[please keep the list CC'd. nut-upsuser is the best place for this
thread.]
On Jun 25, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Lechanski wrote:
1. the specifications of my ups: F6C750-AVR; it has 750VA, more
than enough to power my system, which is all that is on the ups.
What are the USB Vendor ID and Product ID?
You may need to open a shell for that. I haven't used Solaris USB
support, so I'm not sure what commands to use.
2. the first picture you'll see is when I unplug and plug in my ups
via USB into the same USB port of the NAS.
3. the second picture is going to the UPS feature on Freenas
0.7.2.5543. I have the OS running from a thumb drive and I have two
sets of drives you'll see in the pic, one a raid 5 configuration
(hard wired raid with addonics raid card) and the other is just a
free floating HDD, no back-up.
4. the next pictures you'll see is what happens when I try
different configurations on the gui. The first pair (pic 3 & 4) are
the config and what it says on my nas. When I enter this
configuration, the nas beeps once and the screen says the first
thing you see "Broadcast Message..." then after about 5 seconds,
another beep and the second line "UPS ups@localhost is unavailable"
Any log entries in syslog?
5. picture 5 is what happens when I change my configuration, still
same error, and same reaction by nas box.
6. the final picture is what happens when I implement a solution
that I found on-line. the gui software says success and my nas box
has no change (in other words, nothing happens on my screen when I
implement this configuration, no beeping, no nothing). I then try
to simulate a power outage by yanking the plug on the ups; the ups
is on battery and the nas keeps going as if nothing is wrong.
The genericups driver cannot do error checking:
http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/genericups.html
With a USB cable, you would only use genericups if you were sure that
the UPS is a basic contact-closure model with a USB-to-serial adapter
supported by the OS.
I hope this clarifies things, no matter what configuration I use, I
either get the error messages on the gui and the nas beeps twice
with the above mentioned quotations or I get the one success in #6
but it won't work.
My overall impression is that the freenas UPS support needs more
diagnostic information.
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