[OmniOS-discuss] usb hid ups monitoring

[Olaf Marzocchi]

I was actually going to suggest you to try the apcupsd software if you have problems with the other ones.
And also, those serial cables are extremely simple, I made one with some loose wires held together with sticky tape and soldered to serial plugs. I cannot even call it "cable".
I am monitoring a Smart UPS 700 via serial and apcupsd and I can also check UPS load, temperature, ...

What are the advantages of the NUT and sntp you mentioned over apcupsd?

Regards,
Olaf Marzocchi



> Il giorno 02/giu/2014, alle ore 06:50, Denis Cheong <denis at denisandyuki.net> ha scritto:
> 
> 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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