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UPS Setup on 51600 with Firmware 6.5.1
Just installed an APC APU. Running Win 10x64 and connected the USB cable from the APC APU to my main PC. I know they see each other because the APC Software can talk to the APC APU. Also installed...
No! Wanted to enable SNMP on my main PC and talk to my NAS. Am already using the USB cable from my APU to my main PC.
Thanks
What most people do is install NUT on the PC and use that to export the UPS status to the NAS (which can remotely monitor via NUT).
The ReadyNAS can monitor using SNMP, but I believe that requires the APC to have a network management card installed.. http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23121/~/how-do-i-add-a-ups-to-my-readynas-os-6-storage-system%3F?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
In any event, if it can be done w/o a network management card, it would require setting up the APC software on the PC to act as an SNMP proxy agent for the UPS. The APC forums are probably a better resource for this.
If you get it to work, it would be useful to post a how-to guide here.
Ok, maybe it's just me but this is way too complicated for a simple home network with a router.
Home Network has an 8-port Gb Switch attached to the Gb Router....what if I connect the APC APU ethernet port directly to the Switch...will the Network see the APU Unit and assign an IP address that the whole Network and devices use, including the NAS?
Thanks
TomBlack wrote:
Home Network has an 8-port Gb Switch attached to the Gb Router....what if I connect the APC APU ethernet port directly to the Switch...will the Network see the APU Unit and assign an IP address that the whole Network and devices use, including the NAS?
Yes it should. Though you should refer to the APC documentation. You want the APC APU to have a constant IP address, so either reserve it in the router (post the router model if you can't figure out how) or give it a static address. Reserving is generally better.
Note the switch needs to be protected by the APC also, otherwise the PC and the NAS will never get the message that power has failed.
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