installing ups monitor

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:19:14 +1100, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

>The above reminds me what I did and how I did it. Because I run a
>Synology NAS, it is important me that it is shutdown in an orderly
>fashion if the power fails. Synology NASes understand APC UPSes out of
>the box, so I used it as a networked UPS monitor and told NUT to check
>the NAS, rather than check the UPS directly. monuser and XXXXXXX are
>the creds it uses to talk to the NAS via SNMP.
>
>If the power failed, the UPS would tell the NAS; the NAS would tell
>anyone who asked, which was what my laptop did via NUT.
>
>So I'm not sure that my configuration is that useful to you. 

Really interesting because I have a Synology NAS as one device on my network
too!

I will study how it will be done and see if I can get it going via the NAS.


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden