<div dir="ltr">Hi Charles, thank you for your answer. <div><br></div><div>This was indeed the core of the problem. I have amended the configuration files. <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It means now the communication works as required. Alas I now have another problem.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Just for the record here is the configuration after the changes.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div>
The configuration is as follows.</div><div><br></div><div><div>#nut.conf</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>MODE=standalone<br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div>
</div><div><div>#ups.conf</div><div>[eaton]<br></div><div> driver = usbhid-ups</div><div> port = auto</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><br></div></div>
<div><div>#upsd.users</div><div>[monuser]<br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>password = password #password changed to demo</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>upsmon master<br></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></div><div>#upsmon configuration<br></div><div><div>RUN_AS_USER monuser</div><div><br></div><div>MONITOR eaton@localhost 1 monuser password master #password changed to demo7</div>
<div><br></div><div># --------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div># SHUTDOWNCMD "<command>"</div><div>SHUTDOWNCMD "/usr/lib/web-admin/<a href="http://backend.pl/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">backend.pl</a> power_off"<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Which solves the question from this post. The syslog messages do not show errors.</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-size:small"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br>
</span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-size:small"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Unfortunately when testing the UPS does not power down. The problem is the upsdrvctl cannot pass the command to the ups. </span></font></span></font></div>
</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-size:small"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br>
</span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-size:small"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">this is the message from upsdrvctl</span></font></span></font></div>
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louis@b3:/etc/nut$ sudo upsdrvctl shutdown eaton</div><div>Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.3</div><div>Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.34 (2.4.3)</div><div>USB communication driver 0.31</div><div>Using subdriver: MGE HID 1.18</div>
<div>libusb_get_report: error sending control message: Device or resource busy</div><div>Got disconnected by another driver: Device or resource busy</div><div>Can't initialize data from HID UPS</div><div>Driver failed to start (exit status=1)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I unplugged the usb and replugged and start nutted again, no change.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope you can help a little more, Thanks so far.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, Louis</div></span></font></span></font></div>
</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>On 20 June 2013 01:53, Charles Lepple <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clepple@gmail.com" target="_blank">clepple@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Jun 19, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Louis Chaillet wrote:<br>
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> # Network UPS Tools: example ups.conf<br>
> [eaton]<br>
> driver = usbhid-ups<br>
> port = auto<br>
> vendor = 0463<br>
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</div>Identifying the vendor or product is not strictly required, but if you provide 'vendor', it must match the 'Manufacturer:' value ('EATON', in your case).<br>
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To match against the hex values, use 'vendorid' (or 'productid').<br>
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Reference: <a href="http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/usbhid-ups.html#_extra_arguments" target="_blank">http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/usbhid-ups.html#_extra_arguments</a><br>
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