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    NUT APC Smart UPS 1500 Service Failed to Start

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    • R Offline
      rsw686
      last edited by

      Did you try to start it from the console with nut.sh??

      Like I said it is NOT supported. I might not give directions next time as I really don't want to deal with this. The correct thing would have been to uninstall nut-usb-2.0.4 like it mentioned when you went to delete nut-2.0.4. Then you could have removed it.

      The reason the nut.xml file isn't there is you removed the package from the gui. That removes the pfSense gui files for it. I'm thinking you will need to uninstall nut-2.2.0 from the console, reinstall the package, remove nut-2.0.4, then reinstall nut-2.2.0.

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      • U Offline
        UnderCover
        last edited by

        thank you for your help

        /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nut.sh start

        starting usbhid-ups
        Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.0
        Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.2.0)

        No matching HID UPS found
        Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
        usbhid-ups failed to start

        i still get this error… i guess my APC Smart UPS 1500 is not supported, i am going to try my serial cable and see if i can get any luck out of that

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        • U Offline
          UnderCover
          last edited by

          SUCCESS

          i got the serial cable to work with it

          /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nut.sh start

          starting apcsmart
          Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.0
          Network UPS Tools (version 2.2.0) - APC Smart protocol driver
                  Driver version 1.99.8, command table version 2.0
          Detected Smart-UPS 1500 [AS0741231626(] on /dev/ttyd0
          starting upsd
          Network UPS Tools upsd 2.2.0
          listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3493
          Connected to UPS [Battery2]: apcsmart-Battery2
          starting upsmon
          Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.2.0
          UPS: Battery2@localhost (master) (power value 1)
          Using power down flag file /etc/killpower

          thanks for your help!

          guess usb is still in development

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          • U Offline
            UnderCover
            last edited by

            btw….

            I reverted to the offical 2.0.4 beta package

            i changed the settings to use my APC Smart UPS 1500 to use a black serial cable

            it works perfectly

            thanks for all your help!

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            • dotdashD Offline
              dotdash
              last edited by

              FWIW, I had a similar issue. Did a fresh install on RC3 on a box that was previously running an older version- beta2, rc1, I forget. Nut was monitoring an APC Smart-UPS 1500 via USB. Re-loaded the packages after restoring the config, but nut would not start. Deleted nut-usb and nut 2.0.4, and loaded nut 2.2.0. Modified the nut.xml, re-selected Smart-UPS (USB), and saved. Worked fine for me.

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              • V Offline
                Visseroth
                last edited by

                How did you go about getting around the required packages?

                And forgive me for asking but how do you install nut 2.2? Where is the package located once downloaded.

                We have had quite a winter here and people and trees are constantly hitting power lines and messing up the power and I would really love to have this working.

                I have a APC 750 VA UPS and it only has a USB interface.

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                • dotdashD Offline
                  dotdash
                  last edited by

                  Here are the notes, adjusted to the currently available package.
                  I haven't had to try it recently, so It may work or it may not. The process is after all, unsupported.
                  Hope these help, but I can't really provide any more help- I was just following rsw686's notes:

                  fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/nut-2.2.0_1.tbz
                  pkg_delete nut-usb-2.0.4
                  pkg_delete nut-2.0.4
                  fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/net-snmp-5.3.2_1.tbz
                  pkg_add net-snmp-5.3.2_1.tbz
                  pkg_add nut-2.2.0_1.tbz

                  edit /usr/local/pkg/nut.xml

                  under APC Smart-UPS USB
                  changed newhidups05 to usbhid-ups00

                  webgui-
                  nut, config, select APC Smart-UPS USB, save

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                  • V Offline
                    Visseroth
                    last edited by

                    I am getting the error…...

                    # pkg_add net-snmp-5.3.2_1.tbz
pkg_add: package 'net-snmp-5.3.2_1' or its older version already installed

                    unfortunately I don't know what prior version is installed. Any help?

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                    • jahonixJ Offline
                      jahonix
                      last edited by

                      pkg_info shows which packages are installed.

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                      • V Offline
                        Visseroth
                        last edited by

                        Well thank you  for the reply. Apparently I'm not having any luck and am afraid of breaking my box so I just hope that some time soon nut 2.2 will be added to the packages.

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                        • jahonixJ Offline
                          jahonix
                          last edited by

                          Does pkg_info show any installed net-snmp… infos?

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                          • V Offline
                            Visseroth
                            last edited by

                            Well, don't know now. I gave up and maybe for the better, for the reason posted in http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7832.0.html

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                            • D Offline
                              DAPBENJAMIN
                              last edited by

                              Hi,

                              I made the change as suggested above:
                              "
                              Then you would need to modify /usr/local/pkg/nut.xml and change newhidups to usbhid-ups.
                              "

                              And now my Back-UPS ES 650 works perfectly.

                              ![Back-UPS ES 650.jpg](/public/imported_attachments/1/Back-UPS ES 650.jpg)
                              ![Back-UPS ES 650.jpg_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/Back-UPS ES 650.jpg_thumb)

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                              • U Offline
                                UnderCover
                                last edited by

                                since we have gone to freebsd 7….

                                are you going to update nut 2.0.4 to the latest out and make it available for the 1.2.1 test snapshots to download?

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