I just installed an APC Network Management Card in my UPS and I think I have set the SNMP settings correctly in the card’s web interface. Public read with host 0.0.0.0 should do it.
In my FreePBX, 14.0.13.4, under the UPS settings, in Sys Admin, I have tried almost every combination using Ethernet, setting Ethernet Cable, SmartUPS, adding the UPS IP address of 192.168.0.25 with port :161, I tried, the default port that is “suggested” or shown in the hint, and also tried port :6547 and port :3052, which the APC network shutdown software uses with the UPS.
Using apcaccess status I always see, Status; ComLost.
Does anyone have any experience with FreePBX and the APC Network Management card? Or, any hints, things to try, etc?
Thanks in advance for any help. I know I am missing something pretty simple.
@alscorp… thank you for the info. I will try later today. I did not know that a username and password might be needed. I was thinking I needed just a port number.
@ alsicorp… Tony, thank-you for all the info. No matter what I try, I still get COMMLOST under status when I do an apcaccess status from the CLI.
Would you be so kind as to post the results of an apcaccess status?
In some threads using SNMP as UPS Type, (you have to manually edit the conf file as FreePBX doesn’t allow that in the GUI), it shows, when allegedly working, this same status of no communication.
Alrighty, if anyone is interested, I got it!
The password is actually the APC Powerchute authentication phrase and one must add your FreePBX IP to the Powerchute clients in the UPS. Lastly, the default passphrase is “admin user phrase” and white space is not universally liked. I changed the passphrase using at least 16 characters and used ‘-’ the dash or minus sign.