{"id":1177,"date":"2013-09-10T18:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2013-09-10T18:32:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:32:14","slug":"apc-back-ups-es-500-with-synology-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"APC Back-UPS ES 500 with Synology NAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NAS is a Synology DS411+II.  The UPS is an APC Back-UPS ES 500 connected to the NAS with the supplied USB cable.<br \/>\nWith the UPS connected to the NAS, go to the NAS&#8217; web page (port 5000).  From the top left menu button, select &#8220;System Information&#8221;. On the General tab, under External Devices, you should see the UPS.  From there, go to Control Panel, select Power, select the UPS tab and select Enable UPS support.<\/p>\n<p>The following instructions are based on the Synology forum post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/forum.synology.com\/enu\/viewtopic.php?f=27&#038;t=19378\">Success with DS-209 and APCupsd UPS Monitoring<\/a>&#8220;.  Although the NAS can see the UPS and gets status from it, I was unable to get apcupsd to work.<\/p>\n<p><del datetime=\"2013-09-10T21:41:58+00:00\">To install the monitoring deamon, log in to the NAS as root:<br \/>\n<code>ipkg install apcupsd<\/code><br \/>\nEdit the file <code>\/opt\/etc\/apcupsd\/apcupsd.conf<\/code>.<br \/>\nIf you have more than one UPS, set the UPSNAME to keep them straight.  This is optional.  Change UPSCABLE to usb.  Change UPSTYPE to usb and set DEVICE to blank.<br \/>\n<code>mkdir -p \/opt\/var\/lock<br \/>\nmkdir -p \/opt\/var\/log<br \/>\ntouch \/opt\/var\/log\/apcupsd.events<br \/>\ntouch \/opt\/var\/log\/apcupsd.status<\/code><\/del><\/p>\n<p><del datetime=\"2013-09-10T21:41:58+00:00\">To test:  <code>apcupsd -b -d5 -T -f \/opt\/etc\/apcupsd\/apcupsd.conf<\/code>.  Open another shell to the NAS ans root and run <code>apctest<\/code>.<\/del><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NAS is a Synology DS411+II. The UPS is an APC Back-UPS ES 500 connected to the NAS with the supplied USB cable. With the UPS connected to the NAS, go to the NAS&#8217; web page (port 5000). From the top left menu button, select &#8220;System Information&#8221;. On the General tab, under External Devices, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}