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Setting up ReadyNAS 314 and CyberPower UPS
Hi, I have a ReadyNAS 314 unit and a CyberPower UPS connected to USB and would like to configure it for the ReadyNAS but am a little confused how to do this, can someone please help me do this? cheer...
claytonb wrote:
Hi, I have a ReadyNAS 314 unit and a CyberPower UPS connected to USB and would like to configure it for the ReadyNAS but am a little confused how to do this, can someone please help me do this? cheers
The above post gives the general directions.
But all you need to do is connect the USB cable betwen the CyberPower and the NAS. The NAS should autodetect, and configure itself.
I have several CyberPowers connected to various ReadyNAS.
I was seeing some UPS communication errors in logs with OS 6 (Netgear tells me that the UPS isn't as "well behaved" over USB as it might be). However, Netgear was able to resolve those, and the UPS is working properly now. But I do see some UPS events in kernel.log.
So do I unplug the USB cable from the computer instead and plug into ReadyNAS? if so how would I then use the computer with the CyberPower?
claytonb wrote:
So do I unplug the USB cable from the computer instead and plug into ReadyNAS?
Yes.
claytonb wrote:
if so how would I then use the computer with the CyberPower?
If power failures are infrequent (or short), then one option is to simply not monitor the UPS from the PC. If the UPS battery drains, then the PC will do a forced shutdown (while the NAS will do a graceful one). I do that with one of my PCs.
A second option is to install the NUT software on the PC, and use it to monitor the UPS through the ReadyNAS via the PC's ethernet connection. You'd need to connect the ReadyNAS and the PC to the same router/switch, and make sure that the router/switch is also protected by the same UPS.
Or of course get a second UPS for the PC.
Thanks for the information, attched the USB cable to NAS and it configurated automatically, not fimiliar with configuring NUT software so will decided to use NAS or PC with the UPS, I do have a serial port on the UPS but I don't think I could run both simultaneously.
If all you want to do is have the PC monitor the UPS that's attached to the NAS, there's not a lot of configuring to do. Just Google "NUT for Windows". The latest MSI is a beta from a couple years ago, but it's stable for what you need.
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