topic Re: UPS "realtime" status software in Operating System - HP-UX

UPS "realtime" status software

Bill Richardson_3 — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:41:52 GMT

I have the HP PowerTrust II A1353A UPS. I have several deployed at remote sites. Is there a way for me to log into the remote site and issue "commands" to determine the realtime status of the UPS? What is the current load level? What is the current charge status? What were the high/low watermarks? etc. Is there software I can get to do this? We also use APC UPS's that have the Powerchute software to show me realtime graphics of the current state of the UPS.

Re: UPS "realtime" status software

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:58:07 GMT

APC or Triplitte has software that works with HP-UX. I'm not certain however whether it will work with a power trust unit.

If you have ups_mond.conf configured and the appropriate entry in /etc/inittab Status changes in UPS will show up in /dmesg and /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

You can scan the syslog.log file on a periodic basis and send email alerts when there is a major status change picked up.

I'm attaching a hardware monitoring script that looks for lbolts and sends out emails when it finds them. All you need to do to the script is look for something other than lbolts.

Its a production script, which means it has real email addresses. Please change them prior to using the script.

SEP

Re: UPS "realtime" status software

Duncan Edmonstone — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:13:35 GMT

Bill,

You could see if this software:

http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=J43xxASW

works with your UPS's

Its not clear that it actually does, but as its free you can always give it a try!

HTH

Duncan

Re: UPS "realtime" status software

Bill Richardson_3 — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:23:26 GMT

Thanks Duncan.
Yes, I do have the ups_mond turned on and yes, I'm aware of the event logging to syslog. We do monitor for the various events that may be logged via Tivoli. I still would like to run a "status" report on each of my 10 UPS's every so often ... say every Monday morning.

Re: UPS "realtime" status software

Darren Prior — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:39:27 GMT

Hi Bill,

The following document is available if your ITRC login details have been linked to your contract: KBRC00008992

The document discusses using Kermit to connect to the UPS and send commands. I'm not sure whether you can get the exact info you require from your particular UPS, and I'm not sure you'd want to have to kill the ups_mond in order to check the UPS - but it's worth a read.

Otherwise, I don't believe there is any HP software out there for this purpose. UPS Manager II is now obsolete, and I believe the software mentioned in an earlier post was
not suitable for your UPS.

regards,

Darren.

Re: UPS "realtime" status software

Bill Thorsteinson — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:30:52 GMT

Given the obsolete status of the PowerTrust
software would HP release the protocol so that
the driver for NUT can be upgraded?

Re: UPS "realtime" status software

Bill Richardson_3 — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:46:14 GMT

Bottom line, through this forum and HP's response center, there are no great solutions! Options that MAY exist but are not "guaranteed" and may not provide The full array of necessary info are: Kermit, UPS Manager II (on the HP Supplemental OS CD ... NOT SUPPORTED!), and LanSafe III. Thanks for your help!