[Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite SMART1000RM2U

[Charles Lepple]

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On Dec 10, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Dawning Sky wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 7, 2012, at 3:01 AM, Dawning Sky wrote:
>> 
>>> 1. battery.charge doesn't report correct charge level when the UPS is
>>> On Batter.  It just reports 0.  Even though it will report 100 when on
>>> line power.
>> 
>> I wonder if this is connected with the following:
>> 
>>> ups.debug.S: 31 34 30 00 64 30 0d '140.d0.'
>> 
>> As I remember it, '4' is the status character representing "self-test status is unknown". You might need to do a deep discharge test first before the state-of-charge constants are programmed into the UPS.
>> 
>> If you can start a deep discharge test from the front panel, I'd try that first. Otherwise, there is a "test.battery.start" command in NUT which might be what you're looking for. However, bear in mind that this driver was written without the benefit of protocol documentation.
>> 
> 
> Charles,
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me.  I thought I did a battery test from
> the front panel some time ago.  Just to be sure, I did another test
> from the panel and a test by test.battery.start.  It doesn't seem to
> help with the battery.charge.  Part of upsc output is
> 
> battery.charge: 0
> battery.test.status: Battery OK
> battery.voltage: 25.20
> ...
> ups.debug.S: 31 30 30 00 00 30 0d '100..0.'

OK. Not really sure what to tell you - that 5th byte is what is converted to state-of-charge, and your original post had 64 when battery.charge was 100%.

If you have a Windows system handy (might work in VirtualBox or VMWare), you can compare with the regular Tripp Lite software.

> In any case, I can probably live with this.  But I'm really troubled
> with the fact that the NUT daemon didn't issue the shutdown command,
> even though Do you have any thoughts on this?  Is it possible that the
> user "nut" doesn't have the privilege to shutdown?


I misread the part where you mentioned that you got the low battery signal - I was thinking "on battery".

upsmon is designed to be started as root, and when it forks, it leaves behind a parent process that retains root privileges:

http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsmon.html#_reloading_nuances

If SHUTDOWNCMD is a script, check permissions on it. (Even root needs execute permissions on scripts - it's only the read/write permissions that it can override.) Also, the next section in the above URL mentions 'upsmon -c fsd', which can be used to test the shutdown sequence without draining the UPS.

Are you building from source, or installing a package?

-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail