TRIPPLITE_USB(8) NUT Manual TRIPPLITE_USB(8)NAMEtripplite_usb - Driver for older Tripp Lite USB UPSes (not PDC HID)
SYNOPSIStripplite_usb-h
tripplite_usb-a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
This driver should work with older Tripp Lite UPSes which are detected
as USB HID-class devices, but are not true HID Power-Device Class
devices. So far, the devices supported by tripplite_usb have product ID
0001, and the newer units (such as those with "LCD" in the model name)
with product ID 2001 require the usbhid-ups(8) driver instead. Please
report success or failure to the nut-upsuser mailing list. A key piece
of information is the protocol number, returned in ups.debug.0. Also,
be sure to turn on debugging (-DDD) for more informative log messages.
If your Tripp Lite UPS uses a serial port, you may wish to investigate
the tripplite(8) or tripplite_su(8) driver.
This driver has been tested with the following models:
· INTERNETOFFICE700
· OMNIVS1000
· OMNIVS1500XL (some warnings)
· SMART700USB
· SMART1500RM2U
· SMART2200RMXL2U
· SMART3000RM2U
If you have used Tripp Lite’s PowerAlert software to connect to your
UPS, there is a good chance that tripplite_usb will work if it uses one
of the following protocols:
· Protocol 0004
· Protocol 1001
· Protocol 2001
· Protocol 3003
On the other hand, if the web page for your UPS on the Tripp-Lite
website says "HID-compliant USB port also enables direct integration
with built-in power management and auto-shutdown features of Windows
and MAC OS X", then you should use the usbhid-ups(8) driver instead.
EXTRA ARGUMENTS
This driver supports the following optional settings in the ups.conf(5)
file (or with -x on the command line):
offdelay
This setting controls the delay between receiving the "kill"
command (-k) and actually cutting power to the computer.
bus
This regular expression is used to match the USB bus (as seen in
/proc/bus/usb/devices or lsusb(8); including leading zeroes).
product
A regular expression to match the product string for the UPS. This
would be useful if you have two different Tripp Lite UPS models
connected to the system, and you want to be sure that you shut them
down in the correct order.
Note
This regex is matched against the full USB product string as seen
in lsusb(8). The ups.model in the upsc(1) output only lists the
name after TRIPP LITE, so to match a SMART2200RMXL2U, you could use
the regex .*SMART2200.*.
productid
The productid is a regular expression which matches the UPS PID as
four hexadecimal digits. So far, the only devices that work with
this driver have PID 0001.
serial
It does not appear that these particular Tripp Lite UPSes use the
iSerial descriptor field to return a serial number. However, in
case your unit does, you may specify it here.
For more information on regular expressions, see regex(7)RUNTIME VARIABLES
ups.delay.shutdown
This variable is the same as the offdelay setting, but it can be
changed at runtime by upsrw(8).
ups.id
Some SMARTPRO models feature an ID that can be set and retrieved.
If your UPS supports this feature, this variable will be listed in
the output of upsrw(8).
outlet.1.switch
Some Tripp Lite units have a switchable outlet (usually outlet #1)
which can be turned on and off by writing 1 or 0, respectively, to
outlet.1.switch with upsrw(8). If your unit has multiple switchable
outlets, substitute the outlet number for 1 in the variable name.
Be sure to test this first - there is no other way to be certain
that the number used by the driver matches the label on the unit.
KNOWN ISSUES AND BUGS
The driver was not developed with any official documentation from Tripp
Lite, so certain events may confuse the driver. If you observe any
strange behavior, please re-run the driver with -DDD to increase the
verbosity.
So far, the Tripp Lite UPSes do not seem to have a serial number or
other globally unique identifier accessible through USB. Thus, when
monitoring several Tripp Lite USB UPSes, you should use either the bus
or product configuration options to uniquely specify which UPS a given
driver instance should control.
For instance, you can easily monitor an OMNIVS1000 and a SMART1500RM2U
at the same time, since they have different USB Product ID strings. If
you have two SMART1500RM2U units, you would have to find which USB bus
number each unit is on (via lsusb(8)), which may result in ambiguities
if the available USB ports are on the same bus.
Some of the SMART*2U models have an ID number, but because this ID is
not exposed as a USB string descriptor, there is no easy way to use
this ID to distinguish between multiple UPS units on a single machine.
The UPS would need to be claimed by the driver in order to read this
ID.
AUTHOR
Written by Charles Lepple, based on the tripplite(8) driver by Rickard
E. (Rik) Faith and Nicholas Kain. Please do not email the authors
directly - use the nut-upsdev mailing list.
A Tripp Lite OMNIVS1000 was graciously donated to the NUT project by
Bradley Feldman (http://www.bradleyloritheo.com)
SEE ALSO
The core driver:
nutupsdrv(8)
Other drivers for Tripp-Lite hardware:
tripplite(8), tripplitesu(8), usbhid-ups(8)
Other tools:
regex(7), lsusb(8)INTERNET RESOURCES
The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.networkupstools.org/
Network UPS Tools 08/07/2012 TRIPPLITE_USB(8)
