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 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.
That was good advice, I installed apcupsd and it immediately began to
work. Controlling the UPS is not something I want to spend a few days
on so I'm quite happy with the result so far. The configuration still
needs some tweaking, I tried pulling the ac plug from the wall and it
immediately initiated a shutdown which is not what I want but I suspect
that can be fine tuned to give me a few minutes to save any work in
progress?
And I wasn't able to find where to enter a "model" name, it just reports
UPS when I do "status." The big thing is that it worked right off
without a lot of searching for a device file, etc.
That and it shows the battery in a low state of charge? It should be
near fully chargedsince its been doing nothing but charging for more
than a day but that may simply based on an assumption that it is
charging while turned on with apcupsd running? I'll wait and see if it
comes up after a while.
This is what I see for status, notice BCHARGE:
service apcupsd start
Starting UPS monitoring: [ OK ]
[root@box6 ~]# service apcupsd status
apcupsd (pid 4166) is running...
APC : 001,024,0564
DATE : Sat Aug 11 10:56:25 EDT 2007
HOSTNAME : box6
RELEASE : 3.14.1
VERSION : 3.14.1 (04 May 2007) redhat
UPSNAME : Nina
CABLE : USB Cable
MODEL : UPS
UPSMODE : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: Sat Aug 11 09:38:24 EDT 2007
STATUS : ONLINE
BCHARGE : 000.1 Percent
TIMELEFT : 3.5 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
MANDATE : 2002-03-01
SERIALNO : D2002337105
APCMODEL : UPS
END APC : Sat Aug 11 10:56:25 EDT 2007
I will remove the Belkin software. I don't need the fancy Windows style
displays.
Tnx.
Bob Goodwin
