Nut upsuser - Aug 2012 - How to set a UPS variable

queequeg says hi.  :)

I am trying to set a UPS variable, specifically outlet.1.delay.shutdown

I've been all over the online docs.  I have found the full listing of
the various variables that I can set.  I've read the page that says,

.....................

C. NUT command and variable naming scheme

This is a dump of the standard variables and command names used in NUT.
Don?t use a name with any of the dstate functions unless it exists
here.

If you need a new variable or command name, contact the Development
Team first.

Put another way: if you make up a name that?s not in this list and it
gets into the tree, and then we come up with a better name later,
clients that use the undocumented variable will break when it is
changed.

......................


The question I have is, how do I set the outlet.1.delay.shutdown
variable to the value I want?  Am I missing something obvious in the
docs?  Does it go into one of the config files?  Do I have to run a
separate program?

Thanks in advance.

On Aug 10, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Mike. wrote:
> I am trying to set a UPS variable, specifically outlet.1.delay.shutdown
You need upsrw: http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsrw.html

Unlike upsc, you will also need to define a NUT user/password pair in upsd.users
which has permissions to write variables ("actions = set"):
http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsd.users.html

Let us know if you have any further questions.

-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail

On 8/10/2012 at 4:53 PM Charles Lepple wrote:

|On Aug 10, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Mike. wrote:
|
|> I am trying to set a UPS variable, specifically
outlet.1.delay.shutdown
|
|You need upsrw: http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsrw.html
|
|Unlike upsc, you will also need to define a NUT user/password pair in
|upsd.users which has permissions to write variables ("actions =
set"):
|http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsd.users.html
|
|Let us know if you have any further questions.
|
|-- 
|Charles Lepple
|clepple at gmail
 ============

Thanks for the quick reply.  That man page looks like all I need.

If I may suggest that a quick reference to the upsrw man page be placed
somewhere on the 

 http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/ar01s08.html#_n
ut_outlet_data_collection

page because "[t]his chapter introduces how to manage outlets in
general, and how to take advantage of the provided features."  Such a
reference would have been very helpful.


Thanks again for the assist.

Mike.