I have an APC UPS with an AP9630 network card (not using USB).
I'm having issues configuring it, because the official docs are pretty minimal and ambiguous, and unfortunately so is guidance in the forum. There is an entry in the drivers list for AP9630, but the rest is unclear.
Rather than fumbling in the dark, can someone walk me through exactly how to configure my UPS and get it working properly with FreeNAS?
(As examples where I find the docs unclear, it provides the "monitor user" default name, but nothing else. So it doesn't say if this is the account used for client to daemon communication? Or daemon to UPS? Does the user need to create the account in Accounts-> Users, or on the UPS itself; or is it just used internally by networkupstools? Is the account literally used for "monitoring" only, or is a separate account needed to issue commands to the UPS? And where does one define the second login - presumably my card needs both "client->daemon" and "daemon->ups" logins defined.)
I've reset the UPS to "factory settings" through its GUI, and it's picked up an IP address using DHCP, so I can login on the UPS webUI with the default password. I'm now trying to figure what settings I need to create in the UPS webUI, and in the FreeNAS UPS service. The main functionality I'm after is pretty basic: alerting on power outage, and if not remedied within a given number of minutes, the NAS begins a shutdown (leaving the UPS powered up). I'd also like to be able to get status info off the UPS using the CLI. The NAS doesn't control any other "slave" power or any other UPS; it's a standalone master.
I'm having issues configuring it, because the official docs are pretty minimal and ambiguous, and unfortunately so is guidance in the forum. There is an entry in the drivers list for AP9630, but the rest is unclear.
Rather than fumbling in the dark, can someone walk me through exactly how to configure my UPS and get it working properly with FreeNAS?
(As examples where I find the docs unclear, it provides the "monitor user" default name, but nothing else. So it doesn't say if this is the account used for client to daemon communication? Or daemon to UPS? Does the user need to create the account in Accounts-> Users, or on the UPS itself; or is it just used internally by networkupstools? Is the account literally used for "monitoring" only, or is a separate account needed to issue commands to the UPS? And where does one define the second login - presumably my card needs both "client->daemon" and "daemon->ups" logins defined.)
I've reset the UPS to "factory settings" through its GUI, and it's picked up an IP address using DHCP, so I can login on the UPS webUI with the default password. I'm now trying to figure what settings I need to create in the UPS webUI, and in the FreeNAS UPS service. The main functionality I'm after is pretty basic: alerting on power outage, and if not remedied within a given number of minutes, the NAS begins a shutdown (leaving the UPS powered up). I'd also like to be able to get status info off the UPS using the CLI. The NAS doesn't control any other "slave" power or any other UPS; it's a standalone master.
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