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Getting Zentyal 3.0 UPS module to work.
« on: August 07, 2013, 06:40:26 pm »
Hi. I got Orvaldi 620GE UPS and it should be compatible with upsmon and Linux in general (as nuts support all ups upsmart did , then it still should be supported), thats what the manufactuers homepage says about this specific model. It has 1 RS232 port and the Zentyal server also has 1 RS232 port. I have the RS232 wire hooked up and configured the UPS module like this:

And the error message is Error: Driver not connected and there are broadcasts in terminal that orvaldi@server is offline.
A snip of syslog
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Aug  7 11:50:16 server upsd[7033]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
Aug  7 11:50:16 server upsd[7033]: Can't connect to UPS [orvaldi] (blazer_ser-orvaldi): No such file or directory
Aug  7 11:50:16 server upsd[7034]: Startup successful
Aug  7 11:50:16 server upsmon[7036]: Startup successful
Aug  7 11:50:16 server upsd[7034]: User upsmon@127.0.0.1 logged into UPS [orvaldi]
Aug  7 11:50:16 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:50:16 server upsmon[7037]: Communications with UPS orvaldi@localhost lost
Aug  7 11:50:21 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:50:21 server upsmon[7037]: UPS orvaldi@localhost is unavailable
Aug  7 11:50:26 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:50:54  upsmon[7037]: last message repeated 5 times
Aug  7 11:50:56 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:51:01 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:51:06 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:51:11 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:51:38  upsmon[7037]: last message repeated 5 times
Aug  7 11:51:41 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:51:46 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:51:51 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:51:56 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:52:35  upsmon[7037]: last message repeated 7 times
Aug  7 11:52:36 server upsmon[7037]: Poll UPS [orvaldi@localhost] failed - Driver not connected
Aug  7 11:53:41  upsmon[7037]: last message repeated 13 times
Aug  7 11:54:24  upsmon[7037]: last message repeated 8 times
Broadcast messages:
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Broadcast Message from nut@server
        (somewhere) at 14:22 ...

Communications with UPS orvaldi@localhost lost


Broadcast Message from nut@server
        (somewhere) at 14:22 ...

UPS orvaldi@localhost is unavailable
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Sorry for posting in the wrong section before.  :D Also today I had very fancy behavior when changing UPS driver, I set it to genericups and as soon as nuts start - the server starts to shut down. The recovery console helped this time (removed /etc/init.d/nuts).
I don't know much about rs232 ports in Linux so maybe there is something i'm doing wrong or a fix or a way to look. In near future we are planning to buy a new UPS, maybe someone can share of what UPS works best with zentyal?
Thanks. :)

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Re: Getting Zentyal 3.0 UPS module to work.
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2013, 08:03:51 pm »
Hello, well, I think, any APC SmartUPS will do. For example, I use APS SmartUPS 3000 using serial connection, and it works quite good. I choose driver APC --> Smart-UPS --> apcsmart, and port Serial 1.