Hi all,
I recently installed OMV on my Buffalo LS-WVL since the original firmware was not compatible with QNAP's UPS monitoring software. The objective is to monitor the UPS by connecting connecting the USB cable to one of the NAS enclosures (preferably the QNAP) and have it signal the other two when there was a power failure.
My setup
- Buffalo LS-WVL x 2
- QNAP TS-453 x 1
- APC ES-700 UPS x 1
I installed the current version of OMV on one of the buffalo NASes, and have been facing a few problems.
Issue 1: - Mount Point
The mount point Data1 on the boot disk keeps dropping off at least twice a week. I am unable to do anything using the Filesystems tab within the OMV gui, and am forced to SSH into the box and manually umount / mount the mount point whenever this happens. This unstable behaviour is my biggest concern and is seen only with that one mount point. I have attached JPEGs of the file system settings for reference.
Issue 2: Reboot / Shutdown
- When I reboot the device from within the GUI, it does not always boot back into OMV. Sometimes the device just hangs. It responds to ping and nothing else, not even SSH. I have to pull the power once or twice before it boots back into OMV.
- When I shutdown the device from within the GUI it sometimes reboots instead. The physical power button at the back doesn't do anything.
Issue 3: UPS monitoring - Resolved, see post below
The UPS is connected to the QNAP NAS via USB cable and the OMV NAS is configured to query the UPS status over the network. This part works and the OMV NAS is getting UPS status messages from the QNAP. However, I am unable to configure the OMV NAS to shutdown after a fixed interval. I need this to work since the UPS has a limited run time and I want to shutdown if the power outage lasts more than 5 minutes. The OMV UPS plugin seems to be meant only for directly connected UPS. Connecting the UPS to the OMV NAS is an option, but I still need the second Buffalo NAS(when migrated to OMV) to be able to shutdown once the remote UPS loses power for more than 5 minutes.
I would appreciate some help from the experts here on these issues.