I installed NUT and the set of scripts from revpol.com. They work as advertised, but I'm looking to have the data displayed on the page for the respective UPS - rather than the Xymon server.
Any thoughts or hints?
Thanks.
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On 08/12/13 19:59, John D. Alexander wrote:
I installed NUT and the set of scripts from revpol.com. They work as advertised, but I’m looking to have the data displayed on the page for the respective UPS – rather than the Xymon server.
Any thoughts or hints?
Hi John The Xymon NUT scripts page on our website sees a lot of activity. Glad to know that they are actively in use in the wild. :)
The tests are reported back to the Xymon server as the machine that is running the test.
You can simply override the $MACHINE variable at the end of the script like so:
$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR "$DATE"
change to:
$BB $BBDISP "status ups-a.$COLUMN $COLOR "$DATE"
Or set MACHINE="ups-a" at the top of the script where the other variables are assigned.
I am also wondering if you can set an environment variable explicitly in the tasks.cfg file by doing something like so:
CMD MACHINE="ups-a"; export ups-a; $XYMONHOME/ext/xymon_nut_ups-status.sh
If this syntax works, then you could leave the scripts unmodified and have just one set for any number of UPSes being tested. Never tried that though.
Then, in the UPS sub page section of the hosts file:
subpage example-com_upses UPSes title Example Dot Com UPSes group-only ups-status|in-voltage|out-voltage|ups-load|bat-charge|bat-voltage 0.0.0.0 ups-a.example.com # CLIENT:ups-a noconn
Funny thing is, I always wanted to do exactly that same thing but never spent the time to look into it. Your questions prompted me to spend the 20 minutes to test this and verify that it does indeed also "work as advertised." :)
Maybe I will even find the time to update the website with this new information. :)
Hope this helps!
-- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/ -- Not responsible for anything below this line --
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the reply. Your scripts are clever. I may combine them into one script for ease of use.
I have individual pages for each ups (they are network connected SmartUPS 3000) and just ping tests right now. It would be best if the UPS data were to go in each UPS page. That seems to be a challenge - at least with my level of Xymon knowledge.
It would be useful to be able to initiate a custom test from hosts.cfg
Has anyone done something like this?
John Alexander
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Bill Arlofski Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:05 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring UPS
On 08/12/13 19:59, John D. Alexander wrote:
I installed NUT and the set of scripts from revpol.com. They work as advertised, but I'm looking to have the data displayed on the page for the respective UPS - rather than the Xymon server.
Any thoughts or hints?
Hi John The Xymon NUT scripts page on our website sees a lot of activity. Glad to know that they are actively in use in the wild. :)
The tests are reported back to the Xymon server as the machine that is running the test.
You can simply override the $MACHINE variable at the end of the script like so:
$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR "$DATE"
change to:
$BB $BBDISP "status ups-a.$COLUMN $COLOR "$DATE"
Or set MACHINE="ups-a" at the top of the script where the other variables are assigned.
I am also wondering if you can set an environment variable explicitly in the tasks.cfg file by doing something like so:
CMD MACHINE="ups-a"; export ups-a; $XYMONHOME/ext/xymon_nut_ups-status.sh
If this syntax works, then you could leave the scripts unmodified and have just one set for any number of UPSes being tested. Never tried that though.
Then, in the UPS sub page section of the hosts file:
subpage example-com_upses UPSes title Example Dot Com UPSes group-only ups-status|in-voltage|out-voltage|ups-load|bat-charge|bat-voltage 0.0.0.0 ups-a.example.com # CLIENT:ups-a noconn
Funny thing is, I always wanted to do exactly that same thing but never spent the time to look into it. Your questions prompted me to spend the 20 minutes to test this and verify that it does indeed also "work as advertised." :)
Maybe I will even find the time to update the website with this new information. :)
Hope this helps!
-- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/ -- Not responsible for anything below this line -- _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Hello,
I have individual pages for each ups (they are network connected SmartUPS 3000) and just ping tests right now. It would be best if the UPS data were to go in each UPS page. That seems to be a challenge - at least with my level of Xymon knowledge. ..... On 08/12/13 19:59, John D. Alexander wrote:
I installed NUT and the set of scripts from revpol.com. They work as advertised, but I'm looking to have the data displayed on the page for the respective UPS - rather than the Xymon server.
Any thoughts or hints? We monitor a group of APC (smart)UPS-es using Devmon, thus using SNMP to retrieve the status information from the UPS. If using Devmon is an option, I can send you a template to monitor the UPS.
Kind regards, Wim Nelis.
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Hello,
I have individual pages for each ups (they are network connected SmartUPS 3000) and just ping tests right now. It would be best if the UPS data were to go in each UPS page. That seems to be a challenge - at least with my level of Xymon knowledge. ..... On 08/12/13 19:59, John D. Alexander wrote:
I installed NUT and the set of scripts from revpol.com. They work as advertised, but I'm looking to have the data displayed on the page for the respective UPS - rather than the Xymon server.
Any thoughts or hints? We monitor a group of APC (smart)UPS-es using Devmon, thus using SNMP to retrieve the status information from the UPS. If using Devmon is an option, I can send you a template to monitor the UPS.
I do this as well. It has been trouble free for the most part.
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John D. Alexander wrote:
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the reply. Your scripts are clever. I may combine them into one script for ease of use.
I have individual pages for each ups (they are network connected SmartUPS 3000) and just ping tests right now. It would be best if the UPS data were to go in each UPS page. That seems to be a challenge - at least with my level of Xymon knowledge.
It would be useful to be able to initiate a custom test from hosts.cfg
Has anyone done something like this?
John Alexander
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Bill Arlofski Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:05 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring UPS
On 08/12/13 19:59, John D. Alexander wrote:
I installed NUT and the set of scripts from revpol.com. They work as advertised, but I'm looking to have the data displayed on the page for the respective UPS - rather than the Xymon server.
Any thoughts or hints?
Hi John The Xymon NUT scripts page on our website sees a lot of activity. Glad to know that they are actively in use in the wild. :)
The tests are reported back to the Xymon server as the machine that is running the test.
You can simply override the $MACHINE variable at the end of the script like so:
$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR
"$DATE"change to:
$BB $BBDISP "status ups-a.$COLUMN $COLOR
"$DATE"Or set MACHINE="ups-a" at the top of the script where the other variables are assigned.
I am also wondering if you can set an environment variable explicitly in the tasks.cfg file by doing something like so:
CMD MACHINE="ups-a"; export ups-a; $XYMONHOME/ext/xymon_nut_ups-status.sh
If this syntax works, then you could leave the scripts unmodified and have just one set for any number of UPSes being tested. Never tried that though.
Then, in the UPS sub page section of the hosts file:
subpage example-com_upses UPSes title Example Dot Com UPSes group-only ups-status|in-voltage|out-voltage|ups-load|bat-charge|bat-voltage 0.0.0.0 ups-a.example.com # CLIENT:ups-a noconn
Funny thing is, I always wanted to do exactly that same thing but never spent the time to look into it. Your questions prompted me to spend the 20 minutes to test this and verify that it does indeed also "work as advertised." :)
Maybe I will even find the time to update the website with this new information. :)
Hope this helps!
-- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/
I have a script which I wrote last year, it might be very specific to my environment, but if you think it meets your needs and you wanted to give I can send you a copy.
################################################################################ This code scans hosts.cfg for entries marked with a 'ups' test and for each
of these it will attempt to connect to the APC UPS using apcaccess
to fetch the Attributes which it stores temporarily in
$XYMONTMP/${COLUMN}.${UPS}.run.${MyAPCDHost}.txt
It will scan the output and create 'xymon' commands to populate a
column (ups by default) for each entry.
