Nut upsuser - Dec 2022 - NUT & UPS, how to shut down client after 2 min on battery?

Hi!


Some systems I have take some time to shut down, so I would like them to shut
down if the UPS have been on battery for 2 minutes.


Internet has told me that SHUTDOWNCMD ?/sbin/shutdown -h +0? in
/etc/nut/upsmon.conf will execute when the UPS is both OB (on battery) and LB
(Low battery). Like in wiki.ipfire.org - Detailed NUT
Configuration<https://wiki.ipfire.org/addons/nut/detailed> where it says

?SHUTDOWNCMD ?/sbin/shutdown -h +0? this command will be triggered if UPS sends
the BL (Battery Low) flag.?

But I would like to be on the safest side, and not hope ?low battery? is enough
time to shut down. So 2 minutes sound much more safe for paranoid me.


I do not know much about NUT, but after some Googling, one idea I have is to in
/etc/nut/upsmon.conf on client change to this

NOTIFYCMD "/etc/nut/shutdown_script.sh"
NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT EXEC


And then in /etc/nut/shutdown_script.sh have something like this

#!/bin/bash

poll_interval=5
wait_time=120
counter=0
no_wait_time=60
no_counter=0

while true
do
  output=$(upsc qnapups at 192.168.222.252 ups.status)
  if echo "$output" | grep -q "OB"
  then
    counter=$((counter + poll_interval))
    no_counter=0
  else
    counter=0
    no_counter=$((no_counter + poll_interval))
  fi
  if [ $counter -ge $wait_time ]
  then
    echo "Still outoput OB = On Battery, after 2 min. I will now shut
down"
        # Here I will shutdown the system
        # "/sbin/shutdown -h +0"
    break
  fi
  if [ $no_counter -ge $no_wait_time ]
  then
    echo "Have not seen OB for 1 min, so quiting the script"
    break
  fi
  sleep $poll_interval
done


But now I am starting to wonder if I am overdoing this. Surely there must
already be a ready-made solution for this in NUT somewhere, but I have just
searched with wrong words i Google.


Have any of you done something similar with NUT, and what is the right way to do
it?


/raffe

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On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, Rafael Reinoso via Nut-upsuser
wrote:
> 
> Some systems I have take some time to shut down, so I would like them to
shut
> down if the UPS have been on battery for 2 minutes.
Have a look at chapter 7 of the NUT Configuration Examples at 
https://rogerprice.org/NUT/ConfigExamples.A5.pdf

Roger

On 2022-12-22 05:47, Rafael Reinoso via Nut-upsuser
wrote:
> I do not know much about NUT, but after some Googling, one idea I have 
> is to in /etc/nut/upsmon.conf on client change to this
> 
> |NOTIFYCMD "/etc/nut/shutdown_script.sh" NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT EXEC |
> 
> And then in /etc/nut/shutdown_script.sh have something like this
> 
Hi Raffe, I had a very similar setup to this for a long time until I 
recently changed it; I will describe what I used to do and why I don't 
set a timer like this anymore.

In /etc/ups/upsmon.conf (my system is Fedora) I captured three events:
    NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE   SYSLOG+EXEC
    NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT   SYSLOG+EXEC
    NOTIFYFLAG LOWBATT  SYSLOG+EXEC
    NOTIFYCMD /usr/sbin/upssched

The key thing here is I am not calling a bash script directly with 
NOTIFYCMD, but delegating it to the built in upssched process which has 
timer functionality (and is packaged with nut in Fedora).

In /etc/ups/upssched.conf, the key options are:
    CMDSCRIPT /usr/local/bin/upsmon-execscript.sh
    AT ONBATT * START-TIMER shutdown_onbatt 600
    AT ONLINE * CANCEL-TIMER shutdown_onbatt

As you can see it starts a 10 minute timer, and cancels the timer if 
mains power is restored.  The bash script is similar to yours, but 
benefits from not having to do any time management of its own or count 
how long it has been running.  upssched does that for you, and simply 
calls your script when the listed events occur and with the timer of 
your choosing.

