[OmniOS-discuss] usb hid ups monitoring

[Denis Cheong]

Fair enough - bear in mind that the serial port on Smart UPSs require a
special cable, they are not simple serial despite their appearance.


On 2 June 2014 14:28, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

> I actually do have a network management card in the unit, and was
> originally thinking of monitoring via the snmp driver :). However, the ups
> for the server is not the same ups as for the network gear, and at least
> for now the server ups has about twice the runtime as the network ups 8-/,
> so my connection to the ups would drop before it ran out of juice :(. I'm
> not sure what nut would do in such a circumstance, extrapolate from the
> last reading or consider the ups dead. It seems safer all around to just
> have a direct connection to the ups in this case. It also has a serial
> port, so I could try that if USB fails me, but I'd rather use USB. It's
> trivial to get going under linux, pretty much just plug and play. It would
> be nice to get a similar level of usability for illumos distributions. I
> hear talk on and off of doing a rip and replace of the entire illumos USB
> stack, that's usually in the context of adding usb3 support, I don't know
> if that would make use cases like this easier too.
>
> Thanks...
>
> On Jun 1, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Denis Cheong <denis at denisandyuki.net> wrote:
>
> I am monitoring the exact same UPS on my OmniOS box, with NUT configured
> as per the old Oracle blog - however I have it connected through a network
> interface.
>
> If you have issues with connecting it via USB, I suggest you consider
> adding a network card which is likely to be much easier to get up and
> running.
>
>
> On 2 June 2014 13:29, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:
>
>> So I've got an older APC Smart-UPS 1500 which I'd like to monitor from
>> omnios via usb. I plugged it into one of my linux boxes just to verify
>> how it presented the usb interface, and NUT said:
>>
>> driver = "usbhid-ups"
>>         port = "auto"
>>         vendorid = "051D"
>>         productid = "0002"
>>         product = "Smart-UPS 1500 RM FW:617.3.D USB FW:1.5"
>>         serial = "AS0411320933"
>>         vendor = "TRIPP LITE"
>>         bus = "002"
>>
>> So I believe NUT should support it with the standard hid driver. I went
>> looking for how to setup usb ups support under omnios, and didn't find
>> too much. Most of the results for Solaris talk about forcing the device
>> to use the ugen driver rather than the hid driver, but I found some
>> posts on the NUT mailing list saying that's not really needed anymore,
>> and you should be able to monitor it as a hid device.
>>
>> At this point, I've got it plugged in, and it shows up as:
>>
>> usb3/1.2                       usb-input    connected    unconfigured ok
>>
>> usb3/1.2                       connected    unconfigured ok         Mfg:
>> American Power Conversion  Product: Smart-UPS 1500 RM FW:617.3.D USB
>> FW:1.5  NConfigs: 1  Config: 0  : 1
>>
>> It looks like it's connecting as a HID device, although it's showing up
>> as unconfigured. I haven't installed NUT yet, so maybe it will be as
>> simple as running it and the device will be automagically configured and
>> start working ;). But while I'm spinning up NUT, I wanted to see if
>> there was any more up to date advice on how to monitor a usb hid type
>> ups under omnios.
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
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