officialdoughboy
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- Jun 6, 2018
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I'm doing an upgrade to my home network and did a lot of research and settled on FreeNAS. I got my equipment and everything was going well until I got to the UPS setup.
I settled on a Tripp Lite SMART1500RM2U, which is on the NUT compatibility list. Last night I plugged it in to my FreeNAS box using USB, and ran into the dreaded USB disconnect issue. No matter what configuration, USB port I used, it will not connect to FreeNAS. I also just upgraded my PFSense hardware (Dell R210) and figured since they both have NUT compatibility, I would just plug the UPS into PFSense and set it up as Master and FreeNAS as a slave in NUT. And the same thing happened, nothing but communication errors. Research tells me that FreeBSD and Tripp Lite are tricky to get working.
My thoughts are to get a smaller UPS and hook it only up to the PFSense box, leave the Tripp Lite connected to the rest of my equipment. Set PFSense as Master and FreeNAS as slave. Will this work or should I just look to replace the Tripp Lite wholesale?
And beyond that can someone recommend a UPS that is known to work? I'm thinking APC, but I've read older ones are better, as newer APCs use proprietary drivers.
Thanks in advance for any answers.
I settled on a Tripp Lite SMART1500RM2U, which is on the NUT compatibility list. Last night I plugged it in to my FreeNAS box using USB, and ran into the dreaded USB disconnect issue. No matter what configuration, USB port I used, it will not connect to FreeNAS. I also just upgraded my PFSense hardware (Dell R210) and figured since they both have NUT compatibility, I would just plug the UPS into PFSense and set it up as Master and FreeNAS as a slave in NUT. And the same thing happened, nothing but communication errors. Research tells me that FreeBSD and Tripp Lite are tricky to get working.
My thoughts are to get a smaller UPS and hook it only up to the PFSense box, leave the Tripp Lite connected to the rest of my equipment. Set PFSense as Master and FreeNAS as slave. Will this work or should I just look to replace the Tripp Lite wholesale?
And beyond that can someone recommend a UPS that is known to work? I'm thinking APC, but I've read older ones are better, as newer APCs use proprietary drivers.
Thanks in advance for any answers.