Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas
On Jul 2, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Bobby Kent wrote: Not sure an upgrade will help you much though, as Charles said: Also, the USB support in FreeBSD prior to 8.0 is not very usable from the NUT perspective. No guarantees it will get better if you upgrade, but I had a lot of problems trying to get tripplite_usb to work under FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x. I wasn't terribly clear here - the architecture for the USB stack in FreeBSD 8.0 is a big improvement over prior versions, but that may not be sufficient to make John's UPS work. Also, FreeNAS 8.0 is based off of FreeBSD 8.1: http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2010/11/freenas-8-beta-released.html FreeNAS 8 seems to require more capable hardware than FreeNAS 7: http://www.freenas.org/category/version-comparison ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas
John, For giggles I downloaded the iso and installed FreeNAS 8.0 into a virtual machine, usbconfig is present: %/usr/sbin/usbconfig -d ugen1.2 dump_device_desc ugen1.2: RALLY2 OCZ Technology at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON bLength = 0x0012 bDescriptorType = 0x0001 bcdUSB = 0x0200 bDeviceClass = 0x bDeviceSubClass = 0x bDeviceProtocol = 0x bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040 idVendor = 0x0325 idProduct = 0xac02 bcdDevice = 0x1100 iManufacturer = 0x0001 OCZ Technology iProduct = 0x0002 RALLY2 iSerialNumber = 0x no string bNumConfigurations = 0x0001 % Note both Vendor and Product ID are reported. Not sure how pwd will show the user one is logged in as, whoami is in FreeNAS 8.0 and appears to behave in a similar fashion to other Unix/Linux type OSs: %whoami Root % I don't know my way around FreeNAS so can't help you with setting up a new thumb drive with version 8, I did notice that the *.Full_Install.xv files (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8/) are compressed boot images that look like they ought to be able to be dded (or whatever the FreeNAS equivalent is) to a drive. Not sure an upgrade will help you much though, as Charles said: Also, the USB support in FreeBSD prior to 8.0 is not very usable from the NUT perspective. No guarantees it will get better if you upgrade, but I had a lot of problems trying to get tripplite_usb to work under FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x. From: John Lechanski [mailto:johnsk...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 20:08 To: clep...@gmail.com Cc: bpk...@wholeworldwindow.net; nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: RE: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas Gents, Sorry for the .jpg taking up so much space. I will not do that again. I ran usbconfig as root and it came back usbconfig: command not found I ran pwd and I am root, tried lsusb for giggles and it didn't work either. I thought about upgrading to Freenas 8.0 but I am used to the embedded version that I installed on a datastick...I didn't see a .img for 8.0 and was wondering how you installed it. Thanks again for your help. John ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas
Gents, Sorry for the .jpg taking up so much space. I will not do that again. I ran usbconfig as root and it came back usbconfig: command not found I ran pwd and I am root, tried lsusb for giggles and it didn't work either. I thought about upgrading to Freenas 8.0 but I am used to the embedded version that I installed on a datastick...I didn't see a .img for 8.0 and was wondering how you installed it. Thanks again for your help. John Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:06:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas From: clep...@gmail.com To: johnsk...@hotmail.com CC: bpk...@wholeworldwindow.net; nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Bobby Kent bpk...@wholeworldwindow.net wrote: Hi John, You should use the Linux command lsusb to find the USB Vendor and Product Id, e.g.: I misspoke - apparently freenas is based on FreeBSD (who would have guessed from the name?!?) and I thought it was opensolaris based on the fragment of the ZFS copyright in the screenshot. I would agree with Bobby about the attachments, with the additional suggestion that if it's just textual information, please don't send it only as a graphic - it makes it harder for other people to search for information about that model. I went into the gui and printed the syslog...I'm not sure how to read it and I've included a picture of the bottom of my UPS...I'm unsure about a USB vendor ID but I have the manual which I attached. Unfortunately, there is not much information about the UPS in syslog: Jun 27 12:01:33 frogger17a kernel: uhid0: Belkin UPS, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 on uhub0 What do you get when you run 'usbconfig' as root? Also, the USB support in FreeBSD prior to 8.0 is not very usable from the NUT perspective. No guarantees it will get better if you upgrade, but I had a lot of problems trying to get tripplite_usb to work under FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x. -- - Charles Lepple ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Bobby Kent bpk...@wholeworldwindow.net wrote: I’m not sure whether this is duplicate information, my mailbox was filled by the attachments to your previous email. Might be an idea to reduce the resolution a little before sending (see attached), or using a service like photobucket and provide a link … Likewise, configuring your mailer not to send HTML is a good way to save mailbox space, too :-) -- - Charles Lepple ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Bobby Kent bpk...@wholeworldwindow.net wrote: Hi John, You should use the Linux command lsusb to find the USB Vendor and Product Id, e.g.: I misspoke - apparently freenas is based on FreeBSD (who would have guessed from the name?!?) and I thought it was opensolaris based on the fragment of the ZFS copyright in the screenshot. I would agree with Bobby about the attachments, with the additional suggestion that if it's just textual information, please don't send it only as a graphic - it makes it harder for other people to search for information about that model. I went into the gui and printed the syslog...I'm not sure how to read it and I've included a picture of the bottom of my UPS...I'm unsure about a USB vendor ID but I have the manual which I attached. Unfortunately, there is not much information about the UPS in syslog: Jun 27 12:01:33 frogger17a kernel: uhid0: Belkin UPS, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 on uhub0 What do you get when you run 'usbconfig' as root? Also, the USB support in FreeBSD prior to 8.0 is not very usable from the NUT perspective. No guarantees it will get better if you upgrade, but I had a lot of problems trying to get tripplite_usb to work under FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x. -- - Charles Lepple ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas
[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. ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
