ILRI Research Computing

The APC UPS Daemon used to work, but now the daemon refuses to start. Attempts to start fail, and this is printed in the system log:

Aug 17 15:08:36 hpc-ilri apcupsd: apcupsd startup succeeded
Aug 17 15:08:46 hpc-ilri apcupsd[3224]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 649 Cannot find UPS device -- For a link to detailed USB trouble shooting information, please see <http://www.apcupsd.com/support.html>. 
Aug 17 15:08:46 hpc-ilri apcupsd[3224]: apcupsd error shutdown completed

I haven't been to the server room yet to check out the problem.

After the daemon is installed, there are two files which need attention:

[alan@hpc-ilri: /etc/apcupsd]$ cat hosts.conf
# Network UPS Tools - hosts.conf
#
# This file does double duty - it lists the systems that multimon will
# monitor, and also specifies the systems that upsstats is allowed to 
# watch.  It keeps people from feeding random addresses to upsstats,
# among other things.  upsimage also uses this file to know who it 
# may speak to. upsfstats too.
#
# Usage: list systems running upsd that you want to monitor
#
# MONITOR <address> "<host description>"
#
# Please note, MONITOR must start in column 1 (no spaces permitted)
#
# Example: 
# MONITOR 10.64.1.1 "Finance department"
# MONITOR 10.78.1.1 "Sierra High School data room #1"
#
MONITOR 127.0.0.1 "ILRI-HPC"

The defaults are ok, but make sure the daemon is configured to use UPSTYPE usb, and leave the DEVICE blank for auto detection.

UPSTYPE usb
DEVICE