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    dennypage
    last edited by Sep 10, 2016, 2:20 AM

    @frozensteel:

    Man do I want to buy you a beer!  Added mibs=ietf to the "Extra Arguments to driver" field, saved it and BOOM!

    Thanks :D

    You are quite welcome. Glad it's working for you. While disappointing, 136 minutes of runtime is much more realistic than 136 hours.

    How about a whiskey instead?

    :)

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      bulldog5
      last edited by Sep 21, 2016, 5:08 AM

      Hi dennypage,

      I'm having an issue with  NUT on pfSense 2.3.2 and newest NUT pkg 2.7.4_2.  My UPS is detected and displays the graphs just fine using the usbhid driver.  I have my pfSense box set as Local USB master.  My other freeNas server will connect to it just fine as a Slave.  When I pull the wall plug.  I see the WALL message "ups on bat" but it never initiates the shutdown command on the pfSense box itself, the remote NUT slave will get the shutdown command.  If i plug the UPS into my Freenas box and set that as a master, and pfsense as a slave it works as expected.  However I'd prefer pfsense being my Master control.

      Any ideas are appreciated, I've spent a couple hours pulling my hair out thinking it was something with upssched.conf or NOTIFYCMD.

      Thanks,

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        dennypage
        last edited by Sep 21, 2016, 6:10 PM Sep 21, 2016, 5:05 PM

        When you say you pull the plug, are you leaving it pulled until the battery runs down?

        By default, NUT will not initiate a shutdown until the UPS unit reports that the battery is low. Most UPS will not report a low battery until 10% or so. Depending upon your battery runtime, this can be a while.

        I don't use FreeNAS, but I did take a quick look at their configuration. There is a configuration parameter titled "Shutdown mode" which if set to "UPS goes on battery" which will cause NUT to initiate a shutdown immediately when mains are lost. The other mode is "UPS reaches low battery" which is the default behavior of NUT and what the pfSense package uses. Given that most power disruptions are short term, this is generally desirable.

        You can of course change this configuration with the pfSense package by placing directives in the advanced section for ups.conf. Here is an example of something you might want to do:

        ignorelb
        override.battery.charge.low = 50
        override.battery.runtime.low = 600
        
        

        This would tell NUT to initiate a shutdown if the battery level falls below 50% or the runtime falls below 10 minutes.

        See the 'ignorelb' section in the ups.conf manual for details on this.

        With some UPS you can also change the low battery condition settings in the UPS itself. You can determine this by running

          upsrw <upsname></upsname> 
        

        If the UPS supports configuring these variables, you will see values for battery.charge.low and battery.runtime.low.

        See upsrw upsrw manual for details on using the upsrw command. Also see the forum post on running commands.

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          bulldog5
          last edited by Sep 21, 2016, 6:32 PM

          dennypage,

          You're exactly right, I was pulling the main and tapping my fingers expecting the same would happen in 30seconds or so with no result.  Its a CyberPower OR1500PFCRT2U, so at half load I've got about 17-18mins runtime.

          Its a tough design decision to make.  I'm at about 50% load with my pfsense, HP G6 VM box and FreeNAS server, and HP procurve switch.  My original idea was to shutdown the two big boys, freenas and HP G6 pretty quickly, then keep the internet up requiring pfsense and the HP switch.

          One other question I had, I've been seeing every 2hours or so COMMBAD  COMMOK within 5second polls.  I'm using the default usbhid driver.  Have you seen this happen before? Is the UPS actually dropping out and establishing within the 5seconds?

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            dennypage
            last edited by Sep 21, 2016, 9:36 PM

            @bulldog5:

            One other question I had, I've been seeing every 2hours or so COMMBAD  COMMOK within 5second polls.  I'm using the default usbhid driver.  Have you seen this happen before?

            I've not experienced this specific issue personally, but I have had some strange issues with CyberPower units. It could be the result of either a UPS issue or a USB issue. First thing I would check would be the physicals: good USB cable, direct connection with no hub, etc. Assuming that you are satisfied with the hardware connection, my only other suggestion would be to try increasing the pollinterval (ups.conf) to 5 or 10 seconds to see if that helps.

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              bulldog5
              last edited by Sep 21, 2016, 10:38 PM

              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

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                AR15USR
                last edited by Sep 25, 2016, 8:18 PM

                @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..


                2.6.0-RELEASE

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                  stanthewizard
                  last edited by Sep 26, 2016, 1:38 PM

                  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

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                    dennypage
                    last edited by Sep 26, 2016, 4:05 PM

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

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                      McFuzz
                      last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 4:42 AM

                      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.

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                        dennypage
                        last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 5:21 AM

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

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                          McFuzz
                          last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 6:42 AM

                          @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?

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                            dennypage
                            last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 6:47 AM

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

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

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                              McFuzz
                              last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 6:51 AM

                              @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…

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                                dennypage
                                last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 7:01 AM

                                @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?

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                                  McFuzz
                                  last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 7:03 AM

                                  @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?

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                                    dennypage
                                    last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 7:11 AM

                                    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.

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                                      McFuzz
                                      last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 7:13 AM

                                      @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 :(

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                                        dennypage
                                        last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 7:13 AM

                                        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?

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                                          dennypage
                                          last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 7:24 AM

                                          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

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