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Because (in this case at least) monitoring doesn't imply key events occurring.<br>
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To flesh out the question, the intention here is to send results to something like Prometheus.<br>
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But if the answer is "do what upsmon does" then that's fair enough too!<span id="ms-outlook-android-cursor"></span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Nut-upsuser <nut-upsuser-bounces+sshaikh=hotmail.com@alioth-lists.debian.net> on behalf of Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 29, 2020 3:45:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shakil Shaikh via Nut-upsuser <nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nut-upsuser] How to handle flags as status?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Shakil Shaikh via Nut-upsuser wrote:<br>
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> I'm looking into the best way to handle the ups status that gets returned by NUT. I've had a brief look at the source and it appears that this status is<br>
> actually a composite of flags, some of which cannot co-exist.<br>
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> In particular I have a UPS that returns both OL and OL TRIM, which seem like reasonable statuses, but encode multiple states. A monitoring client has to<br>
> know that OL TRIM implies online.<br>
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> I assume that not all combinations of flags exist, but I also understand that the combinations that do are defined by the drivers. To that end it becomes<br>
> difficult to enumerate them.<br>
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> Are clients therefore supposed to list all possibilities, or split on space to get the flags back?<br>
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> Thoughts appreciated<br>
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Why not let a program like upsmon do this for you? Then all you have to do is <br>
say in configuration file upsmon.conf what is to be done for the key events.<br>
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Roger<br>
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