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(Linux) The menu or the systray are missing

Some desktop or windows manager do not provide a way to register menus with sub menu

ω Solution 1:

copy the NSM menu files to your desktop

$ cp <installpath>/desktop/*.menu ~/Desktop

ω Solution 2:

Bookmark the NSM Supervision Page in your favorite Internet Browser,

> https://< name or IP address of computer hosting NSM>:4680/mgeups/

> or http://< name or IP address of computer hosting NSM>:4679/mgeups/

and call the uninstall from the command line using

<Installation directory>/packaging/nsmInstaller –uninstall

ω Solution 3:

Add the menu entries using your favorite menu editor

Entry 1: name : Supervision

: cmd : <Installation directory>/packaging/nsmInstaller –openURL <URL>

with <URL>

> https://< name or IP address of computer hosting NSM>:4680/mgeups/

> or http://< name or IP address of computer hosting NSM>:4679/mgeups/

Entry 2: name : Uninstall

: cmd : <Installation directory>/packaging/nsmInstaller –uninstall

(Linux) Repackaging function on Redhat 3, 4 or Debian Sarge

On these platforms, just after Installation and configuration, the NSM has sufficient user rights to build the

customized package.

After a computer reboot, the NSM doesn’t have sufficient user rights to build the customized package.

Solutions to build a customized package after reboot:

ω You can install again the NSM on your computer, your configuration is not modified.

Then you have sufficient user rights to build the customized package.

ω Or you can use the command line installation parameters to deploy a customised software

In the HTML pages.

In the page “Configuration -> Power Device”, when I click on the “Add” button the expected page is not

displayed

Solution: Check if an anti popup filter is activated on your web browser and configure this filter to accept

the page.

Check you don’t have the highest security level on IE

Cannot display the UPS properties page. HTTP 404 error with IE.

Solution: Check the URL entered.

> https://< name or IP address of computer hosting NSM>:4680/mgeups/

> or http://< name or IP address of computer hosting NSM>:4679/mgeups/

When you attempt to view the properties or configuration pages, the browser requests a user name and

Contents

Main Page Table of Contents Page 1 Introduction to the MGEs Network Solution 1.1 Overview 1.2 Monitoring the UPSs over the network 1.3 Protecting the computers / servers New functions: 1.4 Connecting the UPS 1.4.1 Connecting to the Network 1.4.2 Select Network Architecture 1.4.3 Network Performances 2 Installation 2.1 Hardware Pre-requisites (Electrical and Netw ork Connections) 2.2 Software Installation Pre-requisites 2.2.1 On the System Hosting Network Shutdown Module V3 2.2.1.1 Windows Compatibilities: 2.2.1.2 Linux Compatibilities: 2.2.1.3 Standby configuration (Windows): 2.2.1.4 Broadcast Message configuration (Windows): 2.2.2 On the System that Displays Web-based Graphical User Interface 2.3 Quick Start 2.4 Software Installation Procedure Page 2.5 Application deployment and silent installation (advanced) 2.6 Uninstalling the Network Shutdown Module 3 Minimal configuration steps 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The IP address of the UPS that powers your server. Page 3.3 Users accounts configuration 4 Use 4.1 Monitoring the server and the UPS(s) 4.1.1 Local access 4.1.2 Remote access Page Page 4.2 System and UPS event log 4.3 UPS Events list Page 4.4 Test the communication with the UPS 4.4.1 Simple Tests 4.4.2 Advanced tests Messages in verbose mode: 4.5 Start and stop the Shutdown Module (advanced) 5 Other Configuration possibilities 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Configure system parameters 5.3 Shutdown Configuration Page 5.4 Checking for Upgrades 5.5 Events and actions (advanced configuration) 6 Multi-UPS Systems 6.1 Caution 6.2 Presentation Page Page 6.3 Create a multi-UPS configuration 7 Appendix 7.1 Single UPS Mode compatibility 7.1.1 Card/Proxy compatibility 7.1.2 UPSs compatibility 7.2 Multi-UPS Mode Compatibility list Page 7.2.3 Simple associations of the previous configurations 7.2.4 Configurations NOT supported 7.3 Examples of Multi UPS configurations 7.4 Multi-UPS Systems and Event Management 7.5 Application deployment and silent installation 7.5.1 Introduction 7.5.2 Customized installation package 7.5.3 Install the Shutdown Module in silent mode 7.5.4 Advanced installation options 7.6 Single UPS Shutdown Sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 Page 7.7 Multi UPS shutdown sequence (example with Static Transfer Switch) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.8 Additional information on events and actions 7.8.1 Action settings Tab 7.8.1.1 The different actions 7.8.1.2 Add an action 7.8.1.3 System Shutdown Action 7.8.1.4 Execute Action 7.8.1.5 Send email Action 7.8.2 Events Tab 7.8.2.1 Notification alarms 7.8.2.2 Protection alarms 7.8.2.3 Multi UPS Systems and Notification Alarms 7.8.2.4 Multi UPS Systems and Protection Alarms 7.8.3 Test tab 7.8.4 The action parameters (execute and send email) 7.8.5 Software utilities 7.8.5.1 Shutdown.bat (Windows Script) 7.8.5.2 Shutdown.sh (Linux Script) 7.8.5.3 Wait (Windows) 7.8.5.4 mgeRunAs software utility (For Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) Page 7.9 FAQ and Error messages Page Page 8 Glossary www.apc.com / www.mgeups.com 9 Acknowledgements 9.1 SQLite 9.2 Pi3Web 9.3 PHP 9.4 OpenSSL Huge thanks from the MGE software development team to the OpenSSL Project. Page www.apc.com / www.mgeups.com 9.5 Lighttpd Huge thanks from the MGE software development team to the Lighttpd Project. 9.6 WxWidget Huge thanks from the MGE software development team to the WxWidget Project.