The config file that it reads will look like so :-
[default] apcaccess=/sbin/apcaccess nisport=1234 temperaturewarn=40 batterychargewarn=90 datacollection=LINEV,LOADPCT,BCHARGE,TIMELEFT,ITEMP,BATTV
[UPS-1] hostname=xxxxx
[UPS-2] hostname=yyyyy
[UPS-3] hostname=zzzzz
Andy
Hi John,
I found a BB4 script called "apcsnmp.pl" - http://communities.quest.com/docs/DOC-5576
It didn't take much tweaking to get it to report various conditions...
Hosts file: xx.xx.xx.xx ups-host-name # volt apcload charge temp replace stest onbattery
This might do what you want?
Regards,
Carl
Carl Inglis Systems Administrator
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Hi Bill,
Thanks for the reply. Your scripts are clever. I may combine them into one script for ease of use.
I have individual pages for each ups (they are network connected SmartUPS 3000) and just ping tests right now. It would be best if the UPS data were to go in each UPS page. That seems to be a challenge - at least with my level of Xymon knowledge.
It would be useful to be able to initiate a custom test from hosts.cfg
Has anyone done something like this?
John Alexander
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Bill Arlofski Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:05 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring UPS
On 08/12/13 19:59, John D. Alexander wrote:
I installed NUT and the set of scripts from revpol.com. They work as advertised, but I'm looking to have the data displayed on the page for the respective UPS - rather than the Xymon server.
Any thoughts or hints?
Hi John The Xymon NUT scripts page on our website sees a lot of activity. Glad to know that they are actively in use in the wild. :)
The tests are reported back to the Xymon server as the machine that is running the test.
You can simply override the $MACHINE variable at the end of the script like so:
$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR "$DATE"
change to:
$BB $BBDISP "status ups-a.$COLUMN $COLOR "$DATE"
Or set MACHINE="ups-a" at the top of the script where the other variables are assigned.
I am also wondering if you can set an environment variable explicitly in the tasks.cfg file by doing something like so:
CMD MACHINE="ups-a"; export ups-a; $XYMONHOME/ext/xymon_nut_ups-status.sh
If this syntax works, then you could leave the scripts unmodified and have just one set for any number of UPSes being tested. Never tried that though.
Then, in the UPS sub page section of the hosts file:
subpage example-com_upses UPSes title Example Dot Com UPSes group-only ups-status|in-voltage|out-voltage|ups-load|bat-charge|bat-voltage 0.0.0.0 ups-a.example.com # CLIENT:ups-a noconn
Funny thing is, I always wanted to do exactly that same thing but never spent the time to look into it. Your questions prompted me to spend the 20 minutes to test this and verify that it does indeed also "work as advertised." :)
Maybe I will even find the time to update the website with this new information. :)
Hope this helps!
-- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/ -- Not responsible for anything below this line -- _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
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All,
The scripts that Bill Arlofski created were easily modified to do the trick. The challenge was tweaking the RRD part to get it to work. RRD seems to be really really finicky.
Right now they are launched via tasks.cfg, but I'm working on combining all the files into one. The next major change will be to modify the interval. RRD is the big challenge for that. UPS really should be polled more than every 5 minutes.
Thanks to all for the suggestions.
John Alexander
-----Original Message----- From: Carl Inglis [mailto:Carl.Inglis at rakon.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:48 AM To: John D. Alexander Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring UPS
Hi John,
I found a BB4 script called "apcsnmp.pl" - http://communities.quest.com/docs/DOC-5576
It didn't take much tweaking to get it to report various conditions...
Hosts file: xx.xx.xx.xx ups-host-name # volt apcload charge temp replace stest onbattery
This might do what you want?
Regards,
Carl
Carl Inglis Systems Administrator
Rakon UK Limited Dowsett House, Sadler Road, Lincoln LN6 3RS, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1522 812630 | Fax: +44 (0) 1522 812664 | Mob: +44 (0) 7786 552915 Carl.Inglis at rakon.com | www.rakon.com
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