Topic: Sharing a ups without using "UPS" as the name?

[Michail Pappas]

Hello all,

I have a UPS connected to a SME 8 server, using NUT. On the same network a QNAP NAS exists, which I'd like to configure as a NUT slave. Unfortunately, QNAP devices when operating as NUT slaves expect the NUT ups to have a specific name ("qnapups"), and specific user/password ("admin" / "123456" respectively). Security is not an issue in this environment.

SME presents its UPS with name "UPS", which also seems hard-coded in /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/ups/ups.conf

Which would be an elegant way to modify this? Copying /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/ups/ups.conf to templates-custom and modifying "UPS" to read "qnapups" comes to mind, but perhaps there are cleaner alternatives?

Thanks in advance for any info provided.

For QNAP NAS in nut slave, see http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=182&t=60166