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.

26 comments
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Willem de Jongh commented
yes please
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Anonymous commented
bitte einbauen
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ChriZathens commented
Since the UTM is very sparse in UPS details, this would certainly be a very useful feature.
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Anonymous commented
perfect to have this, last time we had power outage.
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Anonymous commented
This is such a importend feature! Unbelievable that you do not support it. So please give us that standard feature!!! Thank you.
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Timothy Hoogland commented
I would love to have this.
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Fab!an commented
we are still waiting...
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Marcus Schenk commented
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.
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Bob Alfson commented
I thought I would refer folks to Marcus' post on the User BB, but he's already copied it here. Thanks, Marcus!
Cheers - Bob
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Marcus Schenk commented
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.rpmrpm -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 TrafficIf it works invoke /usr/lib/ups/driver/upsdrvctl start
and run upsd and upsmonNext you can check your UPS via upsc ups@localhost
Also good to check you system log: tail -f /var/log/system.log -
Bembel commented
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...
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BarryG commented
similar to / duplicate of (multiple) other UPS feature requests.
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Andrew Kay commented
@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.
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flaserra commented
@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
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Gerold commented
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.
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Andrew Kay commented
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.
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William Warren commented
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..:)
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William Warren commented
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..:)
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flaserra commented
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
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Zach Nicholson commented
It would be nice to have ASG send remote shutdown signals to connected servers and be able to adjust shutdown time.