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    • occamsrazorO
      occamsrazor
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      This question may sound a bit odd, but does anyone have any experience of using multiple APC UPS with apcupsd or NUT, and/or running multiple instances of them?
      I have a couple (2 or 3) APC Smart-UPS with AP9631 network management cards connected to the LAN at home and would like to have their status read by apcupsd or NUT.
      Why? Because I have a nice app for IOS and for Mac that can read UPS status but only from NUT servers, the app cannot read directly from the UPS devices. So I was thinking if I could get NUT or apcupsd on pfSense to read the status from all of the machines, then I can have the app read the status from NUT. I have this working nicely with one device, I just can't see how one could do it with more than one device.
      I don't really need pfSense to act upon all the statuses, just act as a hub to read them and offer up that data.

      pfSense CE on Qotom Q355G4 8GB RAM/60GB SSD
      Ubiquiti Unifi wired and wireless network, APC UPSs
      Mac OSX and IOS devices, QNAP NAS

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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan @occamsrazor
        last edited by Gertjan

        @occamsrazor
        The pfSense GUI forces the usage the NUT tools as : one UPS, like an USB connected UPS, a serial, a network server etc.

        upsmon itself is capable of doing more then that. But config files have to be created 'manually', and upsmon&tools have to be started manually. The GUI will dtect that upsmon is running, and the very next package restart, your config files wil get overwritten by GUI content, etc.
        So, using NUT out of the scope of what the pfSense GUI is proposing is ... complicated.
        You'll be better of using a small VM / docker / RasberPi whatever instance with a dedicated set-up.

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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        • dennypageD
          dennypage @occamsrazor
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          @occamsrazor Using the NUT package you can only monitor/display the single UPS that you are using for pfSense.

          As noted in the main NUT thread, if you want to perform general monitoring of a collection of UPSs you are better off using an SNMP based network monitoring system such as librenms.

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          • occamsrazorO
            occamsrazor
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            Sorry for the delayed reply, the answers are appreciated. Sounds like it is a no-go and that's OK. It wasn't a big deal but would have been nice to have it on pfSense but I'll see what other devices I have that I could install NUT on.

            pfSense CE on Qotom Q355G4 8GB RAM/60GB SSD
            Ubiquiti Unifi wired and wireless network, APC UPSs
            Mac OSX and IOS devices, QNAP NAS

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