I wanted to suggest some rating for functionality. I got the UPS available that seemed to have the best possible rating from NUT's list (Eaton Powerware UPS 1500), and found out it doesn't support telling me battery level or runtime! :/ Luke
Hi Luke, I'm looking at buying an Eaton EX 3000 - also with a good rating on the compatibility list. My main need is to shut down gracefully my Debian servers. Were you able to get that working? Could you do it at a specific % remaining battery if you couldn't get the battery level? *Paul O'Rorke* Tracker Software Products paul at tracker-software.com <mailto:paul.ororke at tracker-software.com>On 9/18/2013 1:02 PM, Luke-Jr wrote:> I wanted to suggest some rating for functionality. I got the UPS available > that seemed to have the best possible rating from NUT's list (Eaton Powerware > UPS 1500), and found out it doesn't support telling me battery level or > runtime! :/ > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Nut-upsuser mailing list > Nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20130918/b90c5444/attachment.html>
On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 8:08:01 PM Paul O'Rorke wrote:> I'm looking at buying an Eaton EX 3000 - also with a good rating on the > compatibility list. My main need is to shut down gracefully my Debian > servers. Were you able to get that working? Could you do it at a > specific % remaining battery if you couldn't get the battery level?I didn't try; I don't trust automatic shutdown stuff in general. The only indication of battery level at all, is a "low battery" boolean.
Luke-Jr wrote, On 9/18/2013 1:02 PM:> I wanted to suggest some rating for functionality. I got the UPS available > that seemed to have the best possible rating from NUT's list (Eaton Powerware > UPS 1500), and found out it doesn't support telling me battery level or > runtime! :/I'm avoiding Eaton/Powerware because the lack of usbhid support, the bcmxcp driver doesn't report much, but I have heard that someone is working on it. Also a PW5110 500 (to replace a APC RS 500) runs much warmer than I would like. I'm used to the APC RS line-interactive units and they don't get nearly as hot. Otherwise, the Eaton/MGE UPS's have been great, a 5PX and an Evolution. The 5PX is kind of a cross, it has usbhid support and Powerware's better battery management feature. I tested the mge-shut (serial) driver on the 5PX, the functionality and reported values appear identical.
On 19/09/13 01:30, Kris Jordan wrote:> Luke-Jr wrote, On 9/18/2013 1:02 PM: >> I wanted to suggest some rating for functionality. I got the UPS >> available >> that seemed to have the best possible rating from NUT's list (Eaton >> Powerware >> UPS 1500), and found out it doesn't support telling me battery level or >> runtime! :/ > > I'm avoiding Eaton/Powerware because the lack of usbhid support, the > bcmxcp driver doesn't report muchbootc at tarquin ~ $ upsc pw9120 ambient.temperature: 10 ambient.temperature.high: 40 battery.charge: 100 battery.runtime: 720 battery.voltage: 26.0 device.mfr: Eaton device.model: PW9120 700i device.serial: RY346A0036 device.type: ups driver.name: bcmxcp_usb driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2 driver.parameter.port: auto driver.parameter.shutdown_delay: 60 driver.version: 2.6.5 driver.version.internal: 0.26 input.frequency: 50.0 input.frequency.high: 52 input.frequency.low: 48 input.frequency.nominal: 50 input.transfer.boost.high: 184 input.transfer.high: 276 input.transfer.low: 160 input.transfer.trim.low: 264 input.voltage: 245 input.voltage.nominal: 230 outlet.1.delay.shutdown: -1 outlet.1.delay.start: 0 outlet.1.id: 1 outlet.1.status: On outlet.2.delay.shutdown: -1 outlet.2.delay.start: 0 outlet.2.id: 2 outlet.2.status: On output.current: 2.1 output.current.nominal: 3.0 output.frequency: 50.0 output.phases: 1 output.voltage: 231 output.voltage.nominal: 230 ups.beeper.status: disabled ups.firmware: Cont:02.60 Inve:02.60 ups.load: 65.6 ups.mfr: Eaton ups.model: PW9120 700i ups.power: 459 ups.power.nominal: 700 ups.serial: RY346A0036 ups.status: OL ups.test.result: Done and passed It doesn't?> but I have heard that someone is > working on it.Eaton actually employs the NUT project lead, Arnaud Quette, so yes it's safe to say someone is working on NUT and the bcmxcp driver. With that said, the Eaton logo is now conspicuously absent from the NUT home page. Eaton is still mentioned on http://www.networkupstools.org/acknowledgements.html and NUT is mentioned on http://powerquality.eaton.com/opensource/Default.asp HTH, Chris -- Chris Boot bootc at bootc.net
On 09/19/2013 02:30 AM, Kris Jordan wrote:> Luke-Jr wrote, On 9/18/2013 1:02 PM: >> I wanted to suggest some rating for functionality. I got the UPS >> available >> that seemed to have the best possible rating from NUT's list (Eaton >> Powerware >> UPS 1500), and found out it doesn't support telling me battery level or >> runtime! :/ > > I'm avoiding Eaton/Powerware because the lack of usbhid support, the > bcmxcp driver doesn't report much, but I have heard that someone is > working on it. Also a PW5110 500 (to replace a APC RS 500) runs much > warmer than I would like. I'm used to the APC RS line-interactive > units and they don't get nearly as hot. > > Otherwise, the Eaton/MGE UPS's have been great, a 5PX and an > Evolution. The 5PX is kind of a cross, it has usbhid support and > Powerware's better battery management feature. > > I tested the mge-shut (serial) driver on the 5PX, the functionality > and reported values appear identical. > > _______________________________________________ > Nut-upsuser mailing list > Nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuserI have a Eaton 5110, and I have been working on adding functionality to the bcmxcp driver. With my changes, the 5110 reports a bit more information, but not "battery.runtime", that information is not supported by the hardware. I guess the 5110 is one of the most basic models, and provides not too much info. Unfortunately, my 5110 had a hardware failure a month ago, so I have not been able to do further work. But I have ordered an Eaton 9130, which also supports bcmxcp, so I will continue testing on that one in a couple of weeks. With my driver changes, the driver should report everything the hardware is capable of supporting. My changes have not been merged to the master branch of nut yet. Some work has been merged to https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/tree/bcmxcp, and the rest of my changes are at https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/pull/47 I have no relationship to Eaton, I have just bought their product because they provide open documentation on how their protocols work, and work nicely with the nut software. Regards Alf Hogemark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20130919/a4ef9a85/attachment.html>