Re: [Nut-upsdev] Proposed new documentation "Configuration Examples"

2017-06-23 Thread Roger Price
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017, Jim Klimov wrote: On June 21, 2017 5:26:47 PM GMT+02:00, Tim Dawson wrote: My thought of #2 require none of that . . . I have a server with two supplies, and two UPS units. One supply is on each UPS, and clients are distributed otherwise to balance.

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Proposed new documentation "Configuration Examples"

2017-06-21 Thread Jim Klimov
On June 21, 2017 5:26:47 PM GMT+02:00, Tim Dawson wrote: >My thought of #2 require none of that . . . I have a server with two >supplies, and two UPS units. One supply is on each UPS, and clients are >distributed otherwise to balance. The main thing is to ensure that it >is

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Proposed new documentation "Configuration Examples"

2017-06-21 Thread Tim Dawson
My thought of #2 require none of that . . . I have a server with two supplies, and two UPS units. One supply is on each UPS, and clients are distributed otherwise to balance. The main thing is to ensure that it is documented accurately how to config so that the server only shuts down when the

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Proposed new documentation "Configuration Examples"

2017-06-21 Thread Roger Price
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017, Jim Klimov wrote: Regarding systemd, there are many valid paths, applied in order of preference (rising from distro to system-local). It may be worded better in official docs, but in short, the /usr/lib/systemd and to an extent /lib/systemd trees can be considered

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Proposed new documentation "Configuration Examples"

2017-06-21 Thread Jim Klimov
On June 21, 2017 11:03:00 AM GMT+02:00, Roger Price wrote: >On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, Charles Lepple wrote: > >> On Jun 9, 2017, at 10:16 AM, Roger Price wrote: >>> To address this, I propose a "NUT configuration for Noobs" which is >>> called "Configuration Examples". > >> I

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Proposed new documentation "Configuration Examples"

2017-06-21 Thread Roger Price
On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, Tim Dawson wrote: Allow me to suggest a couple more sample configs: 1) Server as UPS controller with clients that are also on UPS, considering shutdown sequencing and It would be good to add this, but I lack the depth of understanding needed to write a tutorial. For

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Proposed new documentation "Configuration Examples"

2017-06-21 Thread Roger Price
On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, Charles Lepple wrote: On Jun 9, 2017, at 10:16 AM, Roger Price wrote: To address this, I propose a "NUT configuration for Noobs" which is called "Configuration Examples". I am also curious whether you tried to edit any of the existing NUT documentation before creating a

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Proposed new documentation "Configuration Examples"

2017-06-13 Thread Tim Dawson
Allow me to suggest a couple more sample configs: 1) Server as UPS controller with clients that are also on UPS, considering shutdown sequencing and 2) Multi power supply server with multiple UPS (with or without clients). - Tim On June 13, 2017 10:01:54 PM CDT, Charles Lepple

Re: [Nut-upsdev] Proposed new documentation "Configuration Examples"

2017-06-13 Thread Charles Lepple
On Jun 9, 2017, at 10:16 AM, Roger Price wrote: > > Most of the questions asked in the nut-user mailing list seem to me to be > either erudite technical discussion of new and exotic UPS units, or n00b > questions of the style "I have this old UPS so I installed NUT but it didn't > work". > >

[Nut-upsdev] Proposed new documentation "Configuration Examples"

2017-06-09 Thread Roger Price
Most of the questions asked in the nut-user mailing list seem to me to be either erudite technical discussion of new and exotic UPS units, or n00b questions of the style "I have this old UPS so I installed NUT but it didn't work". NUT is thoroughly documented with man pages and User Manual,