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Posted: 2025-02-1906:09 AM
Change SystemID name config.ini
Hi all,
I'm trying to do some configuration management on multiple APC pdu's and ups's spread over multiple of our office sites. I've wrote a little ansible script that downloads the config.ini's modifies them if needed and uploads them when changed. Most of the modified settings are nicely changed after upload. However for some reason I'm not able to modify the system name, contact and location this way.
From the logs I see the new settings are parsed by the UPS. But from some reason they do not take effect. The name remains 'apcxxxxx' and contact/location 'Unkown'
02/19/2025 13:53:24 System Configuration change. System location.
02/19/2025 13:53:24 System Configuration change. System contact.
02/19/2025 13:53:24 System Configuration change. System name.
02/19/2025 13:53:15 apc SCP CLI user 'apc' logged out from x.x.x.x
02/19/2025 13:53:15 apc SSH/SCP: File transfer complete.
02/19/2025 13:53:13 apc SSH/SCP: File transfer started.
I've read documentation mentioning the "Override" keyword that locks the network settings unless set to the MAC address. This is in place by default in the downloaded config.ini but has no effect on the name/location/contact. Specifying Override in the [SystemID] section has no effect. (It actually gives "Configuration file warning: Invalid keyword on line 242")
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction to set this programmatically. Model: AP8659EU3 rPDU: v7.1.3 aOS: v7.1.2