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Management: Enable UPS sharing

It should be possible to make the UTM the UPS master and other servers obtain notifications from UTM or UTM becomes a client of another UPS server offering informations.

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  • ChriZathens commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Since the UTM is very sparse in UPS details, this would certainly be a very useful feature.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is such a importend feature! Unbelievable that you do not support it. So please give us that standard feature!!! Thank you.

  • Marcus Schenk commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I don't see a dupe in this since NUT is already implemented and just needs to be modified to Support SNMP querying a remote UPS.

  • Bob Alfson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I thought I would refer folks to Marcus' post on the User BB, but he's already copied it here. Thanks, Marcus!

    Cheers - Bob

  • Marcus Schenk commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is even possible using their already exisiting NUT (Network UPS Tools) package. I have tried adding the snmp-ups driver and have it query several APCs with "Network Management Card" and "Network Management Card 2" - It runs OK in the background, but no front end and no battery level is visible in UTM GUI. Please add support for snmp-ups and make it gui configurable.

    For 9.103-5 which I assume is a SLES 11 SP3 or OpenSuse 10.2 you need to get the following modules:

    nut-drivers-net-2.6.2-31.1.i586.rpm
    net-snmp54-5.4-10.1.i586.rpm
    neon-0.28.4-3.1.i586.rpm
    libneon27-0.28.4-3.1.i586.rpm
    libopenssl0_9_8-0.9.8m-3.3.2.i586.rpm

    rpm -i these and edit /etc/ups/ups.conf

    comment out section [ups] and create a new entry like this one:
    [ups]
    driver = snmp-ups
    port = 192.168.101.71
    community = public
    snmp_version = v1
    mibs = apcc
    pollfreq = 15
    desc = "UPS"

    You can test the connection by invoking:
    /usr/lib/ups/driver/snmp-ups -a ups
    Make sure you make a Firewall Exception to allow outbound SNMP Traffic

    If it works invoke /usr/lib/ups/driver/upsdrvctl start
    and run upsd and upsmon

    Next you can check your UPS via upsc ups@localhost
    Also good to check you system log: tail -f /var/log/system.log

  • Bembel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It has now been more than 4 years since this request has been created - our ASG/UTM machines are still the ones in the datacenter without proper uplink to our UPS system to be shut down in case of a power outage...

  • Andrew Kay commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @gerold: Our Astaro's (along with everything else) at HQ hang off a pair of Liebert UPS. The primary UPS has an optional SNMP/web card installed so our infrastructure can initiate shutdown during extended power outages. It'd be nice for our ASG's to do the same.

  • flaserra commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @gerold, in most cases there is a network ups, not an usb ups, that manage all the server farm... so in my case I need to connect to UPS via lan

  • Gerold commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    the feature is almost implemented: just tweak the config of the nut daemon and make a little whole into the firewall, so clients can get all they need from a locally USB connected nut supported UPS.
    What could be the problem to have a little GUI for this?

    Allowing ASG to be a client for an other upsd seems more expensive to me.

  • Andrew Kay commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Might be worth considering the NUT (Network UPS Tools) package over apcupsd. NUT has broader support including APC, Belkin, Cyberpower, Dell, Eaton, HP, Liebert, MGE & Powerware among others.

  • William Warren commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have a cyberpower ups that has Three dataports. Right now i'm shoehorning the management software into the Astaro to get it to shutdown on queue. Once i get that working i'll let everyone know what i had to do to make it work..:)

  • William Warren commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    use your file server to do this. actually i ahve a new ups i jsut isntalled at a client that has three data ports so i can actually have the asl not depend on another machine. I ahve my file server as the lan master and the asl in primary port 2 so it talks to the ups on it's own..:)

  • flaserra commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    this idea has 1 year, when will be implemented? we need it, ASG is ***the ONLY device*** in our server room without lan connection to our APC ups... :(( I hope that developer team will soon accept this request

  • Zach Nicholson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be nice to have ASG send remote shutdown signals to connected servers and be able to adjust shutdown time.

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