On May 26, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote:

> /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -DDDD -a upsA -x vendorid=06da -x productid=0002

Try the nutdrv_qx driver? It should work without specifying the 
vendorid/productid.

(I can see where the Liebert USB VID might lead you to try usbhid-ups, but the 
stronger link is that the serial Phoenixtec protocol is usually stuffed into a 
HID-based USB-to-serial converter, which usbhid-ups doesn't support. And 
USB-to-serial-via-HID is a total abuse of the HID protocol, et cetera, but 
that's a rant for another day.)

I'm probably not the best person to comment on the second half of your 
question, at least as far as recommendations on splitting the load between the 
UPSes. I will say that I am wary of APC now that they have introduced their 
proprietary Microlink protocol, and have apparently stripped down the HID PDC 
support on the legacy comms card.

We should probably add this warning to the usbhid-ups man page as well:

http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/apcsmart.html#_supported_hardware

It's not just NUT - this affects Apcupsd:

http://forums.apc.com/thread/5374

Until recently, I would have recommended MGE/Eaton. They haven't made the same 
design mistakes as APC, but we can no longer expect the same amount of 
information and support that we had before.

Tripp Lite has tested many of their USB HID UPSes against NUT, and posted the 
results to the list last fall:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/8173

I haven't personally tried their recent hardware, but at the moment, this seems 
like the most promising avenue for vendor support.

-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple@gmail




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