RE: [cobalt-developers] Re: RaQ3 UPS solutions

["Lyle Scheer" <lyle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

Sounds like something funky is going on... it may well indeed be 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.

The slave should display the same LCD messages that the master displays.  If
it is not, then it is not communicating with the master.

I don't have time right now to detail out how the config files should look,
but that documentation should be in the smartups documentation.  If you
cannot figure it out, pop me another mail and I'll try to look it up on
Monday.

- Lyle