[cobalt-developers] Re: RaQ3 UPS solutions

[Michael Dierker <mdierker@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lyle,

  A few more questions about the Cobalt UPS support. I borrowed a friends 
SmartUPS 700 to test out the the support before moving to my backups.

I am setting my second RaQ to slave off of the first one (set as Master). 
When configuring the UPS through the front panel, I can not set the IP 
address of the Master. The lcd is displaying a confusing message which 
looks like an overlay of the message displayed in 
/etc/lcd.d/10main.m/15CONFIGURE_UPS.s/10configure_ups and a message - 
"Shutting down UPS". After exiting from the configuration, I can look into 
the /etc/sysconfig/ups file and HOST is set to some garbage - not an IP 
address. This looks like a bug.

Second - I went in a edited the /etc/sysconfig/ups file to set the HOST 
variable to the IP address of my UPS master and then restarted the UPS 
deamons. When I test the configuration by pulling the UPS cord, I get a 
message displayed on the Master LCD screen and a power fail message sent to 
a logged in telnet session. Nothing happens on the Slave system (no lcd 
message and no terminal message). How can I test that the salve is working 
correctly.


thanks, mike dierker


Michael Dierker
PineTree Consulting
Email: mdierker@xxxxxxxxxxx