Nut upsuser - Jul 2022 - Shutdown ESXi and QNAP from NUT server on Raspberry PI

Hi All,

I have a Raspberry PI running NUT 2.8.0 talking to a CyberPower CP1500AVRLCDa,
and all is working good there.

I have a standalone ESXI 7.3 server that has the NUT Client running on it and a
QNAP 6-Bay NAS that is all running a NUT client.

When I pull power from the UPS I would like the ESXI server to shutdown when the
batter reaches 50% capacity.   This is issue that I have not been able to get to
work out yet.
The setting in the NUT client is how fast to shutdown ESXi when it gets the
lower batter warning.    But when I get that warning, which the UPS shutdown
immediately and I don?t have
time to shutdown ESXI and then also have the QNAP shutdown.   The QNAP only has
a setting for it to shutdown after a certain number of minutes after loss of
line power.

Any information on how to configure this so that ESXI shutdowns first and then
the QNAP can shutdown afterwards would be great.

Thanks
Mike

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022, Mike Schaffner via Nut-upsuser
wrote:
> I have a Raspberry PI running NUT 2.8.0 talking to a CyberPower
CP1500AVRLCDa,
> and all is working good there.
This is how I understand your setup:

    ,------,
    |CP1500|=======Pi  + NUT server + client   OK
    '------'       |
                  Lan
                   |-------ESXI + NUT client   Shutdown at 50%
                   |-------QNAP + NUT client
> I have a standalone ESXI 7.3 server that has the NUT Client running on it
and
> a QNAP 6-Bay NAS that is all running a NUT client.
>
> When I pull power from the UPS I would like the ESXI server to shutdown
when
> the batter reaches 50% capacity.  This is issue that I have not been able
to
> get to work out yet.
> The setting in the NUT client is how fast to shutdown ESXi when it gets the
> lower batter warning.  But when I get that warning, which the UPS shutdown 
> immediately
Could you show us the NUT client configuration on ESXI?  upsmon, upssched and 
upssched-cmd if you use it.
> and I don?t have time to shutdown ESXI and then also have the QNAP
shutdown.
I don't understand, surely the ESXI and the QNAP are independent of one
another
for their shutdown behaviour?
> The QNAP only has a setting for it to shutdown after a certain number of 
> minutes after loss of line power.
This is surprizing.  If the QNAP is running a NUT client, why is it limited to 
just a number of minutes, and not using the battery charge?

Roger