Lonnie,
Thanks for the refresher on apcupsd. That's exactly what I did - and
that part seems to be working just fine. I also appreciate the reminder
on where the web configuration files are located. For the life of me, I
couldn't find 'em.
It looks like corruption in /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/network.conf was
responsible for this symptom. Specifically, HTTPSDIR and HTTPSCERT were
both set to "" (nothing). After setting these to the correct values
("/stat/var/www" and "/mnt/kd/ssl/webinterface.pem" respectively) and
rebooting, the web interface came right back up and is working perfectly.
As to what caused the corruption... I don't know. But this may be a
reminder that the flash drive is overdue for replacement.
Thanks again.
Take care,
Dan
On 6/3/2013 2:16 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I don't see a related reason why the web interface is not responding. If you
> have ssh or console access, a "ps" and "ss -an" should show if lighttpd and
> ports 80 and 443 are LISTEN'ed on. Of course if any of your
> /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/ files got corrupted, then that could explain things.
>
> A refresher on "APC UPS Monitoring & Shutdown"
>
> The apcupsd daemon is started if:
>
> 1) UPSTYPE and UPSCABLE rc.conf variables are defined.
> 2) The file /mnt/kd/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf exists.
>
> Both methods are supported via the Network tab in the web interface.
>
> In general #1 is all that is needed, which sets "NETSERVER on" and "NISIP
> 127.0.0.1" which allows the command line tool "apcaccess status" to access
> stats locally, which the Status tab uses.
>
> If, you want the AstLinux box to act as a server to other apcupsd clients,
> then do the following:
>
> $ mkdir /mnt/kd/apcupsd
> $ cp /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf /mnt/kd/apcupsd/
>
> Edit "/mnt/kd/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf" line from "NISIP 127.0.0.1" to "NISIP
> 0.0.0.0" .
> Note this can be done via the web interface as soon as
> "/mnt/kd/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf" created.
>
> $ service apcupsd stop
> $ service apcupsd init
> --or-- "Restart UPS Daemon" via the web interface
>
> BTW: If memory serves me, there may be some other settings (timeouts or such)
> that may want to be tweaked if acting as a server, which is why we require
> the use of "/mnt/kd/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf" when acting as a server rather than
> simply creating another rc.conf variable for the NISIP option.
>
> Dan, if you think your HTTPS values got corrupted, a quick check with the
> following should help.
>
> $ grep '^HTTPS' /etc/rc.conf
>
> $ grep '^HTTPS' /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/*.conf
>
> Lonnie
>
>
>
> On Jun 3, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Dan Ryson wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I'm suddenly unable to access the AstLinux web interface. Instead, I get a
>> rather unfriendly "403 - Forbidden" response. Any thoughts on how to best
>> rescue this wayward machine would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Perhaps yesterday's sequence of events (noted below) had something to do
>> with this. I'll provide them to be complete:
>> • Commercial Power Failure about 4:17 PM
>> • After operating on UPS five minutes, a power-hungry CentOS server was
>> manually shut down. This remarkably extended battery run-time.
>> • About 5:20 PM, power was restored to the UPS and thus the PBX by a
>> portable generator.
>> • About 7:00 PM, commercial power was restored.
>> • Realizing the need for the power-hungry CentOS server to
>> automatically shut down next time, I installed and configured apcupsd on
>> that machine to connect to the AstLinux PBX via the LAN. However, it failed
>> to connect.
>> • Troubleshooting revealed that the apcupsd program on AstLinux was
>> running with NISIP=127.0.0.1. According to the documentation, this only
>> permits connections only via localhost.
>> • In checking the web interface, I found that the UPS Type and Cable
>> settings were both showing "disabled." However, testing using apcupsd
>> command line tools indicated that apcupsd was running. Likewise, settings
>> previously entered under Safe Asterisk & SIP Monitoring were disabled and
>> all entries were blank.
>> • Since the web interface doesn't permit tweaks to the NISIP parameter,
>> a manual apcupsd.conf file was created and saved it in a newly created
>> /mnt/kd/apcupsd/ folder.
>> • Upon a reboot, I was greeted with the 403 error.
>> I suspect that in addition to the apcupsd settings, other items on the
>> network page also vanished, including the HTTPS Server Options. Is this
>> something I can access and update via SSH?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
>>
>> Dan
>>
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