----- Message from Roger Price <[email protected]> ---------
   Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 13:53:40 +0100 (CET)
   From: Roger Price <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown variables
     To: Simon Wilson via Nut-upsuser <[email protected]>


On Sun, 27 Nov 2022, Simon Wilson via Nut-upsuser wrote:

Per https://networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/ar01s06.html 6.3, am I right in thinking, for my single server running NUT (in standalone mode) with connected USB UPS:

- when battery.charge reaches battery.charge.low: ups.status triggers to "LB" and upsmon sets an FSD in motion - upsmon waits FINALDELAY 5 seconds, and calls my shutdown command (which then in sequence does a clean shutdown of my VMs before calling the 'real' shutdown command)
- my server then shuts down and powers off

Main question:

"ups.delay.shutdown" - at what point does this variable kick in? Is ups.delay.shutdown the period in seconds after FSD that the UPS will hard-shutdown, i.e. I need to ensure that my server can complete clean shutdown in that duration?

Yes, you do need to give your server sufficient time.
My understanding is that the ups.delay.shutdown is overwritten by the offdelay option in file ups.conf.

In the machine with which I type this, I have

 rprice@titan ~ upsc Eaton ups.delay.shutdown
 20
 rprice@titan ~ grep offdelay /etc/nut/ups.conf
         offdelay = 30

See https://rogerprice.org/NUT/ConfigExamples.A5.pdf chapter 2.5, and chapter 2.7 line 77.

Roger

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That is great, thank you. From reading that I also note the comment that ondelay must be longer than offdelay.

My server takes 90s to 110s to do a full shutdown... but most of that is a scripted VM close before "shutdown -h +0" is finally called. I will do a timed test to be precise on the weekend, but until then I have put:

[eaton5sx]
        driver = "usbhid-ups"
        port = "auto"
        vendorid = "0463"
        productid = "FFFF"
        desc = "Eaton 5SX"
        offdelay = 120
        ondelay = 125
        lowbatt = 30

...and restarted nut-driver. I then used upsc to confirm those settings had applied, which they had.

When I time it and see how long the actual post-VM-close shutdown takes I'll be able to reduce those significantly.

So, by my understanding from 2.6, my settings will trigger shutdown at 30% (42 mins of net runtime for this rack), the shutdown process will run on the server, including the nutshutdown command (/usr/lib/systemd/system-shutdown/nutshutdown on RH), which will then tell the UPS to power off at offdelay +2mins, with (if power has restored) a further 5 seconds before it can come back on (to ondelay).

I think I have got it, thank you again. That link's a very useful resource.

Simon.



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Simon Wilson
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