Re: UPS monitoring with nut

2013-08-18 Thread Ash Narayanan
Thanks for the explanation Darac. Makes more sense now. I had a look at the user manual that comes with nut-doc. In the configuration section, it requires you to access files under /usr/local/ups. I do not have this directory. If you find that THAT is out of date, then file a bug report. Is

Re: UPS monitoring with nut

2013-08-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:15:51PM +0930, Ash Narayanan wrote: I am looking to set up nut (version 2.6.4-2.3) to monitor my ups in Wheezy but can't seem to find any relevant guides/tutorials. I've searched through several guides online (including the one pointed to by

Re: UPS monitoring with nut

2013-08-16 Thread Ash Narayanan
A bit of information regarding the setup I'm after: One Wheezy server connected to UPS via usb (master) One Wheezy server connected to the first server via ethernet (slave) Both servers being supplied power by the UPS That's a common situation. On the master you'd want something like:

Re: UPS monitoring with nut

2013-08-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 07:03:10PM +0930, Ash Narayanan wrote: A bit of information regarding the setup I'm after: One Wheezy server connected to UPS via usb (master) One Wheezy server connected to the first server via ethernet (slave) Both servers being supplied power by the UPS

Re: UPS monitoring with nut

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:15:51PM +0930, Ash Narayanan wrote: I can't seem to find any up to date guides. Are there any? Or is one allowed to upload a package to Debian without any instructions on how to use it? Unfortunately, yes. OTOH, if you installed a chess playing program, would you

UPS monitoring with nut

2013-08-15 Thread Ash Narayanan
I am looking to set up nut (version 2.6.4-2.3) to monitor my ups in Wheezy but can't seem to find any relevant guides/tutorials. I've searched through several guides online (including the one pointed to by http://www.networkupstools.org/documentation.html). For example, whatever I read seems to

Re: UPS monitoring with nut

2013-08-15 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:15:51PM +0930, Ash Narayanan wrote: I am looking to set up nut (version 2.6.4-2.3) to monitor my ups in Wheezy but can't seem to find any relevant guides/tutorials. I've searched through several guides online (including the one pointed to by

Re: UPS monitoring with nut

2013-08-15 Thread Ash Narayanan
I unfortunately don't use nut, so can't help you with that particular package. However, you might want to check out apcupsd, and see if it supports talking to your UPS. I have an APC UPS here connected to a squeeze server. I do though manually check it once in a while from a wheezy machine