Proxomox - NUT Client.md

Proxomox - NUT Client - Synology NAS.md

Configuring Proxmox VE node as client for remote NUT server running on Synology NAS

Network UPS Tools User Manual

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• Use Shell on Proxmox Node to install NUT

apt-get install nut

• Edit /etc/nut/nut.conf using vi

vi /etc/nut/nut.conf

Modify the last line

x to delete existing characters

i to insert characters. ESC to go back to command mode

MODE=netclient

:q! to quit without saving if you fuck it up

:wq to save and quit when you get it right

• Edit /etc/nut/upsmon.conf using vi

vi /etc/nut/upsmon.conf

There won't be an existing line, look for the other MONITOR example comments and add after that.

MONITOR <system> <powervalue> <username> <password> ("master"|"slave")

<system> is [email protected]

monuser and secret are the default <username> <password> for a Synology NAS

<powervalue> is going to be 1 unless you have multiple UPS's

Since you're monitoring your NAS you are in slave mode

MONITOR [email protected] 1 monuser secret slave

• Enable monitoring services to start up with the machine:

sudo systemctl enable nut-client
sudo systemctl enable nut-monitor

• Start monitoring:

sudo systemctl start nut-client
sudo systemctl start nut-monitor

• Verify monitoring:

systemctl status nut-client
systemctl status nut-monitor

• To check UPS status: upsc <name>@<address> for remote UPS

upsc [email protected]

This will return a bunch of your UPS info if everything is working correctly

• Confirm clients are connecting:

upsc -c ups

thanks for this been looking for an easy way to do this.

Couple questions:

1. Will the upsmon autostart upon reboot or do you need to alter another file to do this?
2. How do you specify the time after a power outage where a shutdown will be initiated? either by time or power percentage?

1. Will the upsmon autostart upon reboot or do you need to alter another file to do this?

Nah you'll need to use systemctl to enable the services to automatically restart;

sudo systemctl enable nut-client
sudo systemctl enable nut-monitor

2. How do you specify the time after a power outage where a shutdown will be initiated? either by time or power percentage?

You specify this on your NAS (as that is what is connected to the UPS, and publishes the status to NUT clients/slaves)

Control Panel -> Hardware and Power -> UPS

There are options for time or low battery.

ah thats awesome! thank you for that been looking for a whole day on how to do this and stumbled across this page

Instead of calling upsmon start after configuration it might be better to start services right away:

sudo systemctl enable nut-client
sudo systemctl enable nut-monitor

sudo systemctl start nut-client
sudo systemctl start nut-monitor

systemctl status nut-client
systemctl status nut-monitor

Also connect to NUT server and check that clients are registering as connected
upsc -c ups

Instead of calling upsmon start after configuration it might be better to start services right away:

sudo systemctl enable nut-client
sudo systemctl enable nut-monitor

sudo systemctl start nut-client
sudo systemctl start nut-monitor

systemctl status nut-client
systemctl status nut-monitor

Also connect to NUT server and check that clients are registering as connected upsc -c ups

Nice, I've amended this now.

I did it all step by step!
But it doesn't work. It shows the data.