NUT package (2.8.0 and below)

bulldog5

Its a brand new unit, literally just hooked it up yesterday. USB cable everything is good. It will be fine for hours. then it does a single UPS lost, UPS established.

(no tty) at 16:36 CDT…

Communications with UPS ups lost

(no tty) at 16:36 CDT...

Communications with UPS ups established

AR15USR

@bulldog5:

Its a brand new unit, literally just hooked it up yesterday. USB cable everything is good. It will be fine for hours. then it does a single UPS lost, UPS established.

(no tty) at 16:36 CDT…

Communications with UPS ups lost

(no tty) at 16:36 CDT...

Communications with UPS ups established

I get this same thing, when I switch usb ports it stops doing it. I think its a usb2 vs 3 thing, at least on mine..

stanthewizard

Hello

Nice nice feature with this plugin

When battery is low the NUT service does send a signal ?
Or I have something to do ?

Thanks for help

dennypage

When the UPS enters a low battery state NUT initiates a shutdown.

McFuzz

Hello!

Is there a tutorial to get email notifications to work? I have the checkbox ticked, but when I tested by putting the UPS on battery power (yanking power cord), it did not produce any notifications… I had it all working before upgrading to 2.3.2_1 and NUT upgrading to 2.4.7_2... but seems like things are a whole lot different now.

dennypage

Have you sucessfully tested emails in System Advanced / Notifications / E-Mail following the upgrade?

McFuzz

@dennypage:

Have you sucessfully tested emails in System Advanced / Notifications / E-Mail following the upgrade?

Yes I have - and indeed they are coming through. I have not done any additional configurations in the UPS Settings -> Advanced Settings section… am I supposed to configure anything there aside from ticking the checkbox?

dennypage

You did a save of the NUT settings after ticking the checkbox, yes?

Please post the contents of /usr/local/etc/nut/upsmon.conf.

McFuzz

@dennypage:

You did a save of the NUT settings after ticking the checkbox, yes?

Please post the contents of /usr/local/etc/nut/upsmon.conf.

Yup - I did.

Here are the contents of upsmon.conf - I did not modify it yet; want to first get the defaults working:


MONITOR BX1300G 1 monuser a620bdded832fb08439a master
SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -p +0"
POWERDOWNFLAG /etc/killpower
NOTIFYCMD /usr/local/pkg/nut/nut_email.php
NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE   SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT   SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG LOWBATT  SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG FSD	  SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG COMMOK   SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG COMMBAD  SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG SHUTDOWN SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG REPLBATT SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG NOCOMM   SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG NOPARENT SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC

Naturally, I browsed through nut_email.php and noticed that it is referencing to a file called notices.inc:


require_once("notices.inc");

However - can't find that file anywhere…

dennypage

@McFuzz:

Naturally, I browsed through nut_email.php and noticed that it is referencing to a file called notices.inc:
require_once("notices.inc");
However - can't find that file anywhere…

You should find this as /etc/inc/notices.inc.

The contents of upsmon.conf look fine. Please run the following:

echo "hello" | /usr/local/pkg/nut/nut_email.php

What happens?

McFuzz

@dennypage:

@McFuzz:
Naturally, I browsed through nut_email.php and noticed that it is referencing to a file called notices.inc:
require_once("notices.inc");
However - can't find that file anywhere…
You should find this as /etc/inc/notices.inc.

The contents of upsmon.conf look fine. Please run the following:
echo "hello" | /usr/local/pkg/nut/nut_email.php
What happens?

Yup - notices.inc is in /etc/inc

Attempted to execute the command - all I got was an email that simply had a timestamp; nothing else… was I supposed to see "hello" in the body?

dennypage

Sorry, my bad. It should have been:

/usr/local/pkg/nut/nut_email.php hello

And yes, the content of the email should be like this:

Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:09:55 -0700
hello

If you receive this, it means that your email notifications are working.

McFuzz

@dennypage:

Sorry, my bad. It should have been:
/usr/local/pkg/nut/nut_email.php hello
And yes, the content of the email should be like this:
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:09:55 -0700
hello
If you receive this, it means that your email notifications are working.

Yup - that worked; got an email with "hello" in it.

So what's wrong with the automatic notifications? :(

I just tried it again (saved the settings, for a good measure) - yanked the power off the UPS so it goes on battery power… got the notification within the shell session, but no email :(

dennypage

Assuming that your email notifications are working…

When you pulled the cord, how long did you wait? If you were logged into pfSense, did you see a wall announcement?

When you go to Services / UPS / Status with the cord pulled, what do you see?

dennypage

Are you affected by this bug?

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=115349.msg646251#msg646251
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=115349.msg646466#msg646466

McFuzz

@dennypage:

Assuming that your email notifications are working…

When you pulled the cord, how long did you wait? If you were logged into pfSense, did you see a wall announcement?

When you go to Services / UPS / Status with the cord pulled, what do you see?

I just gave it another shot:

Disconnected power
pfsense shell session indicated the UPS being on battery
UI dashboard as well as Services -> UPS both indicated the UPS needed attention (and showed it discharging)
Waited a minute and plugged back in
Shell session indicated the UPS was back on line power practically right away
UI dashboard reflected power restoration and shows the UPS as charging.

McFuzz

@dennypage:

Are you affected by this bug?

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=115349.msg646251#msg646251
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=115349.msg646466#msg646466

Hooray! That worked!!!!!

Thank you :)

So yeah - I guess I am affected :x

dennypage

You're welcome. I'm glad it worked for you.

endy66

Since yesterday, i have also an brand new UPS, one from CyberPower. I installed the nut package and everything is working as expected. Thanks to this thread, i could set the override.battery.charge.low to shutdown my pfsense earlier.
But now i have one question, i don't know, if this is the rigt Forum to ask this: I want to shutdown a Linux/Debian Server, which should get the data from the pfsense. So i have added in the upsd.users inside the box of the nut Settings the following:


[client]
password = mypass
upsmon slave

And in the upsd.conf box


LISTEN 192.168.1.1

On the Server i installed the nut-Client package (apt-get install nut-Client). With this command


upsc CyberPower_USV@192.168.1.1

i can get all the data from the pfsense (UPS)

But how can i make, that the Server also shuts down, when the pfsense box is shutting down?

EDIT// Everything is working now, i had to set the MODE=netclient on the Server.

But i found a Problem with the override values. As i said above, i have set the following to the additional ups.conf field in pfSense:


ignorelb
override.battery.charge.low = 50
override.battery.runtime.low = 1200

BUT These values are added on top of the ups.conf file, which means in my case, they are ignored. When i edit the ups.conf manually from ssh / Shell, and set thes override values at the bottom of the file and restart the daemon, the everything works and also the Monitoring in pfsense Show the new values. Is this a bug? Problem is, after reboot or restart the daemon, These values are not the anymore…

Best Regards

alanper

Firstly, thanks for a great and extremely useful package.
I'm having a problem with the NUT package on my pfSense deployment. When I click on Services->UPS I get an alert "Status Alert: The UPS requires attention". The NUT service is setup as a Remote NUT Server. The service is connecting fine to the UPS as I can see values and graphs being populated (correctly). The service is working as expected as well, as when I drop power to the UPS, NUT detects it and does what it is setup to do. Yet I still get the "Status Alert: The UPS requires attention" every time I go to Services->UPS. Any ideas?