On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once upon a time, Charles Lepple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I had a power hiccup yesterday and a server connected to a Best Ferrups >> > 18KVA shutdown. The problem is that the UPS is reporting remaining >> > runtime in minutes but nut treats it as seconds (so nut thought it only >> > had 46 seconds left). >> >> The patch looks good at first glance, but by default, NUT should not >> use the runtime estimate to initiate a shutdown. >> >> Are you using upssched? Any special parameters to the driver? >> >> Otherwise, NUT will shut down when the UPS signals LB (low battery), >> which is a unit-less boolean value. > > No, I'm not using upssched. I wasn't sure exactly how nut decided when > to shut down (maybe a gap in the documentation or a gap in my reading). > Here's what I got in my log: > > Jun 12 17:05:10 spider upsmon[27383]: UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] on battery > Jun 12 17:05:10 spider upsmon[27383]: UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] battery is low > Jun 12 17:05:10 spider upsd[27379]: Client [EMAIL PROTECTED] set FSD on UPS > [best] > Jun 12 17:05:10 spider upsmon[27383]: Executing automatic power-fail shutdown > Jun 12 17:05:10 spider upsmon[27383]: Auto logout and shutdown proceeding > Jun 12 17:05:20 spider upsd[27379]: Signal 15: exiting > > The UPS does have old batteries (we're getting them replaced), but it > still is reporting 46 minutes of runtime, so I didn't expect that it > would have instantly reported low battery.
Rob's explanation most likely applies here. As for the patch, did you verify the 46 minutes versus seconds with another program? -- - Charles Lepple _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
