[Linux-HA] STONITH smart-ups 1500I

[Alan Robertson]

Etienne van Tonder wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Thank you for all your help it's much appreciated.
> 
> I have one more problem, I'm running apcupsd to monitor for power failures
> so that the system can shutdown cleanly. When I start the apcupsd daemon and
> execute:
> 
> stonith -t apcsmart -p "/dev/ttyS0 beta" -S
> 
> it returns with the following error:
> 
> CRITICAL **: APC_open_serialport: Could not lock tty /dev/ttyS0 (rc: -1)
> 
> If I stop apcupsd then it all works ok.

I think apcuspd will be very confused if you've configured your cabling 
correctly.

Because node A has to control node B's UPS and vice versa.

I know that the NUT tools can support such a configuration.


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