[Nut-upsuser] battery not installed, but battery still 100% and NUT 2.7.2-4 does not catch this and report a error

[Tim Dawson]

Which gets back to the original point I was trying to make. Iy the UPS does a load test (and I'm pretty certain My SmartUPS can, if enabled), you know the battery is failing *before* something face-plants, thus *reducing* risk! I test on all mine, and have never in 15+ years of doing so, had anything go down unintentionally . . . The fact that you have not tested is why you find yourself with such a bad battery . . .

- Tim

On April 3, 2017 3:39:30 PM CDT, "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at gathman.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>>>> Nut, IIRC, can do a periodic battery test by putting it offline,
>>>> using the battery, for a predetermined length of time, weekly,
>>>> monthly etc,
>>>
>>> We definitely don't want that in this instance either!
>>
>> Why not? If the battery has a holdup time of 5 minutes when its
>fresh,
>
>Because in this instance it crashes your system, corrupts filesystems,
>etc, etc.
>
>>> We want the ALARM that the nut driver is
>>> generating, and upsd is passing on - to be acted on in some way by
>>> upsmon.  Which NOTIFYCMD is run when there is an ALARM?
>>
>> I've not read the docs in ages, but if there isn't something
>mentioned in
>> a man upsmon, I would be unpleasantly surprised.
>>
>> According to my copy, it does a -wall (warn all) by default, and it
>looks
>> like REPLBATT is one such message, and the default time for a repeat
>is
>> 12 hours.  The -wall type message shows on every open terminal on the
>> system's network, so someone should see it.  From the upsmon.conf
>file:
>
>That would be great if "we" (the original poster) were getting a
>REPLBATT...
>
>> NOTIFYCMD command
>... long winded reiteration of man pages....
>
>I think what we have here is a bug/oversight in upsmon, which we might
>be able
>to create a nice test case for using the dummy-ups driver.  It is not 
>clear if it can generate the composite status "ALARM OL", but I will
>try
>in a bit.  If it can't, maybe a patch for dummy-ups is in order.
>
>-- 
> 	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at gathman.org>
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