[Nut-upsdev] HCL HP R5000 supported by bcmxcp

[Kjell Claesson]

torsdagen den 29 mars 2012 18.38.17 skrev  Arnaud Quette:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> sorry for the lag in answering... crowded week.
> 
> One thing bothers me. I don't see parameters like "battery.runtime.low"
> 
> > here. How will the UPS notice the NUT that it is running critically low?
> > Or
> > better said, when will it do that?
> > 
> > With APC, there is such parameter, default set to 120 seconds. As I
> > understand, when battery goes critically low (2 minutes before getting
> > fully discharged), it sends "battery critical" to the NUT server, and the
> > NUT sends "shutdown" command to clients.
> 
> that's it.
> 
> However with the HP, either R5000 or R5500, there is no such parameter, and
> 

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Hi Peter,

You can see this by adding this instead in the bcmxcp.c at row 1052.
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/* Low battery warning */
value = answer[BCMXCP_EXT_LIMITS_BLOCK_LOW_BATT_WARNING];
	  
	  if (value != 0) {
		dstate_setinfo("battery.runtime.low", "%d", value);
	  }
	
bcmxcp_status.lowbatt = value * 60;    

/* Check if we should warn the user that her shutdown delay is to long? */
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But this is something that is set in the "config parameters" so it would not 
change. The driver is made so if you try to set the "shutdown delay"
(This is the delay between the low battery signal to the ups would be shut 
down) longer than remaining time set in the config it would warn you.

So as long this is not configurable, it is no meaning to show it.

And if Arnaud like it, it could be entered into the driver. I have
hade no time to work on the driver and don't have the latest trunk checked
out as developer at the moment.

Regards
Kjell