<html><head></head><body>Which gets back to the original point I was trying to make. Iy the UPS does a load test (and I'm pretty certain My SmartUPS can, if enabled), you know the battery is failing *before* something face-plants, thus *reducing* risk! I test on all mine, and have never in 15+ years of doing so, had anything go down unintentionally . . . The fact that you have not tested is why you find yourself with such a bad battery . . .<br>
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- Tim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 3, 2017 3:39:30 PM CDT, "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@gathman.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Gene Heskett wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> Nut, IIRC, can do a periodic battery test by putting it offline,<br /> using the battery, for a predetermined length of time, weekly,<br /> monthly etc,<br /></blockquote><br /> We definitely don't want that in this instance either!<br /></blockquote><br /> Why not? If the battery has a holdup time of 5 minutes when its fresh,<br /></blockquote><br />Because in this instance it crashes your system, corrupts filesystems,<br />etc, etc.<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> We want the ALARM that the nut driver is<br /> generating, and upsd is passing on - to be acted on in some way by<br /> upsmon. Which NOTIFYCMD is run when there is an ALARM?<br /></blockquote><br /> I've not read the docs in ages, but if there isn't something mentioned in<br /> a man upsmon, I would be unpleasantly surprised.<br /><br /> According to my copy, it does a -wall (warn all) by default, and it looks<br /> like REPLBATT is one such message, and the default time for a repeat is<br /> 12 hours. The -wall type message shows on every open terminal on the<br /> system's network, so someone should see it. From the upsmon.conf file:<br /></blockquote><br />That would be great if "we" (the original poster) were getting a REPLBATT...<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> NOTIFYCMD command<br /></blockquote>... long winded reiteration of man pages....<br /><br />I think what we have here is a bug/oversight in upsmon, which we might be able<br />to create a nice test case for using the dummy-ups driver. It is not <br />clear if it can generate the composite status "ALARM OL", but I will try<br />in a bit. If it can't, maybe a patch for dummy-ups is in order.<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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