Here are three wishes for the future of upsmon:

1. The NOTIFYMSG texts should allow UTF-8 encoded messages.

2. The flags used in NOTIFYFLAG should be extended to include USER. This flag says that the message is to be sent to the notify daemon, perhaps with the command

   notify-send -a NUT -t 604800000 -u critical <message>

This will allow the users of a workstation to see the message. The program wall is ignored by display environments such as Gnome and KDE. The current solution requires upssched and upssched-cmd just to put up a simple message.

3. The NOTIFYMSG and NOTIFYFLAG directives in upsmon.conf should be extended to specify the UPS name, as is already done for the AF directives in upssched.conf. This will make it possible to have actions and messages which are different for different UPSes. The current solution requires turning off upsmon logging and notification for all UPSes in the presence of a busy UPS such as a heartbeart.

Roger

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