Hi Aaron, 2008/2/20, Aaron J. Grier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm running nut 2.0.1 with an MGE pulsar evolution 3000 with the > mge-utalk (serial) driver on NetBSD 3.1 . > > I had a very strange occurance in my basement datacenter this early AM. > > the following was logged by upslog: > > 20080219 023452 100.0 123.0 049.0 [OL CHRG] NA 60.00 > 20080219 023522 100.0 122.8 049.0 [OL CHRG] NA 60.00 > 20080219 023552 098.0 123.0 049.0 [OL DISCHRG] NA 60.00 > 20080219 023622 097.0 123.0 049.0 [OL DISCHRG] NA 60.00 > > ... > > 20080219 063429 019.0 122.6 049.0 [OL DISCHRG] NA 60.00 > 20080219 063459 019.0 122.8 049.0 [OL DISCHRG] NA 60.00 > 20080219 183013 100.0 121.1 050.0 [OL CHRG] NA 60.00 > 20080219 183043 100.0 120.9 049.0 [OL CHRG] NA 60.00 > > the good news is the UPS held up for four hours. > > the bad news is that nut completely ignored that the UPS was > discharging, and none of my connected machines shut down properly. I > know that the UPS driver was running, because if was not, upsd would > have complained loudly and frequently. I know upsd was running (on the > connected server as well as all the clients), because if it was not, > upsmon would have complained loudly and frequently. > > there were no indications in my logs that nut was paying any attention > to the situation. > > why did my UPS decide to discharge its battery when there appears to be > no power outage? (just looking for suggestions and guesses here from > other MGE users...) > > why did nut not see that my UPS was discharging and the battery > percentage running down and take appropriate action? "OL DISCHRG" > status in the logs seems nonsensical. I have only seen this condition a > few times before in my logs: > > 20061002 002628 094.0 079.6 045.0 [OB DISCHRG] NA 60.00 > 20061002 002658 093.0 096.8 045.0 [OL DISCHRG BOOST] NA 60.00 > 20061002 002728 093.0 088.3 045.0 [OL DISCHRG] NA 60.00 > 20061002 002758 093.0 000.0 045.0 [OB DISCHRG] NA 00.00 > > Oct 2 00:22:59 aragorn upsmon[234]: UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] on battery > Oct 2 00:26:45 aragorn upsmon[234]: UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] on line > power > Oct 2 00:27:35 aragorn upsmon[234]: UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] on battery > > nut saw this one, and shut everything down, as expected. > > 20061214 224604 100.0 122.4 054.0 [OL CHRG] NA 60.00 > 20061214 224634 099.0 123.7 056.0 [OL DISCHRG] NA 60.00 > 20061214 224704 097.0 000.0 054.0 [OB DISCHRG] NA 00.00 > > Dec 14 22:46:45 aragorn upsmon[234]: UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] on battery > Dec 14 22:58:41 aragorn upsmon[234]: UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] battery is > low > Dec 14 22:58:41 aragorn upsd[226]: Client [EMAIL PROTECTED] set FSD > on UPS [mge3000] > Dec 14 22:58:57 aragorn upsmon[234]: Host sync timer expired, forcing > shutdown > Dec 14 22:58:57 aragorn upsmon[234]: Executing automatic power-fail > shutdown > Dec 14 22:58:57 aragorn upsmon[234]: Auto logout and shutdown > proceeding > Dec 14 22:59:02 aragorn upsd[226]: Host 127.0.0.1 disconnected (read > failure) > Dec 14 22:59:08 aragorn upsd[226]: Signal 15: exiting > > nut did not see this one, but it was transient: > > 20070227 083935 100.0 122.2 048.0 [OL CHRG] NA 60.00 > 20070227 084005 100.0 122.2 048.0 [OL DISCHRG] NA 60.00 > 20070227 084035 100.0 122.2 048.0 [OL CHRG] NA 60.00 > > here is the device (online now) > > $ upsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] > battery.charge: 100.0 > battery.charge.low: 30 > battery.runtime: 00876 > battery.voltage: 081.6 > battery.voltage.nominal: 072.0 > driver.name: mge-utalk > driver.parameter.port: /dev/tty00 > driver.version: 2.0.1 > driver.version.internal: 0.81.0 > input.frequency: 60.00 > input.transfer.boost.low: 102.0 > input.transfer.high: 132.0 > input.transfer.low: 102.0 > input.transfer.trim.high: 132.0 > input.voltage: 122.8 > output.current: 010.3 > output.voltage: 122.2 > ups.delay.shutdown: 020 > ups.delay.start: 001 > ups.firmware: unknown > ups.id: Evolutio 3000 17 > ups.load: 049.0 > ups.mfr: MGE UPS SYSTEMS > ups.model: Evolution 3000 > ups.status: OL CHRG > ups.test.interval: 10080 > > thanks in advance for any advice.
as always, Arjen already replied. I would just add that you should prefer the mge-shut driver. It's more complete and maintained that the mge-utalk (which is for the legacy ASCII protocol). Best regards, Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems - http://www.mgeops.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
