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I have 2x FreeNAS servers and one UPS.

The First FreeNAS server has the NUT stuff configured, running and working just fine.

Is there a way to configure my second freeNAS server to be a slave to the first FreeNAS server like I can do with other linux machines?

thanks.

Luma
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The original poster may have found an answer by now, but just for the sake of others who visit this thread, NUT master/slave is merely a matter of configuration. Install NUT per the appropriate OS then configure one, and only one, machine to the master. The others will be set as slaves and provided the ip address of the master.

Check out this link: http://www.networkupstools.org/

Deer Hunter
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Mophilly
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The FreeNAS GUI have the option of running nut as master or slave, so it should be no problem setting it up.

The problem comes when you have multiple (redundant) UPS'es, the GUI does not handle that well.

You could configure nut yourself, and either chflags schg /etc/local/nut/* to keep the freenas gui to mess with the config files. Or change nut_prefix to /usr/local.myown in /etc/rc.conf.local and have the nut config files in /usr/local.myown/nut

As usual, the GUI is useful and easy, but if you really want to do serious stuff, you must use CLI.

Lenne
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As far as i know this is not exactly possible..

You can however..

Continuously rsync the boxes together ( i dont believe FreeNas does any DRDB / block level replication)

To failover, you will need something like heartbeat or a proxy externally FreeNas is a great product, but is not exactly supporting conventional/proprietary cluster services.. ( You might need to make your own)

You could also consider doing this from the application side, depending on what your actually using freeNAS for.. I believe with running something like VM or the windows equivalent you can

Hope this helps.

Arenstar
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