Install Eaton UPS management software on PVE

wonkyponky

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Nov 8, 2023
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Hi out there,
as I want my Proxmox Server to gracefully shutdown in case of a longer power outage I installed Eaton Intelligent Power Protector (Deb./Ub. version) onto the machine. Unfortunately it won't just run out of the box because it fails with installing a dedicated user for the process. Of course, not finding its user, the process is unable to start.

I installed the software on another Debian machine with Desktop Environment. Works fine - user is there. Another headless Debian system shows the same error, though. But there - if I just define the root user in its config file to run the process, it starts up fine.

So this question is in part specific to PVE - what would you recommend? I could
- create a user manually and see if it works out
- just utilize the root user which might be bad practice

But in general terms - do you think using this software would be OK? There might be another USB driver to make the system connect to the UPS but I would miss the configuration features. Configuring the software is done via Web GUI on port 4679/4680.

Thanks for your input!
 
Seems like it's fixed.
In the installer I found a script which takes care of the setup of the user. I ran the commands manually and the user was created fine so the process now works as expected. I guess the reason the script failed originally was a permissions issue. When I tried to run the script from file it gave cmd not found ..
Up until now I don't see any complications with PVE.
 
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