[Nut-upsuser] Measuring Real Power- Load

[Patrick Shyvers]

Brilliantly, I forgot to include information about my setup.  Also, as
is usually the case, I found (at least part of) the answer to my own
question minutes after sending the previous email.

Setup is a bunch of APC UPS's monitored by SNMP.  We are using nut-snmp
2.2.0.  I've found in the documentation ups.realpower and ups.power, and
while those aren't percent values it's something to start with.  It
looks like I just need to extend the apc mib to fetch ups.power and
ups.realpower.  Hopefully someone can let me know if I'm on the right
track, but things are looking up.
-Patrick

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 20:13 -0700, Patrick Shyvers wrote:
> Hello, I've been using NUT and cacti to graph some values from our
> UPS's.  Unfortunately, while the APC UPS's seem to track both apparent
> (complex) power % and real power %, as best I can tell NUT will only
> fetch apparent power.  ups.load returns apparent power, and I can't find
> any key that returns real power- we need to know both.  Am I missing
> something?  Is there a patch I can use?  Or is this simply not
> supported.
> (Also, if I'm confused and you're confident ups.load returns real power,
> then please tell me about how to get apparent power!)
> 
> Thank you!
> -Patrick
> 
> P.S. Real power % is the more pressing concern- all our loads seem to
> have a ratio close to 1, and the UPS's all have a lower real power
> capacity, so we're approaching our real power ceiling faster than
> apparent power.