NethServer UPS Server

[tessierp (Patrick)]

Hi,

There are 2 systems I consider critical on my network (at the moment). My main router Firewall running Nethserver and my QNAP NAS. In the event of a power failure, both must terminate gracefully.

I tried to set NETHSERVER UPS as my master which worked. The problem was having my QNAP server communicate with it as a UPS client. QNAP specifically wants to communicate with a service name “qnapups”. The Nethserver UPS service does not allow me to configure my own service and user names which prevents me from using that approach.

Fortunately for me, I fixed this issue by having my QNAP NAS Server set as Master and Nethserver as a client which worked.

It would be very useful that NethServer UPS allows us to define our own ups service name, username and password. Please consider adding this as a feature.

Thanks

[Andy_Wismer (André Wismer)]

@tessierp

Hi Patrick

I prefer using something completly independent for UPS Control (NUT Server) - I use a Raspberry PI for this, a 3B is more than sufficient!

This can shut down my NAS, ma Proxmox, my Firewall, my NethServer and anything else.

My 2 cents
Andy

[dnutan (Marc)]

Here’s a similar case (the inverse case):

Using QNAP NAS as UPS Server - change nut username

Thanks a lot. The package update was the missing part: Finally I did the following configuration for QNAP NAS Master: config setprop nut-server User admin config setprop nut-server Ups qnapups signal-event nethserver-nut-save Together with setting the right password in the nethservergui resulting in following configuration: [root@homeserver1 ups]# config show nut-server nut-server=service Device=auto Model= Password=123456 TCPPort=3493 Ups=qnapups User=admin acces…

Is not possible with the config parameters from the docs? (Just asking)

[tessierp (Patrick)]

@Andy_Wismer

Hi Patrick

I prefer using something completly independent for UPS Control (NUT Server) - I use a Raspberry PI for this, a 3B is more than sufficient!

This can shut down my NAS, ma Proxmox, my Firewall, my NethServer and anything else.

My 2 cents
Andy

Hey Andy,

Thanks it is a good idea but still, NethServer’s UPS Server should allow me to set my own username and password . At least for those, like me who currently want to use Nethserver as a UPS Server since I have nothing else I can use… Well I do, I have the work around, my NAS.

[tessierp (Patrick)]

@dnutan

Is not possible with the config parameters from the docs? (Just asking)

I have not investigated this in depth, I think there might be a way by editing some file. Through the User Interface it isn’t possible and in my view it should be.

[mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger)]

These commands should name it “qnapups” and apply the config (I didn’t test):

config setprop nut-server Ups qnapups
signal-event nethserver-nut-save

[tessierp (Patrick)]

@mrmarkuz

config setprop ups Ups qnapups
signal-event nethserver-nut-save

I’ll try that soon however, any chance this could be added to the UI to make it more convenient to change?