[Nut-upsuser] mge galaxy 6000 three-phase supported or not?

[Bernd Markgraf]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:18 +0200, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> >> i just wonder, if it is posible to read the values for all the three
> >> phases of a mge galaxy 6000 ups?
> > From looking at the mgemib part of the snmp-ups it doesn't read the data
> > of all 3 phases (yet). Though this should be fairly easy to add.
> I have added this in my local copy for the MGE MIB, so it could work.
excellent... is there any driver that you dont enhance? ;-)

> Could you send that patch again? As far as I know, I committed all patches
> you sent, so it could be that I missed one.
no problem

> They probably never will support it in the same way as other NUT drivers
> do. This is because by the time we run 'upsdrvctl shutdown', we won't have
> networking capabilities anymore. So the only way to shutdown a SNMP UPS is
> by sending it an instcmd "shutdown.(return|stayoff|reboot)". This requires
> careful planning, as you want to make sure that the system you send this
> command from, has enough time to shutdown cleanly. You can either do this
> by allowing sufficient delay before the shutdown, or powering it from an
> alternative power source. Neither of these is without risk, so we must
> consider this carefully.
I was about to evaluate the use of a sufficient delay... once I have a
maintenance window on my boxes I'll test that. The last scheduled
power-outage was so short that the upsen didn't come anywhere near a
shutdown... ;-)

  Bernd