UPS Connectivity without USB?

[tom__w]

Hello,

I have a Smart-UPS 2200 RM XL battery backup. The unit only has a serial port and a Network interface. It does not have a USB port.

How can I connect this battery backup to my FreeNAS 9.1 box?

...T

 

[cyberjock]

Easy.. use the serial port or network inferface :P

 

[tom__w]

My understanding was that FreeNAS only worked with USB? How do I use the Network method (preferred)

 

[tom__w]

And serial.....

I would love to know how to connect my FreeNAS box to the APC UPS via ethernet. Do I configure NUT as a slave and specify the UPS management card as the host?

 

[tom__w]

Anyone able to tell me how to connect my 9.1 FreeNAS box to my APC UPS via Ethernet (the APC doesn't have USB)?

 

[TheSmoker]

If i remember correctly freenas uses nut. Short for network ups tools. You can configure it to use snmp to read the ups. Before that you need to configure the ups as well as the keys for the snmp read community.
Then you instrument nut to read the snmp data from ups.
Complete nut manual here:
http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/index.html
Your ups seems to be supported:
http://www.networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html

Good luck!

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[MrKz]

You will need to configure your APC to accept SNMP read from the IP of your FreeNAS box, once you've done that you'll need to get a little hacky with your FreeNAS box for it to use SNMP.

Out of the box SNMP doesn't work and the webinterface will not let you select the driver/port for snmp-ups correctly, in the first instance configure your UPS in the FreeNAS interface, selecting "Various ups 3" as the driver, the config will not work once saved as you cannot select the correct port, i.e. you can not define the IP of the target UPS, merely the Serial/USB port.

I accept no responsibility from this point, tinker at your own risk.

You can over come this problem by downloading your /data/freenas-v1.db and editing it in SQLlite database browser. Open the DB, browse data and edit the 'services_ups' table, change 'ups_port' to the IP address of your UPS. Save and upload the file back to your box.

Go back into the UPS config web page and add a line to the Auxiliary parameters (ups.conf) section;

community = public

my community is public2, but the default is public on most APC's.

Save this.

If you look at /etc/local/nut/ups.conf you should have something like this;

[APCUPS]
driver = snmp-ups
port = 192.168.2.250
desc = "5000"
community = public

At this point you can try and start the UPS service, it should connect. To check if the FreeNAS box can actually see the SNMP data, use;

/usr/local/libexec/nut/./snump-util

I have this working with an APC Smart-UPS RT 5000 XL at the moment.

 

[max322223]

For the record -- steps from the previous post work with 9.3.1, and APC 3000 RM XL. Plus, the port selection control on UPS configuration UI is editable, so I could enter the IP address of the UPS, and didn't have to mess with any databases.

 

[nello]

I used a serial connection to add a UPS to FreeNAS. In my case, my FreeNAS server didn't have a serial port, but my motherboard supported one so I had to add a card.

Is there some reason you don't want to use a serial connection?

 

[cyberjock]

Not that I can think of.