On Nov 11, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Jürgen Wege wrote:
Hi all,
sorry for this message, but maybe I am the most dumb user in here,
so, please accept my appologies asking novice questions.
I have tried 6 searched for more than 4 hours now, read all html-man
files I could think need to be read and also the major one, but I
did not manage to get the NUT to successfully run on my Vista
machine. (it runs, but I cannot use it ... see later).
What's Vista? Is that some sort of theme for Windows NT? ;-)
Take comfort in the fact that the Windows port of NUT is in beta
status, and is only really supported by one developer at Eaton. But
there may be enough overlap with the rest of NUT that we can help.
Is there any Step- by- Step guide that is written for real dummies?
(I mean for dummies! The "NUT user Manual" seems to be too high
level for me.)
Chapter 6 of the User Manual goes through configuration step-by-step:
http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/ar01s06.html
It even starts with a single UPS<->PC connection, then progresses
towards network concepts.
My major problem seems to be that I do not understand the concept in
full yet, especially:
- What needs to be started to have a system that:
- - reads the state of an attached UPS frequently
- - can be requested from a TCP Client using <ip-of-machine>:3493
* a driver (running on the machine connected directly to the UPS
communications port)
* upsd (with a LISTEN directive; see below)
* upsmon (for automated shutdowns)
- What needs to be modified to:
- - have a local installation that would run local programs upon
events from the UPS (like "onpower", "onbattery")
http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/ar01s07.html
- - have the machine respond (or allow to open) to clients using the
<ip-of-machine>:3493 to connect
- is there any way to run an exe locally to tell in which state the
system is?
use "upsc":
http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsc.html
I have:
- sucessfully installed the msi
- got the service to run (after first errors and finally change the
"mode" to "standalone")
- have modified the ups.conf and inserted [APC01MAIN] section with
driver=usbhid-ups, port=auto, vendorid=051D
- modified the firewall to allow incoming requests for port 3493
(all levels)
I cannot:
- use the (old?) WinClient to connect to the service
- use any other TCP Client to connect to <ip-of-machine>:3493
- have no idea what to do to get a local info on the UPS's state
What went completely nuts?
- I tried to set up the system to use <ip>:3493 to listen to.
Changed upsd.conf and inserted LISTEN=127.0.0.1:3493 and LISTEN=<ip>:
3493
Have you tried using LISTEN without the "=" sign?
http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsd.conf.html
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