Unfortunately no one can be told what fun_plug is - you have to see it for yourself.
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I have my APCC Smart-UPS 1400 plugged in directly with USB to my DNS-343 and it works fine.
However, I'd like to share the UPS with a linux box as well as my windows workstation.
I suppose if I put in a more complete version of NUT (which I believe exists), I could network-share the UPS just fine.
I also have an APC ShareUPS box.
Right now, I'm just speculating... but..
I'd like to hear from others that have hooked this stuff up in weird fashion.
Anyone?
-Ben
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I tried to get NUT working on a DNS-323 and DNS-343 but have not been able to do so. Plugging my "Cyberpower 850" into the NAS's did allow it to be recognized, but I could not get the stock version of NUT to play with the other NAS.
I ended up just using a ghetto solution that when tested seems to work fine.
I keep the NAS plugged into my Win7 box and the handy software works like I'd expect.
The NAS's both have a cron job that pings a router in the house that is not on a UPS but is on the same breaker as the NAS's. When the NAS gets 3 failed pings (100% lost pings), it initiates a shutdown. It works well enough and the UPS does what I mainly wanted, protect from intermittent power fluctuations. Mostly, this saved me from hours of trying to get NUT to work on a budget UPS. Not elegant but does the job.
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Ok... I'll try digging a little more. The ping script is interesting though. Maybe that should be the route.
I've noticed my crontab's don't run over a reboot. probably something else I missed.
Just not enough time lately to mess with this stuff. So many other things to do.
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Yeah getting the crontabs to reset it fairly easy, you need to run a script at boot up... (Check if it comes with Fun_plug actually) Here is what I do:
Have this script, ie: editcron.sh set to "chmod a+x" and be in your /ffp/start/ directory... The script is this:
#!/bin/sh CRONTXT=/mnt/HD_a2/crontab.txt # start with existing crontab /bin/crontab -l > $CRONTXT # add the Rsync job to execute at 2:05 am #/bin/echo "5 2 * * * /mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/bin/rsync -rlptDv --delete /mnt/HD_a2 /mnt/HD_b2" >> $CRONTXT # UPS script, check for power to router every 5 minutes /bin/echo "*/5 * * * * /ffp/share/power.sh" >> $CRONTXT # install the new crontab /bin/crontab $CRONTXT # clean up /bin/rm $CRONTXT
I actually am pretty sure this comes with ffp, I surely did not come up with this on my own. Just follow the commented out example to add any cron jobs you want.
Last edited by caust1c (2010-08-06 07:07:14)
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This is what I use to check for power and shutdown the DNS-343 if needed:
/ffp/share/power.sh
#!/bin/sh
PING=`/ffp/bin/ping -c 3 192.168.221.1 | /ffp/bin/grep % | awk '{print $7}'`
if [ "$PING" == "100%" ]
then
echo Power off!
/sbin/poweroff
else
echo Power on!
fiThis will only power down if 3 pings are lost, 100% loss... This allows for the unlikely chance that 1 or 2 pings may be lost on the LAN, even though power is still up and there are no problems.
Last edited by caust1c (2010-08-06 07:11:13)
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fabulous. Thanks!
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