the batteries according to the manual). The fault was not detected so the power was cut to the load and nothing appears in the log files. Please be as specific as possible to describing what kind of problem you had. Which

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Bug#435000: nut 2.0.5-3+b1 reports low battery, previous versions do not

2007-09-08 Thread Arjen de Korte
Justin Piszcz wrote: I've not had time (nor will have) to digg all the thread on the nut ml, so can you update me about the status of the below one please. Yeah basically any version newer than 2.0.4 says the battery is low (which is incorrect) so for now I set it to hold at that version,

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