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Setting up a NUT server on ReadyNAS 6 for Mac network
Hi,
Does anyone know of a more user friendly way of setting up a NUT server on ReadyNAS 626 running v6.10.10, other than Fink? The NAS had been working fine as a NUT server to the family setup of Macs running UPS PowerMonitor, and I'm guessing that a reset I carried out on the NAS must have removed the original setup that the Netgear agent carried for me (which I have no notes on) and when I try and add the UPS device via the NAS IP address from within my UPS Monitor app on the Mac I'm getting error 61 (connection refused).
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks In advance,
Phil
From what you showed, the UPS is currently connected to the NAS via SNMP, not USB, and you cannot share an SNMP-connected UPS via the NAS (because it normally makes no sense to do so). The UPS should have automatically shown up if connected via USB, so something appears wrong with that connection. It's either physical (bad cable, bad port, etc.), the UPS is not one that the NUT version on the NAS recognizes, or the USB connection is disabled in the UPS.
If you can't find why the USB connection isn't working with the NAS or SNMP-capable UPS monitoring software for the Mac (my quick Google didn't show much that was promising), can you simply plug the USB into the Mac and use it's built-in UPS monitoring capability and connect the NAS via SNMP, as you have already done?
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The ReadyNAS is already running NUT. It's what it uses to monitor the UPS. If you try to install another version, you may well mess things up.
Have you enabled remote monitoring of the UPS from within the GUI? Once you have done so, use the user name monuser and password pass to monitor from another device running NUT.
Hi Sandshark,
Can't get that to work.
The only details I can get the NAS to accept are:
Name: UPS
Description: Eaton 6KVA UPS
Type: SNMP UPS
Address: 192.168.1.77
Community: public
MIBs: Powerware
That gives me a green circle to the left suggesting it's good. If I try entering anything else, it fails to connect to the UPS.
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