[Please subscribe to the mailing list - link below.] On Feb 20, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Peter Gosztonyi wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a Mac mini running Lion, a windows 2008 vm and a Synology Nas. I want > to connect the two devices to an APC Back-up 550 which has a USB connection. > The Nas can be connect to a NUT, hence my endavour to install NUT as a server > on Lion. Not sure yet if i need NUT on the Windows VM or if the Mac can just > suspend the VM. A quick search says the Synology NAS can be a NUT server - true? > The Mac recognized the UPS automatically and i tried to install NUT, NUT-USB > and NUT-CGI. I have to say you have to be quite technical to do anything like > this on macs. Nothing for the average users, by all means. It doesn't make it > easier that there is a huge lack on documentation and example configs. There was a pretty huge lack of interest in NUT on OS on our mailing lists until your email came in :-) > But anyway, on one of the websites, it noted that there can be a conflict > with NUT-USB and later ios if the ios recognizes the ups as well. > Unfortunately i didn't find anything that explains how to solve the conflict. > Any ideas? I use on all of them the latest versions. The short answer is that there is no easy way to make NUT talk to a USB UPS on OS X the same way as on Linux or *BSD. So if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I started looking at a way for NUT to communicate with the OS X UPS manager, but that API is a bit of a mess as well. It seems possible, but complicated to code up. If it works, it should be simple for end users to install, but I won't have much time to devote to coding that until much later this year. Your best bet might be to configure the Mac to be a client to NUT on the NAS. Suspending the VM is going to depend on what virtualization software you are using, but there is a beta of a Windows NUT client on networkupstools.org if you want to go that route. > Thanks, > Pete > _______________________________________________ > Nut-upsuser mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
