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This document describes how to install the Network UPS Tools (NUT). Network UPS Tools is compatible with thousands models of UPS. You can check the Hardware Compatibility List to see if your UPS is supported.

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Installation of Network UPS Tools

You can install network-ups-tools with the nut package.

Configuration

NUT has 3 daemons associated with it:

• The driver which communicates with the UPS.
• A server (upsd) which uses the driver to report out the status of the UPS.
• A monitoring daemon (upsmon) which monitors the upsd server and takes action based on information it receives.

The idea is that if you have multiple systems connected to the UPS, one can communicate the status of the UPS over the network and the others can monitor that status by running their own upsmon services. NUT has extensive documentation on the configuration however this is going to walk through a simple setup of a USB UPS and the associated server and monitor all in one system (common desktop configuration).

Driver configuration

The configuration here will depend on the type of UPS you have. Consult the previously mentioned Hardware Compatibility List to find what driver will likely work for your UPS. You can run the tool nut-scanner(8) which will detect NUT-compatible devices attached to your system.

For many UPS connected by USB, use the usbhid-ups(8) driver.For UPS with serial port, use port=/dev/ttySX, where X is the number of serial port (Example:/dev/ttyS1). For UPS with USB port, use port=auto.

You can name the UPS device whatever you like. ups.conf(5)

Start the driver as root with upsdrvctl start. If there's no errors, you should see a message like this one for the driver usbhid-ups:

If the driver doesn’t start cleanly, make sure you have picked the right one for your hardware. You might need to try other drivers by changing the 'driver=' value in ups.conf.

Can't claim USB device error

If you receive an error message like this one:

Or a less specific one:

It's most likely a problem with permissions for accessing the device. You can fix that by specifying an udev rule that sets the correct group:

Where idVendor and idProduct are the device manufacturer and product ID. You can see these either in the error output [XXXX:YYYY] or by using lsusb.

After this is done, reload and retrigger udev rules by issuing this command:

upsd configuration

By default upsd listens only on localhost and this is fine for our purpose. Though it is not necessary for following this guide, you can configure upsd beyond the defaults by editing /etc/nut/upsd.conf. See upsd.conf(5).

You will need to add a user for a monitor to connect to the server and issue commands. See upsd.users(5).

At this point you should be able to start/enablenut-server.service which will automatically start nut-driver.

If it has started successfully, you can run upsc <upsname> to get information from the UPS. Example output from the command:

upsmon configuration

The last step is to configure upsmon to listen to upsd and take action on events.

Add the following line to /etc/nut/upsmon.conf:

Here upsname is the name of the UPS, and upsduser and password is the user and its password you set in /etc/nut/upsd.users.

You can also configure what alerts are sent, where they are sent, what action is taken when the battery is low, and more. See upsmon.conf(5).

Then start/enablenut-monitor.service.

Your logs should show upsmon starting and monitoring the UPS.

NUT-Monitor

NUT-Monitor is a graphical user interface to monitor and manage devices connected to the Network UPS Tools server.

You can install nut-monitor with the nut-monitor^AUR package.

Do you have a UPS? Do you want to have you system gracefully shutdown in case of a power outage? This guide will show how you can make the most out of your UPS by using NUT from the Network UPS Tools project

Installation

USE flag

To connect a UPS via USB, make sure to set the usb USE flag:

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Configuration standalone

Search a UPS with nut-scanner:

Take note of driver name and port type for configuration file.

If UPS is connected via USB port, add user nut to group usb.

Files

/etc/nut/nut.conf

Set mode to standalone if the machine is connected to the UPS directly and to run NUT on this machine.

/etc/nut/ups.conf

The main UPS configuration file. Make sure that the UPS name (the text in the brackets) doesn't have any spaces. For configuration specific to the UPS you need to look it up here: NUT Hardware Compatibility Lookup

/etc/nut/upsd.users

Configure at least one user so that upsmon can be launched later. upsd will create a TCP connection that upsmon will use to check on the status of the UPS.

/etc/nut/upsmon.conf

Create a MONITOR configuration in /etc/nut/upsmon.conf:

/etc/nut/upssched.conf

Configure operations on that upsmon will check on the status of the UPS:

/usr/bin/upssched-cmd

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Services

OpenRC

To add the services to start on system boot:

To start upsd now run:

To check the status of the UPS manually (adjust the UPS name as needed):

OL means that the UPS is 'online' and not drawing from the battery and is configured correctly.

In the event of a shutdown due to a power failure, nut can additionally turn off the UPS by adding nut.powerfail to the shutdown runlevel:

LAN client/server configuration

Server configuration

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Starting from standalone configuration, change:

Server files

/etc/nut/nut.conf

/etc/nut/upsd.conf

/etc/nut/upsd.users

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