Topic: apcupsd and 6.01-01

[Dave]

I've had D. May's apcupsd contrib installed on a 5.6U6 box with an APC SU1000RM Smart-UPS and it was operating fine. The same files as available here:

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/contrib/apcupsd/

Upon doing an upgrade to 6.01-01 the panel in server-manager was still present and was operating perfectly.

After doing a clean install of 6.01-01 and then installing the contrib it again is operating flawlessly.

So, no problems. I just thought this post should make its way into the search database as at least one example of success.

[Timothee]

Hi Dave,

I've just installed these RPM's on my SME 6.0.1-01 machine and I get a nice server-manager panel in which I can configure my APC SmartUPS 700INET.
After configuring it with the same parameters as I did a while back on my 5.1.2 machine, I see an additional graph in sysmon. The multimon.cgi page, however, doesn't work by default because it is placed in the "old" primary ibay. I just copied the files to the "new" primary ibay's cgi-bin directory, but the page isn't able to show me information about the UPS (it did on SME 5.1.2). I get this error @ http://www.bastin.nu/cgi-bin/multimon.cgi:

thabrain.bastin.nu       Not available: upsfetch: tcp_open failed for 127.0.0.1 port 7000

As said, this configuration worked exactly the same on my previous 5.1.2 machine but simply doesn't at my new server

Do you, or anyone else, have any idea how to solve this?

[byte]

The reason it dont work is because the Primary folder was moved to ibays/Primary....I would try moving files to the new location, I havent tried this yet so if you can or if i get time I will report back here  

[Timothee]

Please read a little bit better...I copied the cgi files to the cgi-bin dir of the "new" Primary i-bay. If I didn't, you weren't able to visit the multimon.cgi page

As the error message says, the UPS isn't accessible at port 7000. I'm not a firewall expert, so I don't know what changed at "ports level" in the new SME version. As said, this config worked on my old 5.1.2 server. I don't know what to change to let it work properly.

[byte]

whoops - didnt see that ( was late at nite )  

[RavenIV]

I've had D. May's apcupsd contrib installed on a 5.6U6 box with an APC SU1000RM Smart-UPS and it was operating fine.

Dave, what type of data-cable do you use?
i have a SU1000RM too and don't get it to work.
apcupsd tells me that there is a wrong cable.

cheers

[Timothee]

My APC Smart-UPS 700INET is working fine now. Although I had the serial ports enabled in BIOS, setting them to "auto" did the trick. I only had to change the ttySx port from 0 to 1 and the multimon ups monitoring page is working now (as is the sysmon graph).

I use a "smart" cable, which I made myself by using THISscheme.

For the record: I use SME 6.0.1-01 on an Intel 440BX equipped motherboard.

Regards,

Timothée