Citeren Marco Chiappero <[email protected]>:
Understood... you are indeed right and I'm a bit doubtful...
However adding this in NUT requires a low amount of code, NUT is
using almost no CPU at all and the configuration can be still simple
enough (for example: MODE=standalone, LISTEN = name.domain.tld,
basic upsmon config. An extended documentation can help a lot).
Well, I don't know what to do, it's a your decision to have a NSM
client in NUT.
We will have an NSM client in NUT, if not only to limit the polling
rate (which has bothered me for quite a while). Currently, at a mere 5
second polling rate, the CPU load for the netxml-ups driver is almost
an order of magnitude that of the usbhid-ups driver (monitoring the
same UPS). The alarms really help us to determine when to poll the
driver, so even if we wouldn't parse the alarm messages (I don't think
that would make sense though), it would already be meaningful.
[...]
This is what happens if you trigger a shutdown test. But if you
switch off an outlet through the UPS Controls page, it will never
reach that.
Right, I knew about it and I'm afraid there's no solution. But
shouldn't be a huge limitation.
If we add an NSM client mode (and we will have one in the near
future), people will expect it to behave in a similar way as the NSM
clients they have been using so far. So this is a must-do for the
driver, not something optional.
But I don't think this is too hard to implement. We know when the
timers are running (through the alarms) and we also know the shutdown
duration requested on the outputs, so it shouldn't be too problematic
to insert a FSD flag. I just wish the NMC would have used the
ShutdownImminent flag that is supposed to tell this, but for some
mysterious reason it doesn't seem to be used by the NMC.
Even when using the current netxml-ups you will be in for a surprise
if you trigger a delayed shutdown with reboot. This will kill the
power after a delay, but there will be no advance warning. As far as I
can see now, the only thing we can do about that is setting the FSD
flag if the shutdown timer is running and the value is lower than the
shutdown duration for that output.
Best regards, Arjen
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