<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve already completed the tests, setting up NUT in FreeBSD running in a Parallels virtual machine.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Results:</div><div class=""><i class="">a.- Can you try 'upsc <a href="mailto:ups@10.0.2.151" class="">ups@10.0.2.151</a>' from another system on the network?</i></div><div class="">NUT Client running in FreeBSD connects to NUT server in OSX, <u class=""><a href="mailto:upsc@10.0.2.151" class="">upsc@10.0.2.151</a></u>, output:</div><div class=""><div class="">battery.charge: 100</div><div class="">battery.runtime: 480</div><div class="">battery.voltage: 13.500</div><div class="">device.mfr: (unknown)</div><div class="">device.model: Back-UPS ES 550 FW:843.K2 .D USB FW:K2</div><div class="">device.type: ups</div><div class="">driver.name: macosx-ups</div><div class="">driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2</div><div class="">driver.parameter.port: auto</div><div class="">driver.parameter.synchronous: no</div><div class="">driver.version: 2.7.3</div><div class="">driver.version.internal: 1.1</div><div class="">ups.status: OL CHRG</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">b.- NUT Server setup in FreeBSD to test NAS’es NUT client connection to a server monitoring a “real “ UPS device</div><div class="">Both NAS’es ReadyNas and Synology have succesfully connected to the NUT server and correctly recognized the UPS device</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Conclusions:</div><div class="">a.- The OSX firewall is correctly setup to allow communications between the NUT server and the NUT clients</div><div class="">b.- The NAS’es NUT clients connection to a NUT Server in FreeBSD monitoring a “real” UPS device successfully identify the UPS device connected to the NUT server.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See FreeBSD NUT server setup messages and NAS’es UPS screens attached.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The NUT software running the driver MACOSX-UPS is a great and unique tool (I’ve found no other option able to manage my setup while using the OSX Power Management services), any further development effort will be of great value. For example to manage several networked Mac computers, while using the OSX Power Management Services in all of them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Adolfo Yanes</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></body></html>