Re: Installing a UPS for a NetBSD server... software and procedures?

Did you need to do anything special to get apcupsd to work?
USB drivers 
to install in some way?

How about others with experience with ups-nut? Configuring
USB devices?

Gilles.

Konrad Neuwirth wrote:
> Hey, 
>
> Gilles Gravier <GillesGravier.org> writes:
>
>   
>> OK... I'm going to try with a BK650EI (CS series)
from APC...
>>
>> ( http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techs
pec_index.cfm?base_sku=BK650EI )
>>     
>
> We've had two different members of that family (I don't
remember the exact
> details, but the're the medium-sized battery) in
production for a number of
> years now, and so far have been quite happy.  One is
connected via RS232,
> the other via USB and they just do their work.  We're
going against apcupsd
> on both machines, and it's both a single machine on the
UPS, so that works
> well.
>
> Basically, we just don't notice that they're there.
>
> Konrad
>   

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Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Did you need to do anything special to get apcupsd to
work? USB drivers 
> to install in some way?

(This wasn't directed at me but if you don't mind I dare to
answer anyway.)

A year ago when I got the UPS (APC Back-UPS CS 650 /
BK650EI; actually I have
two of them now), the pkgsrc version of apcupsd was outdated
but installing
the official tarball was straightforward. Since then I'm
running 3.12.2 without
any real problems*. pkgsrc now has 3.12.4 so that should
work just as good or
probably even better now.

As for USB, no special driver is needed (only ugen) but a
little kernel patch
to prevent uhid from grabbing the device. The better
solution is to force ugen
to attach with "flags 1" but I don't know if this
made it into the releases
yet.

(Alternatively you can disable uhid completely if you don't
need it.)

Regards,
Tom


* The only glitch I noticed so far: occasionally apcupsd
tells me that my
battery was dead and needs immediate replacement, but
changes its mind again
after a few seconds or so. As everything is running fine
nonetheless and the
UPS does its job when needed I didn't care enough to look
after that.