The man page for upsmon.conf explains the HOSTSYNC directive:
HOSTSYNC seconds upsmon will wait up to this many seconds in master mode for the slaves to disconnect during a shutdown situation. By default, this is 15 seconds.
When a UPS goes critical (on battery + low battery, or "FSD": forced shutdown), the slaves are supposed to disconnect and shut down right away. The HOSTSYNC timer keeps the master upsmon from sitting there forever if one of the slaves gets stuck.
The explanation is clear. but the name "HOSTSYNC" is not. It seems to me that if the directive is to provide a maximum time that the primary should wait for secondaries to shut down, then it would be better if it were called MAXWAITTIME.
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