ML
    • Recent
    • Categories
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Register
    • Login

    Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring

    IT Discussion
    8
    28
    7.0k
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @BRRABill
      last edited by

      @BRRABill said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

      I have a non-networked Eaton.

      What tools does Eaton provide?

      BRRABillB 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • BRRABillB
        BRRABill @scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        @scottalanmiller

        Well, the software that came with this UPS is Windows only.

        But perhaps something else will work.

        They were really trying to push the higher end units to get the additional software and ability to install a network card. But we had a thread back in the day saying that probably could be worked around.

        T 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • T
          tiagom @BRRABill
          last edited by

          @BRRABill Looks like eaton supports xenserver

          http://powerquality.eaton.com/Products-services/Power-Management/Software-Drivers/Intelligent-PM.asp

          Youtube Video

          BRRABillB 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
          • BRRABillB
            BRRABill @tiagom
            last edited by

            @tiagom said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

            @BRRABill Looks like eaton supports xenserver

            http://powerquality.eaton.com/Products-services/Power-Management/Software-Drivers/Intelligent-PM.asp

            Youtube Video

            Not sure that works with my UPS. (The 5S.)

            The software is one of the selling points of the higher level UPSes.

            @scottalanmiller are any of the Eaton peeps still here?

            scottalanmillerS T travisdh1T 3 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @BRRABill
              last edited by

              @BRRABill said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

              @scottalanmiller are any of the Eaton peeps still here?

              Haven't seen them, maybe @Minion-Queen knows?

              BRRABillB 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • BRRABillB
                BRRABill @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

                @BRRABill said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

                @scottalanmiller are any of the Eaton peeps still here?

                Haven't seen them, maybe @Minion-Queen knows?

                Yeah, me either, which is why I asked.

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • T
                  tiagom @BRRABill
                  last edited by tiagom

                  @BRRABill said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

                  rts xenserver

                  According to this

                  http://lit.powerware.com/ll_download.asp?file=IPSS-UPS-Connectivity-Compatibility-List-June2016.pdf

                  it does over usb.

                  Nope im wrong.Only UPS Companion is supported.

                  BRRABillB 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • BRRABillB
                    BRRABill @tiagom
                    last edited by

                    @tiagom said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

                    @BRRABill said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

                    rts xenserver

                    According to this

                    http://lit.powerware.com/ll_download.asp?file=IPSS-UPS-Connectivity-Compatibility-List-June2016.pdf

                    it does over usb.

                    Nope im wrong.Only UPS Companion is supported.

                    Yes, exactly the issue.

                    T 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • T
                      tiagom @BRRABill
                      last edited by

                      @BRRABill what about using http://networkupstools.org/index.html

                      It supports the eaton 5s
                      http://networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html?manufacturer=Eaton&model=3S

                      It should be in the Epel repo.

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • travisdh1T
                        travisdh1 @BRRABill
                        last edited by

                        @BRRABill We ended up with a 5C I think, great stuff for the price. So long as you can get it connected (usb/serial), you should be able to use apcupsd to monitor it. Eaton does have software available for Linux, but the one I installed is only monitoring and a GUI (I have it installed on one of the virtual machines.)

                        M 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • M
                          mazterjedi @travisdh1
                          last edited by

                          So, both of my UPS's have both USB and serial ports. If I were to connect the UPS's to the xenservers via serial, is there a way to establish comms? What about a USB to IP converter? My concern is that although I think I would be able to tell the VMs to shut down in a power failure, how would I tell the servers themselves? I know a power failure is a sure way to hose a RAID array. Since the array was created by Xen, it is fully software managed.

                          DashrenderD travisdh1T scottalanmillerS 3 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @mazterjedi
                            last edited by

                            @mazterjedi said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

                            So, both of my UPS's have both USB and serial ports. If I were to connect the UPS's to the xenservers via serial, is there a way to establish comms? What about a USB to IP converter? My concern is that although I think I would be able to tell the VMs to shut down in a power failure, how would I tell the servers themselves? I know a power failure is a sure way to hose a RAID array. Since the array was created by Xen, it is fully software managed.

                            You're running a local software only RAID? why not RAID controller?

                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • travisdh1T
                              travisdh1 @mazterjedi
                              last edited by

                              @mazterjedi You can have one of the vm's run

                              ssh user@xenserverip sudo poweroff
                              

                              XenServer will take the time to gracefully power down all the VMs currently running on the host. So long as you don't just force power off on the host, it should work.

                              The only problems I've had with this are guests that don't shut down properly. Like @scottalanmiller says, it's important to reboot just as a test if nothing else.

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @mazterjedi
                                last edited by

                                @mazterjedi said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

                                So, both of my UPS's have both USB and serial ports. If I were to connect the UPS's to the xenservers via serial, is there a way to establish comms? What about a USB to IP converter? My concern is that although I think I would be able to tell the VMs to shut down in a power failure, how would I tell the servers themselves? I know a power failure is a sure way to hose a RAID array. Since the array was created by Xen, it is fully software managed.

                                Yup, Linux can read comms just fine and anything that Linux can see, the Dom0 (XenServer control) can see. It would be a problem if you wanted the VMs to see this. But not a problem for XenServer to see it.

                                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403
                                  last edited by

                                  Obviously HA functionality which would start the VM's has to be disabled as well.

                                  Otherwise you'll end up in a loop with the system trying to power off the VM's until your UPS loses power.

                                  BRRABillB 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                  • BRRABillB
                                    BRRABill @DustinB3403
                                    last edited by

                                    @DustinB3403 said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

                                    Obviously HA functionality which would start the VM's has to be disabled as well.

                                    Otherwise you'll end up in a loop with the system trying to power off the VM's until your UPS loses power.

                                    That would be bad, mmmmm'k.

                                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                    • 1
                                    • 2
                                    • 2 / 2
                                    • First post
                                      Last post