Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Plex mediaserver in an LX zone

[Denis Cheong]

I am running Plex within an LX zone, there is very little that is
particularly special about it.  The article you referred to is a good start.

Publish any required file systems over lofs, configure your file ownership
and permissions correctly, and just run it as if it's Ubuntu.




On 8 October 2016 at 19:35, Günther Alka  wrote:

> about LX
> I have not yet worked with this concept.
> Main problem seems the lack of documentation, blogs and howtos or a simple
> ready to use example for OmniOS.
>
> A good start would be a documented example like a Plex LX mediaserver.
> Has anyone used this in SmartOS and can give some informations about doing
> the same with OmniOS? I will add a support menu for handling and management
> of LX containers in napp-it then as I suppose that many non storage related
> features and add-ons are LX containers in future.
>
> see http://lightsandshapes.com/plex-on-smartos.html
>
> Gea/ napp-it.org
>
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] usb hid ups monitoring

[Denis Cheong]

The principal benefit of ethernet is that you avoid all the driver / port
issues (at the expense of, as Paul said, the risk that your switch goes
down before the server / UPS and you lose connectivity - if it is not on
the same UPS).

USB support can be tricky in OmniOS - it obviously doesn't support
everything and is more likely to have issues that are difficult to diagnose
/ rectify.

Serial support may be fine, but a hacked-together cable like that is
obviously not production-ready.  The UPSs come included with a cable, but
if it's been lost then a standard straight-through serial cable is not a
drop-in replacement (although they can be found on ebay easily enough).
Also, these days very few motherboards come with RS232 onboard - and USB to
serial adapters pretty much suck; there are so many that have tiny
differences in their chipsets that they frequently don't work (this is
especially troublesome on Windows but I have not tried it in OmniOS - where
support may also be limited).



On 2 June 2014 17:41, Olaf Marzocchi li...@marzocchi.net wrote:

 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 
 de...@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 hen...@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 de...@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 hen...@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-inputconnectedunconfigured ok

 usb3/1.2   connectedunconfigured 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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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] usb hid ups monitoring

[Denis Cheong]

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 hen...@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-inputconnectedunconfigured ok

 usb3/1.2   connectedunconfigured 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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Re: [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 hen...@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 de...@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 hen...@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-inputconnectedunconfigured ok

 usb3/1.2   connectedunconfigured 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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