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Sambat
Jan 06, 2017Aspirant
RN104 connection to APC BE700G
Hi, I have purchased an APC BE700G-UK UPS to protect my Netgear ReadyNAS 104 and I am bit confused on the instructions provided concerning the powerchute software.
Does powerchute control the UPS via the UPS Ethernet network port, or should the UPS be connected via the USB/data cable included with the UPS to one of the USB ports on the NAS, in which case is powerchute needed?
My NAS is located on my network via a switch.
Thanks
( I tried to contact APC but their webpage just errors)
8 Replies
- FramerVNETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi Sambat,
Kindly try following the steps provided on the link below:
How do I add a UPS to my ReadyNAS OS 6 storage system?
Do not install the powerchute for now since I did not see any information on the steps provided on the link.
Regards,
- djcroAspirant
FramerV,
Thanks for your reply.I have just started setting up a recently bought RN214 and have upgraded to OS 6.6.0. Although I see 6.6.1 is released I was waiting for the ReadyNAS admin page to advise it was ready to install rather than do it manually.
I have an APC BE700G-UK attached to my RN214 using the APC supplied cable connected between the APC data port (the top port of three) and one of the two USB 3.0 connections on the back of the RN214. The RN214 recognises it as a remote ups and displays info similar to that in the second row of the screen shot at the start of the link above:
How do I add a UPS to my ReadyNAS OS 6 storage system?
i. e. In the first part of the instruction under
1. Select System > Settings > UPS.
I still have to confirm whether a graceful shutdown is effected on change to battery power of whether it just dies once the battery does. Any comment or advice would be appreciated. I had expected the ups settings to cause a graceful shutdown after a preset time ever. good say 15 minutes.
I would like clarification on the UPS settings -What does threshold Mean? is 20% stil leaving 80% of battery Life? what is Auto? Is their any explanation of when to or what the benefits of ticking the Enable network monitoring of attached UPS are.
I agree with Sambat that the instructions are not clear in the APC instructions and will be querying/commenting to them.
DavidC
- SambatAspirant
Hi, thanks for the link.
My software was slightly different, however I have only now plugged the NAS into the UPS and it has shown up in the ReadyNAS software/web page. It has been set as on Auto so should be ok.
I just need to test now to see if it performs a graceful shutdown.
If you think I need to change or add any settings do let me know.
Thank you for your help.
- mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee Retired
Firstly the NAS doesn't use PowerChute. It uses NUT (Network UPS Tools). With a USB UPS all you should need to do is connect the USB cable (and obviously connect the NAS power cable to the UPS as well).
You can directly connect the UPS to your NAS using the USB cable. Note the UPS must have a USB port. Serial-to-USB cables are not supported by our NAS units.The system will shutdown gracefully. With APC units you can set the shutdown threshold. There is an automatic level of battery left on the UPS which you can use or you can set a different threshold as you wish.
"Enable Network Monitoring of attached UPS" allows you to share the UPS with other devices (e.g. ReadyNAS units) on your network. They obviously need to have their power supplies connected to the UPS too. So you can shutdown multiple devices safely using the UPS rather than just one). Obviously you'd need the router/switch power plugged into the UPS too for this to work. Routers/switches can be left to turn off whe the UPS battery runs out but devices such as NAS units should be shutdown safely.
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