[Nut-upsdev] [Nut-upsuser] Setting up charge/voltage based shutdowns

[Arnaldo Viegas de Lima]

I think it can be useful in a scenario like:

- Large UPS, that powers 2 hosts: one is VMServer with just a small boot driver and the second is a NAS with all the disks for the first server. 
- UPS is connected by USB to another host (such as a small Raspberry PI), acting as the NUT primary.
- Both machines served by UPS are NUT secondaries.
- The NAS box can only shutdown one the VMware is fully stopped to avoid corruption at several levels.

If the secondaries can define their one parameters for initiating the shutdown, one can decide something like:

- VMware will shutdown at 20% battery left OR 15min of runtime left
- NAS will shutdown at 10% ou 8min left

Another approach is to attempt to define a way to sync secondaries… but that’s much more complex.

Arnaldo.  

> On Aug 6, 2023, at 12:39 PM, Jim Klimov via Nut-upsuser <nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello all again,
> 
>   While looking at https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/2014 I understood that I am
> not sure if currently NUT has a standard way of triggering a shutdown based on remaining charge
> or runtime, if a device/driver lacks a `battery.charge.low` setting but has readings for the values
> themselves.
> 
>   Such an ability rings a bell to me, but maybe it is specific to some drivers and is not
> something ubiquitous - as being in the driver (and/or upsmon/upssched?) core codebase?
> 
>   So there are a few questions stemming from this:
> * Can a user currently (on NUT 2.8.0) set up battery percentage based shutdowns
>   when the "low" variable is missing in the driver/device? (Suggestions in the ticket
>   linked above are welcome)
> * Does it make sense to add something like this (if missing) to be consistent on
>   un-capable devices? Or is it already there but too buried in code or docs?
> * Would anyone step up to make this setup easy for newcomers (even if it means "just"
>   finding a chapter in the docs/FAQ and making it better exposed, perhaps in the Wiki),
>   or more so if design and coding are due? ;)
> 
> Jim
> 
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