Hi everybody.
After a lots of unsuccessful attempts to get this working, I would like to ask community for help .
Company where I work recently purchased two APC Smart-UPS X 3000 that came with network management cards AP9631. Two APC UPS devices are put in redundant configuration (they behave as one). We installed Powerchute Network Shutdown 4.0 software for graceful shutdown of physical/virtual machines and only problem that we are currently having are two FreeNAS servers because we could not find a way how to connect them to PowerChute Virtual Appliance. According to APC Powerchute Compatibility Matrix, FreeNAS (Freebsd) is not officially supported.
We managed to connect them to single network card (Services -> UPS -> driver *APC ups 3 (various AP9630), port IP address of management card, monitor user user on management card and monitor password authentification phraze on UPS device, remote monitor ticked +
command from cli upsc upsname@localhost for verification). Unfortunately, this will not perfectly protect servers in some cases.
The only useful thing that we managed to find is this
https://numberformatdata.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/ups-configuration-on-freebsd-8-2/
which gaves us an idea that we could compile PCNS driver, but we do not know how to do something similar on FreeNAS 9.3 (if it is possible)
Is there any way to connect Freenas to PowerChute Virtual Appliance ver. 4 ? If that is not possible, what solution would you recommend for this case ?
Thanks
After a lots of unsuccessful attempts to get this working, I would like to ask community for help .
Company where I work recently purchased two APC Smart-UPS X 3000 that came with network management cards AP9631. Two APC UPS devices are put in redundant configuration (they behave as one). We installed Powerchute Network Shutdown 4.0 software for graceful shutdown of physical/virtual machines and only problem that we are currently having are two FreeNAS servers because we could not find a way how to connect them to PowerChute Virtual Appliance. According to APC Powerchute Compatibility Matrix, FreeNAS (Freebsd) is not officially supported.
We managed to connect them to single network card (Services -> UPS -> driver *APC ups 3 (various AP9630), port IP address of management card, monitor user user on management card and monitor password authentification phraze on UPS device, remote monitor ticked +
command from cli upsc upsname@localhost for verification). Unfortunately, this will not perfectly protect servers in some cases.
The only useful thing that we managed to find is this
https://numberformatdata.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/ups-configuration-on-freebsd-8-2/
which gaves us an idea that we could compile PCNS driver, but we do not know how to do something similar on FreeNAS 9.3 (if it is possible)
Is there any way to connect Freenas to PowerChute Virtual Appliance ver. 4 ? If that is not possible, what solution would you recommend for this case ?
Thanks