[Nut-upsuser] driver for HP/Compaq T750 ?

2009-02-25 Thread KP Kirchdoerfer
Hi,

I own a UPS HP T750.

Is there a driver for this UPS (either serial or USB)?

thx kp

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[Nut-upsuser] ups.delay.shutdown clarification

2009-02-25 Thread Des Dougan
A client of mine has an APC Back-UPS 350 model (USB connected). His  
office had a power incident yesterday, where there was an interruption  
of about 30 seconds. During that time, the server shut down. As soon  
as it went on battery, the daemon initiated a shutdown. In checking it  
today, I see the ups.delay.shutdown setting is -1. I tried to adjust  
it, but could not do so.

What does the -1 setting mean? I Googled, but couldn't find anything  
relevant. Am I correct in assuming it is this setting that caused the  
immediate shutdown? Today, the UPS shows a load of 35, via the upsc  
command, so it doesn't appear it was overloaded.

Thanks,

Des
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Re: [Nut-upsuser] ups.delay.shutdown clarification

2009-02-25 Thread Rob MacGregor
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 19:13, Des Dougan d...@douganconsulting.com wrote:
 A client of mine has an APC Back-UPS 350 model (USB connected). His
 office had a power incident yesterday, where there was an interruption
 of about 30 seconds. During that time, the server shut down. As soon
 as it went on battery, the daemon initiated a shutdown. In checking it
 today, I see the ups.delay.shutdown setting is -1. I tried to adjust
 it, but could not do so.

 What does the -1 setting mean? I Googled, but couldn't find anything
 relevant. Am I correct in assuming it is this setting that caused the
 immediate shutdown? Today, the UPS shows a load of 35, via the upsc
 command, so it doesn't appear it was overloaded.

However you may find that it almost immediately hit low battery (LB)
due to an aged and failing battery - a not uncommon problem.

You need to do a test to find out if that is the problem.  The real
world test is, of course, to pull the power from the UPS (while
watching the charge of the UPS).  More practically is to move
everything off the UPS and plug in a load (one or 2 100W light bulbs)
and do the same test, but not risking the server ;)

You'll find chapter and verse on this in the list archive.

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Re: [Nut-upsuser] ups.delay.shutdown clarification

2009-02-25 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren Des Dougan d...@douganconsulting.com:

 A client of mine has an APC Back-UPS 350 model (USB connected). His
 office had a power incident yesterday, where there was an interruption
 of about 30 seconds. During that time, the server shut down. As soon
 as it went on battery, the daemon initiated a shutdown. In checking it
 today, I see the ups.delay.shutdown setting is -1. I tried to adjust
 it, but could not do so.

 What does the -1 setting mean?

It means no shutdown delay value has been configured. I already wrote  
that we'll need the NUT version and OS to determine what *exactly* is  
going on.

 I Googled, but couldn't find anything
 relevant. Am I correct in assuming it is this setting that caused the
 immediate shutdown?

No, the decision to shut the system down is unrelated to the  
ups.delay.shutdown value. Most likely (but see the note above), the  
UPS firmware is broken and it signals low battery right after the  
power is lost. NUT has no other option than to initiate system  
shutdown in that case. Note that the Back-UPS 350 is a *very* small  
entry level UPS that really shouldn't be used for anything other than  
small desktop systems.

 Today, the UPS shows a load of 35, via the upsc
 command, so it doesn't appear it was overloaded.

Maybe, maybe not. The only way to conclusively tell why NUT decided to  
shutdown the system is to run the driver in debug mode. It will  
probably confirm the above.

Best regards, Arjen
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Re: [Nut-upsuser] driver for HP/Compaq T750 ?

2009-02-25 Thread Charles Lepple
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:54 PM, KP Kirchdoerfer
kap...@bering-uclibc.de wrote:
 Hi,

 I own a UPS HP T750.

 Is there a driver for this UPS (either serial or USB)?

As you may have already seen, we don't have an entry for this UPS in
data/drivers.list yet.

However, HP often repackages other vendors' equipment. Does the
documentation mention what software is used to monitor the UPS on
Windows? Often this is a clue as to what is inside.

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