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Because of this sumer heat wave, I finally decided to install an Uninterrupted Power Supply for my debian server.

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So I decided to buy a Eaton 3S550 UPS. This small UPS is designed like a big strip, it handles 550 VA and it provides a USB connection.

Thanks to Network UPS Tools, this UPS is very easy to manage when connected to a Debian server.

Installation procedure in a non GUI environment is quite simple, but it involves a certain number of steps that should be carefully followed.

So, this article explains a step-by-step installation procedure of a Eaton UPS connected to a Debian Jessie headless server. If followed carefully, you should get your UPS fully integrated to your server, with an automatic shutdown when your UPS battery is becoming too low during a power cut.

This procedure should be applicable to any Ubuntu or Debian-based server.

1. Installation

First step is to install Network UPS Tools package :

2. Connect your UPS

Once your UPS is powered and connected to a USB port of your server, it should be detected :

We can notice that UPS is from MGE, former name of Eaton.

This command has given us the Vendor ID and Device ID of your USB connected UPS.

• Vendor ID : 0463
• Device ID : ffff

These important values will be used later in the installation procedure.

3. Configuration

Its now time to declare the Eaton UPS to nut daemon.

As the UPS is connected via USB, we wil use the USB driver.

This is done by adding a new section to /etc/nut/ups.conf to declare your UPS.

4. Start USB driver

Now that your UPS is declared to nut, it's time to start the USB UPS driver upsdrvctl :

This doesn't look good.

Error comes from the fact that nut daemon is running as nut user, which is not allowed to access USB interface (accessible only by root).

The best way to allow nut user to access the UPS USB device, is to declare a new udev rules.

The udev rule will use the Vendor ID and Device ID of your USB UPS.

Il will allow accounts from nut group to access the USB device with 660 permission rather than 666, since that should be sufficient and more secure.

To declare the rule, you just have to create /etc/udev/rules.d/90-nut-ups.rules :

You now need to restart udev for the rule to become operational :

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You need to disconnect and reconnect the USB cable to remount it with the new udev rule.

You should now be able to start upsdrvctl UPS driver without error.

5. Configure NUT mode

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nut can run in different mode according to your configuration :

• none (default)
• standalone
• netserver
• netclient

We must configure nut in standalone mode as it will address a local only configuration, with 1 UPS protecting the local system. This will start the 3 nut layers (driver, upsd and upsmon).

This standalone mode is declared in /etc/nut/nut.conf :

Next step is to configure upsd and upsmon :

• upsd communicates with the UPS driver that we just started
• upsmon communicates with upsd and actually shuts down the machine in the event of a power failure.

Why this extra level of indirection ?

Just because multiple instances of upsmon can be started on different machines and communicate with a single uspd in charge of the physical UPS device.

6. Configure UPS daemon

As upsd will be used locally on the server, we will configure it to listen on localhost and default port 3493. Configuration will be done for IPv4 and IPv6.

Edit or create configuration file /etc/nut/upsd.conf :

Next, we should create a local upsmonitor user for upsd.

It will be used by upsmon to interact with upsd.

This local user is declared in /etc/nut/upsd.users :

Replace YOUR_PASSWORD with a real password.

7. Configure UPS monitor

Once user has been declared in upsd, it should be declared to upsmon.

This declaration is done thru /etc/nut/upsmon.conf :

eaton is the name you've given to your UPS in /etc/nut/ups.conf and YOUR_PASSWORD with the password you set in /etc/nut/upsd.users.

If you want, you can also change the shutdown command that will be used when the UPS battery will go below a minimum level.

8. Secure configuration

Since these UPS configuration files contain sensitive data (you can shutdown the server …), we should fix the permissions to allow only root user and nut group to access them.

9. Test connection

Everything should now be in place to test your UPS connectivity.

To test it, you just need to start upsd daemon and to inquire your UPS status with upsc client.

Now that service is running, you can reboot your debian computer.

After next reboot, service nut-server should have been started.

You should be able to access your UPS data.

Your Debian server is now protected.

As soon as your UPS charge will go under 20%, a shutdown signal will be issued to your server.

Hope it helps !

In addition to the extensive features already included in LanSafe v. 5, the new v. 6 release introduces support for new Operating System platforms such as Windows Server 2008, VMware and Linux systems. In addition v. 6 supports both Powerware and Pulsar (formerly MGE Office Protection Systems) product series.

LanSafe v. 6 delivers comprehensive power management capabilities including graceful, remote shutdown of UPS systems and network monitoring tools via serial, USB, and network connectivity options.

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• Sequential shutdown of UPS powered computers and applications prevents data loss and corruption in case of prolonged power failure
• Exclusive Stealth Mode Operation enables LanSafe v. 6 to run in the background without visual traces
• 3-D PowerScope and ControlRoom views eliminate the guesswork from UPS metering and status information
• History View provides around-the-clock visual representation of the system event log in calendar format
• Automatic Regional Settings Detection enables date, time, temperature and UPS receptacle graphics to be automatically selected according to the operating system's regional settings

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