Nut upsuser - Aug 2013 - Question marks in Broadcast Messages

I'm setting up a NUT server. During testing, I have deployed it on both 
CentOS and SUSE. I have both servers looking at two physical UPSs and 
two "dummy" UPSs.

My NUT client is running on Solaris and is rigged to look at the
"dummy"
UPSs.

As I toggle states on the dummy UPSs, the client correctly detects the 
changes and throws a message of the type:
> Broadcast Message from ups (???) on nut Wed Aug 28 13:57:08...
> UPS dummy at upsmon on line power
The messages are of the same form regardless of the source server.

What is the meaning of the (???) in that message? Is it a place holder 
for some value or attribute in the UPS driver I have not configured 
correct?

I have only seen these messages with the "dummy" UPS because it is the
only driver I can actually manipulate.

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John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Enterprise Technology Services
Department of Administration
State of Alaska

On Aug 28, 2013, at 6:05 PM, John Thurston wrote:
> I'm setting up a NUT server. During testing, I have deployed it on both
CentOS and SUSE. I have both servers looking at two physical UPSs and two
"dummy" UPSs.
> 
> My NUT client is running on Solaris and is rigged to look at the
"dummy" UPSs.
> 
> As I toggle states on the dummy UPSs, the client correctly detects the
changes and throws a message of the type:
>> Broadcast Message from ups (???) on nut Wed Aug 28 13:57:08...
>> UPS dummy at upsmon on line power
> 
> The messages are of the same form regardless of the source server.
> 
> What is the meaning of the (???) in that message? Is it a place holder for
some value or attribute in the UPS driver I have not configured correct?

I think that part of the output is controlled by the 'wall' command. If
you run 'wall' from a command line, does it display your current TTY?
The current TTY isn't defined once a process daemonizes.

The wall output is optional, especially if you have your own NOTIFYCMD defined
in upsmon.conf.

http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsmon.conf.html

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Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail