Brilliantly, I forgot to include information about my setup. Also, as is usually the case, I found (at least part of) the answer to my own question minutes after sending the previous email.
Setup is a bunch of APC UPS's monitored by SNMP. We are using nut-snmp 2.2.0. I've found in the documentation ups.realpower and ups.power, and while those aren't percent values it's something to start with. It looks like I just need to extend the apc mib to fetch ups.power and ups.realpower. Hopefully someone can let me know if I'm on the right track, but things are looking up. -Patrick On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 20:13 -0700, Patrick Shyvers wrote: > Hello, I've been using NUT and cacti to graph some values from our > UPS's. Unfortunately, while the APC UPS's seem to track both apparent > (complex) power % and real power %, as best I can tell NUT will only > fetch apparent power. ups.load returns apparent power, and I can't find > any key that returns real power- we need to know both. Am I missing > something? Is there a patch I can use? Or is this simply not > supported. > (Also, if I'm confused and you're confident ups.load returns real power, > then please tell me about how to get apparent power!) > > Thank you! > -Patrick > > P.S. Real power % is the more pressing concern- all our loads seem to > have a ratio close to 1, and the UPS's all have a lower real power > capacity, so we're approaching our real power ceiling faster than > apparent power. _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser