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If you find that THAT is out of date, then file a bug report.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 tha

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 yo

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 UP

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 lik

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 http://www.networkupst

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 machin

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 http://www.networkupst

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 sug