Installing a UPS.

Subject: Installing a UPS. Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:53 am

I installed a new UPS today to replace one that has seen too many power interruptions. For the first time I decided to try out hooking up the USB cable and seeing if SUSE could take advantage of having the shutdown feature working. I went to Software Manager and it notified me, without any search, of several packages such as nut, nut-classic and various UPS libraries to upgrade. So I accepted and installed. I notice the UPS is detected in Hardware but I do not see any program for managing how the thing would operate.

Any clues on how to configure? TIA.

Subject: Re: Installing a UPS. Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:28 pm

What brand did you get. I know the APC branded ones are well supported, and I have one running well with gapcom. I also have a Belkin, but never got it to work right.

Subject: Re: Installing a UPS. Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:12 am

Well according to HWinfo it says:

Code:: 51: USB 00.0: 0000 Unclassified device
[Created at usb.122]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_5b8_0_noserial_if0
Unique ID: Zj8l.hKaGq7Y5rH6
Parent ID: pBe4.moLwSePIflE
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/usb2/2-4/2-4:1.0
SysFS BusID: 2-4:1.0
Hardware Class: unknown
Model: "Agiler UPS"
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x05b8 "Agiler, Inc."
Device: usb 0x0000 "UPS"
Revision: "1.00"
Driver: "usbhid"
Driver Modules: "usbhid"
Speed: 1.5 Mbps
Module Alias: "usb:v05B8p0000d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc01ip00"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #50 (Hub)

So its recognized as Agiler though the brand is Diablotex on the outside. The last line of Config Staus would seem to indicate cfg=no, avail=yes... that it could be setup. Just not sure what the steps would be.

Subject: Re: Installing a UPS. Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:28 am

Hmm.. I found knutclient which is a graphical KDE client for nut. I managed to load it from the .tar and do the make, make install and now have a program under Menu>System>Monitor. However it does not recognized the UPS and needs some settings. I will tinker some more unless anyone has a jimdandy approach.

Just tried knutsetting and failed on the ./ configure with

Code:: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

Subject: Re: Installing a UPS. Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:05 am

Installed various qt3 stuff and have advanced to

Code:: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!

trying to find qt-mt but have got nowhere so far. Have to keep researching.

Subject: Re: Installing a UPS. Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:15 am

hmm.. a

Code:: suse112:/home/matt # rpm -qa 'qt*' | sort
qt3-32bit-3.3.8b-93.1.x86_64
qt3-3.3.8b-93.1.x86_64
qt3-devel-32bit-3.3.8b-93.1.x86_64
qt3-devel-3.3.8b-93.1.x86_64
qt3-devel-tools-3.3.8b-93.1.x86_64
qt4-qtscript-0.1.0-4.1.x86_64
qtcurve-gtk2-0.68.0-2.3.1.x86_64
qtcurve-gtk2-32bit-0.68.0-2.3.1.x86_64
qtcurve-kde4-0.67.6-3.2.x86_64

does not show anything useful but

Code:: suse112:/home/matt # ls -l /usr/lib/libqt*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2010-03-28 08:40 /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 -> qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3

shows a link to qt3/lib/lbqt-mt.so.3 so I think I have all I need but it still will not compile the settings program. Bit out of my depth on this. Oh well back to Google. Sad

Subject: Re: Installing a UPS. Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:37 am

Well after reading nuts site (I notice the last date was in 2007) and trying some of the stuff there which does not correspond to the way nut is setup on the root openSUSE file system. I begin to think I will just remove the USB cord and go back to a dumb UPS system. Oh well. scratch

Subject: Re: Installing a UPS. Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:29 pm

MattB4 wrote:: Well after reading nuts site (I notice the last date was in 2007) and trying some of the stuff there which does not correspond to the way nut is setup on the root openSUSE file system. I begin to think I will just remove the USB cord and go back to a dumb UPS system. Oh well.

Well bummer. That's what I've had to do in the past too with my Belkins. Belkin has a linux monitoring client, but never got it to work right.