TRIPPLITE_USB(8)                  NUT Manual                  TRIPPLITE_USB(8)



NAME
       tripplite_usb - Driver for older Tripp Lite USB UPSes (not PDC HID)

SYNOPSIS
       tripplite_usb -h

       tripplite_usb -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]

SUPPORTED HARDWARE
       This driver should work with older Tripp Lite UPSes which are detected
       as USB HID-class devices, but are not true HID Power-Device Class
       devices. So far, the devices supported by tripplite_usb have product ID
       0001, and the newer units (such as those with "LCD" in the model name)
       with product ID 2001 require the usbhid-ups(8) driver instead. Please
       report success or failure to the nut-upsuser mailing list. A key piece
       of information is the protocol number, returned in ups.debug.0. Also,
       be sure to turn on debugging (-DDD) for more informative log messages.
       If your Tripp Lite UPS uses a serial port, you may wish to investigate
       the tripplite(8) or tripplite_su(8) driver.

       This driver has been tested with the following models:

       o   INTERNETOFFICE700

       o   OMNIVS1000

       o   OMNIVS1500XL (some warnings)

       o   SMART700USB

       o   SMART1500RM2U

       o   SMART2200RMXL2U

       o   SMART3000RM2U

       If you have used Tripp Lite's PowerAlert software to connect to your
       UPS, there is a good chance that tripplite_usb will work if it uses one
       of the following protocols:

       o   Protocol 0004

       o   Protocol 1001

       o   Protocol 2001

       o   Protocol 3003

       On the other hand, if the web page for your UPS on the Tripp-Lite
       website says "HID-compliant USB port also enables direct integration
       with built-in power management and auto-shutdown features of Windows
       and MAC OS X", then you should use the usbhid-ups(8) driver instead.

EXTRA ARGUMENTS
       This driver supports the following optional settings in the ups.conf(5)
       file (or with -x on the command line):

       offdelay
           This setting controls the delay between receiving the "kill"
           command (-k) and actually cutting power to the computer.

       bus
           This regular expression is used to match the USB bus (as seen in
           /proc/bus/usb/devices or lsusb(8); including leading zeroes).

       product
           A regular expression to match the product string for the UPS. This
           would be useful if you have two different Tripp Lite UPS models
           connected to the system, and you want to be sure that you shut them
           down in the correct order.

           Note
           This regex is matched against the full USB product string as seen
           in lsusb(8). The ups.model in the upsc(1) output only lists the
           name after TRIPP LITE, so to match a SMART2200RMXL2U, you could use
           the regex .*SMART2200.*.

       productid
           The productid is a regular expression which matches the UPS PID as
           four hexadecimal digits. So far, the only devices that work with
           this driver have PID 0001.

       serial
           It does not appear that these particular Tripp Lite UPSes use the
           iSerial descriptor field to return a serial number. However, in
           case your unit does, you may specify it here.

       For more information on regular expressions, see regex(7)

RUNTIME VARIABLES
       ups.delay.shutdown
           This variable is the same as the offdelay setting, but it can be
           changed at runtime by upsrw(8).

       ups.id
           Some SMARTPRO models feature an ID that can be set and retrieved.
           If your UPS supports this feature, this variable will be listed in
           the output of upsrw(8).

       outlet.1.switch
           Some Tripp Lite units have a switchable outlet (usually outlet #1)
           which can be turned on and off by writing 1 or 0, respectively, to
           outlet.1.switch with upsrw(8). If your unit has multiple switchable
           outlets, substitute the outlet number for 1 in the variable name.
           Be sure to test this first - there is no other way to be certain
           that the number used by the driver matches the label on the unit.

KNOWN ISSUES AND BUGS
       The driver was not developed with any official documentation from Tripp
       Lite, so certain events may confuse the driver. If you observe any
       strange behavior, please re-run the driver with -DDD to increase the
       verbosity.

       So far, the Tripp Lite UPSes do not seem to have a serial number or
       other globally unique identifier accessible through USB. Thus, when
       monitoring several Tripp Lite USB UPSes, you should use either the bus
       or product configuration options to uniquely specify which UPS a given
       driver instance should control.

       For instance, you can easily monitor an OMNIVS1000 and a SMART1500RM2U
       at the same time, since they have different USB Product ID strings. If
       you have two SMART1500RM2U units, you would have to find which USB bus
       number each unit is on (via lsusb(8)), which may result in ambiguities
       if the available USB ports are on the same bus.

       Some of the SMART*2U models have an ID number, but because this ID is
       not exposed as a USB string descriptor, there is no easy way to use
       this ID to distinguish between multiple UPS units on a single machine.
       The UPS would need to be claimed by the driver in order to read this
       ID.

AUTHOR
       Written by Charles Lepple, based on the tripplite(8) driver by Rickard
       E. (Rik) Faith and Nicholas Kain. Please do not email the authors
       directly - use the nut-upsdev mailing list.

       A Tripp Lite OMNIVS1000 was graciously donated to the NUT project by
       Bradley Feldman (http://www.bradleyloritheo.com)

SEE ALSO
   The core driver:
       nutupsdrv(8)

   Other drivers for Tripp-Lite hardware:
       tripplite(8), tripplitesu(8), usbhid-ups(8)

   Other tools:
       regex(7), lsusb(8)

INTERNET RESOURCES
       The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.networkupstools.org/



Network UPS Tools                 10/09/2011                  TRIPPLITE_USB(8)
