I am trying to move from the HA supervised to HAOS, but trying to understand the replacement for the APC UPS add-on since you can’t install apcupsd in HAOS. My current monitoring was with the APC UPS integration and it connected to the APC management card in my UPS via network. I am not using any USB connections for monitoring.
My understanding is you can use the Network UPS Tools (NUT) integration, but a prerequisite is you must have a NUT server running somewhere else and in addition to the HAOS server?
I hope this isn’t the case, since I am hoping I can just have my HAOS server communicate with the UPS network mgmt card to pull UPS info off of.
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Yes, luckily for you, in HAOS it’s as simple as going to the Addons page and installing the NUT Addon before installing the integration
Thank you for replying. Is the Network UPS Tools “add-on” you’re showing the NUT server? Can both the server and the NUT integration be installed on the HAOS environment?
Yep. Addons are essentially virtual servers which run alongside HA on the same hardware.
The Integration handles the communication between the NUT server & the HA server.
You need to install both in order to see your ups data
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Has anyone been successful using the latest HAOS (using docker) with an APC UPS c/w network management card (ie: AP9630), and SNMP v1 or v3?
I’ve tried so many configuration examples… having issues getting them to recognize settings within the configuration. Some lines you can add, and when you save it, you see no errors, and then later, if you re-enter the configuration, some of the configuration lines are gone… like setting the community string for v1, or with v3 setting authProtocol or authPassword.
I think I could really use some examples from anyone who has done this configuration with the APC network management card, and snmp 1 or 3.
Thank you in advance!
Ok I finally got this mostly working (SNMP v3 but with no auth yet)… and to find the right syntax for the server device configuration file was a PITA.
The next issue I had was getting the NUT client to talk to the server and thanks to another post, that said to take the hostname (a0d7b954-nut) from the NUT server, and replace “localhost” with it on the NUT Client side. Leave the port as default, and enter your credentials previously added to the NUT server.
None of this was intuitive in my opinion… documentation varied so much across my searches. Most were using a shell account and opening conf files, which you can’t do in HAOS now. Anyways… now I have to get the syntax working so I can use a password on the SNMP v3 UPS side to make it more secure.
Ok I got v3 working with auth and priv.
Ensure if you have a firewall between your HA server and the UPS that you allowed port 161 (SNMP).
