Install Eaton UPS management software on PVE

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wonkyponky

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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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wonkyponky said:
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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@wonkyponky @floh8
sorry to warm up this old thread, but maybe one of you can help me ...

I'm trying to set up my Eaton with my proxmox server and I have 2 questions:

1. I finally managed to install the Eaton IPP software. Therefor I also had to create a new user.
@wonkyponky
You wrote you did this via script which takes care of the setup of the user. Where can I find this script?
Maybe that is connected to my 2nd point?

2. I build a script for shutdown all my LXCs, VMs and the host itself in case of an ups event.
The script works when started manually. But I don' succed to execute it from my Eaton. There nothing happens.

I would be thankful for any idea. Thanks for your help.
 
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