Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 11 August 2007, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Bus 004 Device 015: ID 050d:0980 Belkin Components [F6C800-UNV Belkin
UPS]
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
Of course it'd be nice if your UPS monitoring software just found it by
itself, or presented you with a list of candidates.
It does not seem to do so, it being "nut," although I may have missed
something?
I initially tried the Belkin provided Linux software which looks as
though it might be ok, it produces some pretty screens but it wont
accept the password I was asked to enter and verify. As a result I
can't begin to configure it.
I will continue the effort later, just had my morning coffee ...
Thanks.
Bob Goodwin
And when you do get it configured, it will turn into a cpu hog, virtually
killing the system if either gkrellm or its own gui ever query it.
I've tried to email them about it, but their replies always very carefully
talk about other things. After 4 passes at making them understand that a
module compiled on a red hat 5.1 system was not about to work on a modern
system and being totally ignored, I asked the 5th time if I was trying to
teach pigs to sing, and switched to apcupsd. I can at least query the status
like this:
[root@coyote Dailys]# service apcupsd status
apcupsd (pid 4806) is running...
APC : 001,024,0603
DATE : Sat Aug 11 04:58:07 EDT 2007
HOSTNAME : coyote.coyote.den
RELEASE : 3.12.4
VERSION : 3.12.4 (19 August 2006) redhat
UPSNAME : coyote.coyote.den
CABLE : USB Cable
MODEL : Belkin UPS
UPSMODE : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: Fri Aug 10 16:26:49 EDT 2007
STATUS : ONLINE
BCHARGE : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT : 2.0 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 5 Percent
MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes
MAXTIME : 0 Seconds
NUMXFERS : 0
TONBATT : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
XOFFBATT : N/A
STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag
SERIALNO :
NOMBATTV : 120.0
APCMODEL : Belkin UPS
END APC : Sat Aug 11 04:58:46 EDT 2007
I haven't had any power failures since, so I've NDI how it will react in that
case. The original belkin sw would in fact issue a -wall broadcast and shut
things down gracefully, when it worked...
As far as configuration, apcupsd finds /dev/hiddev0 all by itself. If you
have more than /dev/hiddevX, then it might need some guidance.
Gene:
That's one piece to my puzzle!
ll /dev/hid*
crw------- 1 root root 180, 96 2007-08-11 03:46 /dev/hiddev0
So the device would appear to be /dev/hiddev0.
I'll try that in the "nut" config file. And I will look for apcupsd.
I am in a rural area among cotton and soy bean fields and rely on
several UPS's.
Just yesterday afternoon the power was dropping momentarily with
lightning but this computer, using a different UPS, kept plugging along
oblivious to it.
I seem to collect old supplies, all except one so far have responded to
the replacement of batteries, this last one required two 12 volt, 7.5
a/h series connected gel-cells which seem to be common to most I've
acquired and can be had for about $7 each plus shipping.
Thanks.
Bob Goodwin
