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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...
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?
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.
AFAIK, you can't share an SNMP connected UPS via NUT. It's certainly not an available option in the GUI. But why would you want to since it's already available via SNMP? While Eaton doesn't provide a Mac version of their IPP software, NUT should be able to monitor the UPS directly via SNMP, unless that feature is unavailable in the Mac version.
- Hi SandShark,
All I can say is that everything worked fine previously. I added the UPS in the ReadyNAS GUI, installed the app called PowerMonitor/PowerGuard on the Mac’s in the network (including some terminal scripts from their developer at:
https://apps.dniklewicz.com/ups-mac/powerguard.html), and then configured the connected the app to the NUT server. That final process being the part that fails.
I reached out to the developer of the app and they have suggested that it could be that the IP addresses need to be white listed on the NAS, but I can’t see how I would do that. Or if it’s a correct assessment of the situation.- Bearing also in mind that I never had to do ay ‘white listing’ before (unless it’s something that the helpful Netgear agent did for me remotely upon setup)
- Hi, Stephen.
Yes. Via USB.
PACMAN7 wrote:
Yes. Via USB.Then the NAS doesn't care about the IP address of the UPS. Whitelisting isn't relevant.
Normally you'd set turn on the remote monitoring option in the UPS settings, and then use the NUT username/password Sandshark gave you in the NUT client in the NAS. The IP address in that client is the NAS IP, not the Eaton's IP.
It looks something has gone wrong with the USB connection to the Eaton. Is there a way to disable the SNMP feature in the Eaton?
StephenB wrote:
PACMAN7 wrote:
Yes. Via USB.Then the NAS doesn't care about the IP address of the UPS. Whitelisting isn't relevant.
Normally you'd set turn on the remote monitoring option in the UPS settings, and then use the NUT username/password Sandshark gave you in the NUT client in the NAS. The IP address in that client is the NAS IP, not the Eaton's IP.
It looks something has gone wrong with the USB connection to the Eaton. Is there a way to disable the SNMP feature in the Eaton?
Just want to add that the UPS type should be shown as "Local UPS" in the admin web ui.
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