[Nut-upsuser] Data Stale issue

[Roger Price]

On Mon, 6 May 2019, Gareth Davies wrote:

> Just another thing I wanted to mention... once I've resolved the 
> aforementioned issues, would it be possible for the system to run without any 
> maintenance or checking up on it? What I mean is, once I've plugged it into my 
> grandmother's house, I'd like to leave it running and forget about it 
> basically - in the knowledge and trust it would notify us if there's ever a 
> power cut!

If you want to trust your setup, you need to guard against a silent failure, 
particularly if you have carers and cleaners with access to the equipment. I 
suggest you run a heartbeat check for example using NUT as described at 
http://rogerprice.org/NUT/ConfigExamples.A5.pdf chapter 6, together with a daily 
cron job which checks that the heartbeat is running, and sends you an e-mail if 
all is well.

Roger