HOW TO: Disable UPS Battery Power Beep

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I own two different Tripp-lite UPS units (AVRX550U and OMNIVSX1000D) and recently I became fed up with the incessant beeping of the UPS when on battery power. Here is how I turned it off in FreeNAS.

• Go to Services -> UPS and enabled the UPS service.
• Click the pencil to edit the service details and setup your UPS (I won't go into those details since there are plenty of write-ups).
• In the "extra users" field of the UPS service details enter the following (feel free to change the password to whatever you want it to be:

Code:

[root]
           password = mypass
           actions = set
           actions = fsd
           instcmds = all

• Click save then stop and restart the UPS service.
• Click Shell (on the menu panel).
• Type "upscmd -l [UPSNAMEHERE]" [ENTER]. This will give you the list of acceptable commands for your UPS.
• For my device "beeper.disable" was the command I wanted.
• Type "upscmd [UPSNAMEHERE] [COMMAND]" [ENTER]. It will ask you for your username and password. Use "root" and the password you set above. you should get an "OK" response.

You can find your UPS Name by going to Services->UPS and clicking the pencil. It's under "UPS Identifier".