Here is the problem with this approach in general:
  - what happens if I boot my server while already on battery, and
    the battery is low?  My script won't do anything for 10 minutes
  - what happens if the power repeatedly cycles on/off/on/off?
    10 more minutes are granted every time, which again leaves you
    in a dangerous situation

My current approach is to have my server turn off when the UPS hits 40% 
battery.  I have redefined the "lowbatt" signal to a very comfortable 
40%, so there is plenty of time to shutdown and still plenty of battery 
left for charging other things like my cellphone etc.

The way to accomplish this is in /etc/ups/ups.conf, under your ups 
configuration put:
    ignorelb
    override.battery.charge.low=40

This seems safer to me because it's based on the actual capacity 
remaining, and not an arbitrary timer.

Hope this helps, and happy new years!
Matt

Now I have this in /etc/nut/upsmon.conf (my QNAP NAS wants admin and 123456 or
not working)


RUN_AS_USER root
MONITOR qnapups at localhost 1 admin 123456 master
MONITOR qnapups at 192.168.222.252 3493 admin 123456 slave
MINSUPPLIES 1
SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -h +0"
POLLFREQ 5
POLLFREQALERT 5
HOSTSYNC 15
DEADTIME 15
POWERDOWNFLAG /etc/killpower

NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE SYSLOG+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT SYSLOG+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG LOWBATT SYSLOG+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG REPLBATT SYSLOG+EXEC
NOTIFYCMD /usr/sbin/upssched

RBWARNTIME 43200
NOCOMMWARNTIME 300
FINALDELAY 5




And in /etc/nut/upssched.conf (changed from 2 min to 4 min)



CMDSCRIPT /etc/nut/upssched-execscript.sh

PIPEFN /etc/nut/upssched.pipe
LOCKFN /etc/nut/upssched.lock

AT ONBATT * START-TIMER shutdown_onbatt 240
AT ONBATT * EXECUTE info_onbatt

AT ONLINE * CANCEL-TIMER shutdown_onbatt
AT ONLINE * EXECUTE ups-back-on-power

AT LOWBATT * EXECUTE shutdown_lowbatt

AT REPLBATT * EXECUTE replace_batt




And in /etc/nut/upssched-execscript.sh



#! /bin/sh
case $1 in
    shutdown_onbatt)
        logger -t upsmon[upssched] "shutdown_onbatt): Triggering shutdown
after 4 minutes on battery"
        /sbin/shutdown -h +0
        ;;

    shutdown_lowbatt)
        logger -t upsmon[upssched] "shutdown_lowbatt): Triggering shutdown
when battery.charge.low is under 50%"
        /sbin/shutdown -h +0
        ;;

    info_onbatt)
        logger -t upsmon[upssched] "info_onbatt): Now on battery"
        ;;

    ups-back-on-power)
        logger -t upsmon[upssched] "ups-back-on-power): UPS back on
power"
        ;;

    replace_batt)
        message="Quick self-test indicates battery requires
replacement"
        logger -t upsmon[upssched] "replace_batt): $message"
        ;;

    *)
        logger -t upsmon[upssched] "*) = Unrecognized command: $1"
        ;;
esac




And in /etc/nut/ups.conf


[qnapups]
    driver = usbhid-ups
    port = auto
    desc = "UPS"
    ignorelb
    override.battery.charge.low=50




So I have these files

[root at ipfire2 nut]# pwd
/etc/nut
[root at ipfire2 nut]# ls -la
total 104
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan 10 09:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 50 root root  4096 Jan 10 10:33 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1542 Jan 10 09:05 nut.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1538 Dec 18  2020 nut.conf.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4734 Jan 10 09:10 ups.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4618 Dec 18  2020 ups.conf.sample
-rw-r-----  1 root root  4606 Dec 22 08:44 upsd.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4578 Dec 18  2020 upsd.conf.sample
-rw-r-----  1 root root  2292 Dec 22 07:11 upsd.users
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2131 Dec 18  2020 upsd.users.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 15569 Jan 10 10:20 upsmon.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 15313 Dec 18  2020 upsmon.conf.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4173 Jan 10 10:22 upssched.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3895 Dec 18  2020 upssched.conf.sample
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   810 Jan 10 10:29 upssched-execscript.sh


Do all that seem right to you?

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