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Setting Up UPS With 628X Confusion
I've had my 628X plugged into a CyperPower UPS for years, but I've never actually gone through the steps to have the 628X power down gracefully during a power outage. How do you do this? When using...
Yes, if you just connect a USB cable, the UPS should be detected and installed, assuming it's a supported UPS (most Cyberpower with USB connection are).
If your UPS is old and has only a serial cable, it's not supported.
Yes, if you just connect a USB cable, the UPS should be detected and installed, assuming it's a supported UPS (most Cyberpower with USB connection are).
If your UPS is old and has only a serial cable, it's not supported.
Thanks for the quick reply. So I forgot that I already have a computer plugged into the only type B USB port on the back of the CyperPower UPS. Do you think it's possible to somehow connect the computer and 628X through a hub and then use the single UPS input? So far I haven't found a hub that uses a type B connector.
XrayDoc88 wrote:
Do you think it's possible to somehow connect the computer and 628X through a hub and then use the single UPS input? So far I haven't found a hub that uses a type B connector.
No, that won't work.
You could install NUTS on the PC, and monitor over the network though. You'd also need to use the UPS to protect the switch that connects the PC ethernet and the NAS.
I'm still not clear. So there is a way for the 628X to communicate with the Cyperpower UPS despite its USB port already being used by another computer? I have to install or run "NUT" on the ReadyNAS? And do I connect the "in" or "out" phone/ethernet port on the UPS to my network? Otherwise, I don't understand how the UPS would ever have an IP address. Thanks. Sorry I'm confused.
XrayDoc88 wrote:
I'm still not clear. So there is a way for the 628X to communicate with the Cyperpower UPS despite its USB port already being used by another computer?
The NAS can relay the information over ethernet. If you look on the settings wheel for the UPS in Power->UPS, you'll see a checkbox for "enable network monitoring of attached UPS". That needs to be set.
Then you'd install NUTs on the PC (it is already installed on the NAS). The packages are in the binaries section here: https://networkupstools.org/download.html Note the Windows one is beta (and has been beta for a long time).
Then the PC version needs to connect to the NAS IP. You use the username monuser and the password pass. https://kb.netgear.com/23121/How-do-I-add-a-UPS-to-my-ReadyNAS-OS-6-storage-system (scroll down to the last section).
Since the communication is over ethernet, you need to make sure that the ethernet connection stays up when the power fails. If the PC and NAS are connected to a switch, then it's enough to connect the switch to the UPS - you don't need to connect the router.
Though personally I do have my switches and router connected to a UPS, so my internet does stay up when the power fails.
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