One of the UPS’s in my home lab is a Tripplite 1500VALCD. I wanted to be able to monitor/manage the UPS via RHEL/Centos however Tripplite no longer makes a Linux version of Power Alert Local for Linux.  Instead I decided to use Nut.

After connecting a USB cable between my RHEL server and my UPS, I needed to install lsusb to verify that it was detected properly.
# yum -y install usbutils

I was then able to verify connectivity

# lsusb | grep -i trip
Bus 003 Device 123: ID 09ae:2012 Tripp Lite

Nut can be found in the EPEL repo which I needed to install.

#wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
# yum localinstall epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Then install Nut.

# yum -y install nut.x86_64

I then ran nut-monitor to detect the proper config for Nut.

[nutdev1]
driver = “usbhid-ups”
port = “auto”
vendorid = “09AE”
productid = “2012”
product = “Tripp Lite UPS”
vendor = “Tripp Lite”
bus = “003”

Use the output from the above command to populate /etc/ups/ups.conf. In the example below I I only changed the name of the device.

[tripplite]
driver = “usbhid-ups”
port = “auto”
vendorid = “09AE”
productid = “2012”
product = “Tripp Lite UPS”
vendor = “Tripp Lite”
bus = “003”

I then started and enabled the following services.

# systemctl start nut-server
# systemctl enable nut-server

I was then able to run upsc and query the ups.

# upsc tripplite
battery.charge: 100
battery.runtime: 620
battery.type: PbAC
battery.voltage: 26.3
battery.voltage.nominal: 24.0
device.mfr: Tripp Lite
device.model: Tripp Lite UPS
device.type: ups
driver.name: usbhid-ups
driver.parameter.bus: 003
driver.parameter.pollfreq: 30
driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
driver.parameter.port: auto
driver.parameter.product: Tripp Lite UPS
driver.parameter.productid: 2012
driver.parameter.vendor: Tripp Lite
driver.parameter.vendorid: 09AE
driver.version: 2.7.2
driver.version.data: TrippLite HID 0.81
driver.version.internal: 0.38
input.frequency: 59.8
input.voltage: 112.2
input.voltage.nominal: 120
output.frequency.nominal: 60
output.voltage: 112.2
output.voltage.nominal: 120
ups.beeper.status: disabled
ups.delay.shutdown: 20
ups.load: 48
ups.mfr: Tripp Lite
ups.model: Tripp Lite UPS
ups.power: 0.0
ups.power.nominal: 1500
ups.productid: 2012
ups.status: OL
ups.test.result: Done and error
ups.timer.reboot: 65535
ups.timer.shutdown: 65535
ups.vendorid: 09ae
ups.watchdog.status: 0

Next I plan to explore nut-monitor, but for know I can at least query the UPS. Apparently the battery is dead.