TrippLite UPS Monitoring Setup

walla299 · 07-18-2009, 11:39 PM

I am having trouble getting monitoring to work on my OpenSuse 11.1 x64 system (KDE 4.2 Desktop). The UPS is a Tripp Lite Model G1000u (similar to a Omni900LCD series from what I've learned.) I have the Network UPS Tools (nut) packages installed, and the UPS shows up in dmesg & lsusb, but I still can't get the system to talk to it. Starting the service just gives a failure with no log entries. (Monitoring works in Win XP, so the hardware is good.)

I've tried Google and some searches here, but can't find much.

Here's what the system is seeing so far:

Code:

linux-lsfs:/home/bruces # lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c03d Logitech, Inc. M-BT69a Pilot Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 09ae:2007 Tripp Lite
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Code:

linux-lsfs:/home/bruces # dmesg
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev                                                        
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5                                         
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice                                                         
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c03d                                           
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0                                      
usb 1-1: Product: USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse                                                               
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Logitech                                                                        
usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6                                         
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice                                                         
usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=09ae, idProduct=2007                                           
usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=1, SerialNumber=2                                      
usb 1-2: Product: TRIPP LITE UPS                                                                       
usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Tripp Lite                                                                      
usb 1-2: SerialNumber: FW-2263 E                                                                       
input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/inpu/input1                                                                                                      
input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1             
hiddev96hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device [Tripp Lite  TRIPP LITE UPS ] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2              
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid                                                        
usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver

Any help appreciated!

walla299 · 07-19-2009, 01:35 AM

Wanted to add the reply I'm getting when running upsd program from the nut package after configuring:

Code:

linux-lsfs:/home/bruces # upsd -D
Network UPS Tools upsd 2.2.2
listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3493
Can't connect to UPS [myups] (usbhid-ups-myups): No such file or directory
^CSignal 2: exiting

Driver should access the ups on localhost, but it hangs instead, even though 127.0.0.1 is in the config file. I let it sit for about 10 minutes before hitting ctrl-c to kill it.

walla299 · 07-21-2009, 09:19 PM

Still having the same issues, and have tried everything: docs, google, man pages, etc. Anyone else have any ideas?