Here are three wishes for the future of upsmon:
1. The NOTIFYMSG texts should allow UTF-8 encoded messages.
2. The flags used in NOTIFYFLAG should be extended to include USER. This
flag says that the message is to be sent to the notify daemon, perhaps
with the command
notify-send -a NUT -t 604800000 -u critical <message>
This will allow the users of a workstation to see the message. The
program wall is ignored by display environments such as Gnome and KDE. The
current solution requires upssched and upssched-cmd just to put up a
simple message.
3. The NOTIFYMSG and NOTIFYFLAG directives in upsmon.conf should be
extended to specify the UPS name, as is already done for the AF directives
in upssched.conf. This will make it possible to have actions and messages
which are different for different UPSes. The current solution requires
turning off upsmon logging and notification for all UPSes in the presence
of a busy UPS such as a heartbeart.
Roger
