APC UPS daemon

[Bill Wether]

Hi, all,

 

I'm running R4 on one of my Supermicro AMD boxes, which is plugged into an APC SmartUPS.  I installed apcupsd to Dom0 (it's in the Dom0 repos) but the box doesn't seem to see the UPS.  It works okay on the same hardware running CentOS 6.5 and KDE--it shows up in the power applet automatically, like a laptop battery.

 

I expect it needs its own dedicated USB controller or something so that it can talk to Dom0, but I can't find anything on it in the docs or on the list archives.  Since it's in the repo, I assume that it works--would someone please enlighten me?

 

Thanks

 

BillW

[Achim Patzner]

On 20190118 at 16:18 +0100 Bill Wether wrote:
> I installed apcupsd to Dom0

Is there any good reason to do that? I handed over my UPS' USB
connection to a separate VM which in turn notifies dom0 using RPC. My next step was moving that to an old <something>Pi and asking it across the network.

And please don't forget to restrict access appropriately if you use a
separate server. Someone turned off my workplace's power bar (and thus
the UPS) and it shut down my notebook across the VPN link.


Achim

[Bill Wether]

On 1/18/19 12:48 PM, Achim Patzner wrote:> On 20190118 at 16:18 +0100 Bill Wether wrote:
>> I installed apcupsd to Dom0
>
> Is there any good reason to do that?

Simplicity.  It would take me a long time to do what you describe below.

 

> I handed over my UPS' USB connection to a separate VM which in turn
> notifies dom0 using RPC. My next step was moving that to an old
> <something>Pi and asking it across the network.
>
> And please don't forget to restrict access appropriately if you use
> a separate server. Someone turned off my workplace's power bar (and
> thus the UPS) and it shut down my notebook across the VPN link.
>

Cheers

 

BillW

[awokd]

Achim Patzner wrote on 1/18/19 5:48 PM:

> connection to a separate VM which in turn notifies dom0 using RPC.

How did you do this step?

[Achim Patzner]

On 20190129 at 12:01 +0000 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote:
> > connection to a separate VM which in turn notifies dom0 using RPC.
> How did you do this step?

Blatantly stealing the idea from qubes.SyncAppMenus but executing some
script that deals with the warning. It's really simple to do it.


Achim