UPS Firewall and sendmail

[Susan Prosser]

Hi
We have recently bought and had installed an APCC UPS system. It, and the main computer room reside behind a firewall. We access the UPS menus by through the firewall and pointing the IE5 brower at the UPS's ip addess.
In order to recieve alerts from the UPS I need to configure the APCC system to send me emails via our Exchange Server.
Any ideas on how we could do this please?? TIA

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Your UPS runs HTTPD. Does it run SNMPD as well?

I snmpquery the MIBs on the UPS over the network to monitor the UPS load, the UPS battery time remaining and the UPS temperature. When the threshold is exceeded, a paging alert and email is sent to me.

For your case, if your UPS runs only HTTPD, you can make use of lynx (need to compile on HP-UX) and interface it with your scripts to monitor such statistics.

# lynx -dump http://...

This will provide you with the HTML output which you can parse using sed, awk, cut or perl etc. text manipulation tools.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Kevin

ups_mond is not able to send email:-

ups_mond uses the syslog message logging facility to log these
occurrences (see syslog(3C)). Messages are written to the console if
ups_mond is unable to send them to syslogd. Critical messages (see
DIAGNOSTICS section) are also sent to the console.

What you can do is write a script to monitor the syslog file for ups messages and have the script mail you the error (using mailx).

Along the lines of:-

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#!/bin/sh
cat /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log | grep UPS | grep CRITICAL > /tmp/UPSCRITICAL

mailx -s "UPS CRITICAL WARNING" me@my-company.com
# after sending clean up syslog.log appending to a ups warning log
# Remove the error from syslog
cat /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log | grep -v UPS | grep -v CRITICAL > /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.clean
# Copy log with error to history and email to to sysadmin
mailx ???s ???UPS ERROR??? me @my-company.com cp /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log /var/adm/syslog/syslog.last
# Put clean log in place so on next check same error not reported.
cp /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.clean /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
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Paula

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Kevin

I forgot to put a check to see if /tmp/UPSCRITICAL actually contains data - if not then no further action is required.


HTH

Paula