Hi Dan,
Great to hear you solved your issue.
While your flash drive may be the issue, I have some surprisingly old SanDisk
CF cards still working.
Also setting variables to "" and not gibberish seems more deterministic rather
than randomness.
Lonnie
On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Dan Ryson wrote:
> Lonnie,
>
> Thanks for the refresher on apcupsd. That's exactly what I did - and
> that part seems to be working just fine. I also appreciate the reminder
> on where the web configuration files are located. For the life of me, I
> couldn't find 'em.
>
> It looks like corruption in /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/network.conf was
> responsible for this symptom. Specifically, HTTPSDIR and HTTPSCERT were
> both set to "" (nothing). After setting these to the correct values
> ("/stat/var/www" and "/mnt/kd/ssl/webinterface.pem" respectively) and
> rebooting, the web interface came right back up and is working perfectly.
>
> As to what caused the corruption... I don't know. But this may be a
> reminder that the flash drive is overdue for replacement.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Take care,
>
> Dan
>
>
> On 6/3/2013 2:16 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> I don't see a related reason why the web interface is not responding. If
>> you have ssh or console access, a "ps" and "ss -an" should show if lighttpd
>> and ports 80 and 443 are LISTEN'ed on. Of course if any of your
>> /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/ files got corrupted, then that could explain things.
>>
>> A refresher on "APC UPS Monitoring & Shutdown"
>>
>> The apcupsd daemon is started if:
>>
>> 1) UPSTYPE and UPSCABLE rc.conf variables are defined.
>> 2) The file /mnt/kd/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf exists.
>>
>> Both methods are supported via the Network tab in the web interface.
>>
>> In general #1 is all that is needed, which sets "NETSERVER on" and "NISIP
>> 127.0.0.1" which allows the command line tool "apcaccess status" to access
>> stats locally, which the Status tab uses.
>>
>> If, you want the AstLinux box to act as a server to other apcupsd clients,
>> then do the following:
>>
>> $ mkdir /mnt/kd/apcupsd
>> $ cp /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf /mnt/kd/apcupsd/
>>
>> Edit "/mnt/kd/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf" line from "NISIP 127.0.0.1" to "NISIP
>> 0.0.0.0" .
>> Note this can be done via the web interface as soon as
>> "/mnt/kd/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf" created.
>>
>> $ service apcupsd stop
>> $ service apcupsd init
>> --or-- "Restart UPS Daemon" via the web interface
>>
>> BTW: If memory serves me, there may be some other settings (timeouts or
>> such) that may want to be tweaked if acting as a server, which is why we
>> require the use of "/mnt/kd/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf" when acting as a server
>> rather than simply creating another rc.conf variable for the NISIP option.
>>
>> Dan, if you think your HTTPS values got corrupted, a quick check with the
>> following should help.
>>
>> $ grep '^HTTPS' /etc/rc.conf
>>
>> $ grep '^HTTPS' /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/*.conf
>>
>> Lonnie
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Dan Ryson wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I'm suddenly unable to access the AstLinux web interface. Instead, I get a
>>> rather unfriendly "403 - Forbidden" response. Any thoughts on how to best
>>> rescue this wayward machine would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Perhaps yesterday's sequence of events (noted below) had something to do
>>> with this. I'll provide them to be complete:
>>> • Commercial Power Failure about 4:17 PM
>>> • After operating on UPS five minutes, a power-hungry CentOS server was
>>> manually shut down. This remarkably extended battery run-time.
>>> • About 5:20 PM, power was restored to the UPS and thus the PBX by a
>>> portable generator.
>>> • About 7:00 PM, commercial power was restored.
>>> • Realizing the need for the power-hungry CentOS server to
>>> automatically shut down next time, I installed and configured apcupsd on
>>> that machine to connect to the AstLinux PBX via the LAN. However, it
>>> failed to connect.
>>> • Troubleshooting revealed that the apcupsd program on AstLinux was
>>> running with NISIP=127.0.0.1. According to the documentation, this only
>>> permits connections only via localhost.
>>> • In checking the web interface, I found that the UPS Type and Cable
>>> settings were both showing "disabled." However, testing using apcupsd
>>> command line tools indicated that apcupsd was running. Likewise, settings
>>> previously entered under Safe Asterisk & SIP Monitoring were disabled and
>>> all entries were blank.
>>> • Since the web interface doesn't permit tweaks to the NISIP parameter,
>>> a manual apcupsd.conf file was created and saved it in a newly created
>>> /mnt/kd/apcupsd/ folder.
>>> • Upon a reboot, I was greeted with the 403 error.
>>> I suspect that in addition to the apcupsd settings, other items on the
>>> network page also vanished, including the HTTPS Server Options. Is this
>>> something I can access and update via SSH?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
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