On Jun 9, 2019, at 10:39 AM, Joe Gervasio wrote:
> Is there some way I can test my setup without having to deplete and recharge 
> my UPS every iteration?    I have tried:
>       upsmon –c fsd   (on the master system)
> but all that happens is the iMac repeatedly declares ‘Executing automatic 
> power-fail shutdown’ but does not actually do anything, and nor do any of the 
> other systems :-(.  

Hmm, I'm not sure what would make it log the shutdown message repeatedly, but 
something occurs to me: you are probably running a recent enough version of 
macOS that won't let NUT write to /etc (per upsmon.conf: "POWERDOWNFLAG 
/etc/killpower"). I don't remember why we recommend /etc (maybe the assumption 
was that /var would get unmounted, but /var is not frequently on a separate 
partition on OS X). Maybe /var/run/killpower would be better?

> Clearly I’ve got something horribly wrong in my configurations, but being 
> able to simulate on-battery, low-battery etc. from the UPS would really help 
> the testing/diagnosis!
> 
'upsmon -c fsd' should be sufficient to test the shutdown procedure you are 
describing, but we also have a driver that reads what is essentially a NUT/upsc 
script file: https://networkupstools.org/docs/man/dummy-ups.html (ignore the 
parts about repeater mode).

In your case, upsmon is only going to be looking at the "ups.status" field. You 
can use the example in the "Implementation" section, probably with a longer 
timer value at the last test.

Happy to help - hope we can get this working smoothly. It is one of those 
things that should "just work", but some of our assumptions about the OS don't 
hold forever.
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