Network UPS Monitoring ...

[James Mcphee]

Do you have apcupsd configured?  That's how we do it.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Does anyone in this community have any experience managing Network UPS?
>
> I purchased an "APC 3000VA Smart-UPS" (
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0785NCFMY) in 2020. It's been
> performing exactly as it should ever since, and life is great.
>
> However, when I've had it, I have experienced two or three "catastrophic"
> power outages (*line utility goes out*), and the UPS kicks in and does
> exactly what it is supposed to do.
>
> My problem is that in the time between buying the UPS and now, my homelab
> has grown significantly, and in one of those power outages, I
> overestimated my battery time, and my entire stack died while I was fucking
> around with one of the servers.
>
> In my most recent power loss, learning from the past, I raced downstairs
> at 2AM with all the UPS alarms beeping loudly, and I raced to shut down the
> stack properly, knowing (*this time*) that I'd only got about 5 minutes
> of life. I got everything shut down this time, which is good—but it forced
> me to take a good hard look at some kind of Automated Shutdown.
>
> I've known for a long time that these things *could* happen, but I've
> never had a need to investigate. Well, here we are, LOL.
>
> I have the APS UPS connected to my switch, and it is getting a DHCP IP --
> and I can see ARP requests going back and forth -- my pfSense FW shows that *it
> is* sending/receiving data -- albeit just a few kilobytes here and there,
> but I know there is TCP/IP life on it -- but I'm at a loss beyond that.
> I've tried to SSH to it, but I just always get a "Connection Refused" --
> using the "default" credentials I found online, "apc/apc"...
>
> So yeah, anyone out there with any background or experience with Network
> UPSs, I'd love to chat with you to figure out how I can get into this thing
> and make it do what I'm absolutely certain it's capable of doing!
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Alex.
>
>
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James McPhee
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