2008/5/2 Emard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:29:28AM +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: > > Hi Emard, > > > > 2008/5/2 Emard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > HI all > > > > > > How to setup nut to use and monitor laptop battery on linux? > > > (/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state) > > > > why would you do so? there is nothing to gain doing so (no > > Laptop may be considered a replacement (or "hot-spare") for the > if a real nut server in the production setup goes down. > > > master/slave conf possible). > > Why not? Machines (slaves) on the network may be on dumb ups-es with > no management link, and be connected to network with a nut running on > a laptop (master) which 'knows' power fail condition and serve > dumb ups machines, shutting them down few minutes after power failure. > Much better than dumb ups alone. >
ok, having this use case makes things more clear ;-) you might consider using dummy-ups to do this task, and either: 1) create a script that is cron'ed every minute (or so) and feed dummy-ups (using upsrw) according to the current status 2) modify dummy-ups to parse the battery status in its update loop You might also want to put a "powervalue" of 0 in upsmon.conf -> MONITOR for the laptop. 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
