topic Re: Hadware address in Operating System - HP-UX

Hadware address

Javier Ortiz Guajardo — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:35:56 GMT

IÃ¡m installing the UPS Manager and itÂ´s asking for the UPS Hardware Address (in 12 digits format). how can i get this number..

The ioscan shows
8/20/2 tty Built-in RS-232C

this is the conection of my UPS to the machine.
I donÂ´t see anything about UPS in ioscan.

T

Re: Hadware address

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 19:05:20 GMT

I don't recall every seeing anything about a UPS in ioscan.

You should see the comm port as you do.

Take a look at the file /etc/ups_mond.conf
and /etc/inittab for configuration.

A UPS isn't like ordinary hardware, say a scsi bus.

The hardware address of the port its connected to should be sufficient.

Some of the new UPS units come with 10 BT lan connections. I'm guessing this is not one of those units.

What is the part number of your UPS?

SEP

Re: Hadware address

Javier Ortiz Guajardo — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 19:26:53 GMT

The part number is A2997A

Re: Hadware address

Michael Steele_2 — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:10:13 GMT

When you say UPS Manager is that 'ups_mond'? The UPS monitor daemon which reports to syslog.log? I think the title UPS Manager applies only to the UPS device but not the HP-UX server.

For the HP-UX server it'll either appear as a serial mux or serial terminal connection.

"... ioscan will not explicitly display a UPS in its configuration; only the MUX port is displayed. ..."

-or-

Although the PowerTrust UPS is hardware, it displays in ioscan output only as a terminal port. Its monitoring daemon, ups_mond, is a program that reads and writes through that port.

Re: Hadware address

Michael Steele_2 — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:13:51 GMT

I'm sorry, I believe HW address and HW path are the same. 8/20/2 would be the HW address.

Re: Hadware address

Michael Steele_2 — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:16:39 GMT

Here is your part number and it is for a PowerTrust UPS and the ioscan is correctly displaying the tty HW Path.

"...Invoke ioscan for the tty class to display the hardware path, driver, and device special file(s) available for the UPS..."

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90675/B2355-90675_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90675/00/00/57-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90675/00/00/57-toc.html&searchterms=A2997A&queryid=20031111-071350

Re: Hadware address

doug mielke — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:28:58 GMT

Any time I see an address of 12 digits I assume it's an ethernet address. Is it possible that the UPS software is configured for Network access to the UPS?

Re: Hadware address

Kent Ostby — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:32:28 GMT

Once you have the address, you can follow this document for most systems to test the serial port.

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&mode=id&searchString=KBRC00008525&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&search.x=8&search.y=8

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby