UPSMON independent shutdown.

[4o4rh]

My J1900 box is in the basement, while my nas and ups are upstairs.

I have point the nas, upstairs switch on the APC UPS with freenas.
I point a 2A mini UPS downstairs on the switch and J1900.

UPSMON is running and can read all the data from the APC UPS via freenas.

According to my UPS, it should have about 1hr battery time, which i very much doubt the mini UPS would have.

I want the miniUPS to shutdown after about 10min on battery independent of the APC UPS.

Is there are config/parameter/way to achieve that?

[stephenw10]

I assume the mini-ups does not have any coms to it?

So you want pfSense to shutdown 10mins after the power fails at your NAS regardless of whether or not pfSense has actually lost power?

The upssched component on NUT should be able to do that. I've not tried it but it looks like you'd have to pass that via upsmon.conf custom field.

Steve

[4o4rh]

@stephenw10 correct, no comms. If the power failed at my NAS, it means 99.9% of the time, the power has failed for the whole house. the nas is connected to an APC 1500 so will last 30 - 60 minutes.

The mini-UPS are the same size as the power adapter of the J1900 and unintelligent. As i can't know when the battery will fail, for safety i would shutdown the J1900 after 10min

https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Uninterruptable-Function-100V-240V-Wireless/dp/B07W8MCBMS?th=1

[stephenw10]

Ok well you should be able to do it using upssched. You may have to add it manually though I'm not sure anything is added via the package. There is nothing in /usr/local/etc/nut/upssched.conf by default.

Steve

[4o4rh]

@stephenw10
i created in the Filer package
/usr/local/etc/nut/upssched.conf 0644 UPS Shutdown Scheduler

CMDSCRIPT /usr/local/bin/upssched-cmd
PIPEFN /var/db/nut/upssched.pipe
LOCKFN /var/db/nut/upssched.lock
AT NOCOMM * EXECUTE EMAIL
AT COMMBAD * START-TIMER COMMBAD 10
AT COMMOK * CANCEL-TIMER COMMBAD COMMOK
AT FSD * EXECUTE EMAIL
AT LOWBATT * EXECUTE EMAIL
AT ONBATT * START-TIMER ONBATT 120
AT ONBATT * EXECUTE EMAIL
AT ONLINE * CANCEL-TIMER ONBATT ONLINE
AT ONLINE * EXECUTE EMAIL
AT REPLBATT * EXECUTE EMAIL
AT SHUTDOWN * EXECUTE EMAIL

upsmon contents are

MONITOR ups@nas.net.lan 1 upsmon abc123 slave
SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -p +0"
POWERDOWNFLAG /etc/killpower

i don't think this is working, but not sure how to simulate test it.

[stephenw10]

Do you see anything logged in reaction to any of those events? Going On-Battery for example?
Is NUT in pfSense actually monitoring the remote UPS as expected?

Steve

[4o4rh]

@stephenw10 nut is correctly monitoring the UPS on the nas box. I see on the UPS Status screen the device go offline if i shutdown the nas box for example, or if it runs a self-test

[stephenw10]

But it doesn't log the timer starting if the UPS goes on battery for example?

I have no way to test this unfortunately.

Steve

[4o4rh]

@stephenw10 so here is my config

upsmon.conf

NOTIFYCMD /usr/local/sbin/upssched
POLLFREQ 5
POLLFREQALERT 5
HOSTSYNC 15
DEADTIME 15

NOTIFYMSG ONLINE   "UPS %s: On line power."
NOTIFYMSG ONBATT   "UPS %s: On battery."
NOTIFYMSG LOWBATT  "UPS %s: Battery is low."
NOTIFYMSG REPLBATT "UPS %s: Battery needs to be replaced."
NOTIFYMSG FSD      "UPS %s: Forced shutdown in progress."
NOTIFYMSG SHUTDOWN "Auto logout and shutdown proceeding."
NOTIFYMSG COMMOK   "UPS %s: Communications (re-)established."
NOTIFYMSG COMMBAD  "UPS %s: Communications lost."
NOTIFYMSG NOCOMM   "UPS %s: Not available."
NOTIFYMSG NOPARENT "upsmon parent dead, shutdown impossible."

NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT   SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE   SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG LOWBATT  SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG COMMBAD  SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG COMMOK   SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG NOCOMM   SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG FSD      SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG SHUTDOWN SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG REPLBATT SYSLOG+WALL
NOTIFYFLAG NOPARENT SYSLOG+WALL

RBWARNTIME 43200
NOCOMMWARNTIME 300
FINALDELAY 5

upssched.conf (via filer package)

CMDSCRIPT /usr/local/bin/upssched-cmd
PIPEFN /var/db/nut/upssched.pipe
LOCKFN /var/db/nut/upssched.lock

AT ONBATT  * START-TIMER onbatt 300
AT ONLINE  * CANCEL-TIMER onbatt online
AT LOWBATT * EXECUTE lowbatt
AT COMMBAD  * START-TIMER commbad 30
AT COMMOK  * CANCEL-TIMER commbad commok
AT NOCOMM * EXECUTE commbad
AT FSD * EXECUTE powerdown
AT SHUTDOWN * EXECUTE powerdown

upssched-cmd

#! /bin/sh

UPS="ups"
STATUS=$( upsc $UPS ups.status )
CHARGE=$( upsc $UPS battery.charge )
CHMSG="[$STATUS]:$CHARGE%"

# upssched-cmd  --slave --
logger -i -t upssched-cmd Calling upssched-cmd $1

case $1 in
    online) 
    MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - power supply has been restored."
    ;;
    onbatt)
    MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - power failure - save your work!"
    ;;
    lowbatt) 
    MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - shutdown now!"
    ;;
    *) 
    logger -i -t upssched-cmd "Bad arg: \"$1\", $CHMSG"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac
logger -i -t upssched-cmd $MSG

log file is showing

Nov 8 10:08:49 	upssched 	44022 	exec_cmd(/usr/local/bin/upssched-cmd online) returned 127
Nov 8 10:08:49 	upssched-cmd 	44598 	UPS - power supply had been restored.
Nov 8 10:08:49 	upssched-cmd 	44492 	Calling upssched-cmd online
Nov 8 10:08:49 	upsmon 	61766 	UPS ups@nas.net.lan: On line power.
Nov 8 10:08:44 	upssched 	22770 	exec_cmd(/usr/local/bin/upssched-cmd onbatt) returned 127
Nov 8 10:08:44 	upssched-cmd 	23262 	UPS - power failure - save your work!
Nov 8 10:08:44 	upssched-cmd 	23007 	Calling upssched-cmd onbatt
Nov 8 10:08:44 	upsmon 	61766 	UPS ups@nas.net.lan: On battery. 

what is the
"upssched 44022 exec_cmd(/usr/local/bin/upssched-cmd online) returned 127"

[stephenw10]

That return code is usually telling you 'command not found' or similar.

Did you try running those from the command line?

The timer names seem to be defined in upper case but referenced as lower case.

Steve

[4o4rh]

@stephenw10 script doesn't do anything.

when running /usr/local/bin/upssched-cmd online, the prompt doesn't return and you have to ctl-c to break it.

[stephenw10]

It doesn't even write anything to the logs?

[4o4rh]

@stephenw10 here is what shows in the log

upssched 22770 exec_cmd(/usr/local/bin/upssched-cmd onbatt) returned 127
upssched-cmd 23262 UPS - power failure - save your work!
upssched-cmd 23007 Calling upssched-cmd onbatt
upsmon 61766 UPS ups@nas.net.lan: On battery.

after further searching, i found that some of the lines were missing the open bracket, but the bigger issue is, this is a bash script (which is not installed). I have no idea how to convert it to sh

#!/usr/local/bin/bash -u
logger -i -t upssched-cmd Calling upssched-cmd $1

UPS="eapeups"
STATUS=$( upsc $UPS ups.status )
CHARGE=$( upsc $UPS battery.charge )
CHMSG="[$STATUS]:$CHARGE%"

case $1 in
    (online)  MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - power supply has been restored." ;;
    (onbatt)  MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - power failure - save your work!" ;;
    (lowbatt) MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - shutdown now!" ;;
(*) logger -i -t upssched-cmd "Bad arg: \"$1\", $CHMSG"
    exit 1 ;;
esac
logger -i -t upssched-cmd $MSG

[stephenw10]

You can install bash if you really need to.
What part fails id you use sh?

Steve

[Gertjan]

@gwaitsi said in UPSMON independent shutdown.:

but the bigger issue is, this is a bash script

Although bash is probably a more powerful shell, I guess the script's syntax could be re written in sh syntax.

[4o4rh]

@Gertjan is that something you could help with pls? i would have no clue as i am not familiar with either

[Gertjan]

First things first : extreme, but you won't regret it : do not use the build in GUI file editor.
Use a console or better : ssh access. You'll be having full control, you can see file permissions, attributes etc.

The GUI file editor is only used by experts ... and they probably use when they want to fly blind.

@gwaitsi said in UPSMON independent shutdown.:

but the bigger issue is, this is a bash script (which is not installed)

I'm experimenting right now with this upssched-cmd ....
See here https://dan.langille.org/2020/09/07/monitoring-your-ups-using-nut-on-freebsd/ for guidelines and the entire https://networkupstools.org/ .....

Be careful : you've seen that pfSense (re) creates /usr/local/etc/nut/upsmon.conf and other .conf files in that dircetory. Use the GUI NUT pages to add your own lines to these files.

[4o4rh]

@Gertjan hi, I created my files a linux text editor. I copied and pasted them into the filer package.

/usr/local/etc/nut/upssched.conf 	0644 	UPS Shutdown Scheduler Configuration 	
	 
/usr/local/bin/upssched-cmd 	0755 	UPS Shutdown Scheduler Command Script

The extra upsmon script commands were added to the advanced tab.
the log clearly shows the script is being triggered, but just i don't know what i am doing with the scripts to be able to convert it.

[Gertjan]

@gwaitsi said in UPSMON independent shutdown.:

hi, I created my files a linux text editor

Again : use ssh directly, you'll feel @home right away.

I advise you to execute this on pfSEnse :

pkg install nano

I guess you know who 'nano' is ;)

I don't know what you mean with

/usr/local/etc/nut/upssched.conf 	0644 	UPS Shutdown Scheduler Configuration 	
	 
/usr/local/bin/upssched-cmd 	0755 	UPS Shutdown Scheduler Command Script

Btw : I have a Back-UPS 700 APC ups, hooked up using a USB cable.

These are my settings :

upsmon.conf : the strict minimum, as the other settings in upsmon.conf will be set to default. see upsmon.conf.example for the values.

The upsd.conf contains the LAN IPv4 and IPv6, as my pfSense NUT us a UPS master - I have a disk station NAS being the NUT slave.

The upsd.users section shows the login details of the NAS.

My /usr/local/etc/nut/upssched.conf file :

-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    649 Nov 12 15:36 upssched-cmd

CMDSCRIPT /usr/local/etc/nut/upssched-cmd
PIPEFN /var/db/nut/upssched.pipe
LOCKFN /var/db/nut/upssched.lock

AT ONBATT  * START-TIMER onbatt 20
AT ONLINE  * CANCEL-TIMER onbatt online
AT LOWBATT * EXECUTE lowbatt
AT COMMBAD  * START-TIMER commbad 30
AT COMMOK  * CANCEL-TIMER commbad commok
AT NOCOMM * EXECUTE commbad
AT FSD * EXECUTE powerdown
AT SHUTDOWN * EXECUTE powerdown

Take note of the location of the "CMDSCRIPT " file : /usr/local/etc/nut/upssched-cmd file

See also : "onbatt 20" which means that I receive notifications by mail etc after "20 sec" - not the default 300 seconds.

Here is /usr/local/etc/nut/upssched-cmd file :

#! /bin/sh

UPS="ups"
STATUS=$( upsc $UPS ups.status )
CHARGE=$( upsc $UPS battery.charge )
CHMSG="[$STATUS]:$CHARGE%"

# upssched-cmd  --slave --
logger -i -t upssched-cmd Calling upssched-cmd $1

case $1 in
    online) 
    MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - power supply has been restored."
    ;;
    onbatt)
    MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - power failure - save your work!"
    ;;
    lowbatt) 
    MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - shutdown now!"
    ;;
	upsgone)
	MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - UPS has been gone for awhile"
	;;
    *) 
    logger -i -t upssched-cmd "Bad arg: \"$1\", $CHMSG"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac
logger -i -t upssched-cmd $MSG

This is logged when I pull the plug :

Read from bottom to top.
I received the mails.

[4o4rh]

@Gertjan said in UPSMON independent shutdown.:

#! /bin/sh

UPS="ups"
STATUS=$( upsc $UPS ups.status )
CHARGE=$( upsc $UPS battery.charge )
CHMSG="[$STATUS]:$CHARGE%"

upssched-cmd --slave --

logger -i -t upssched-cmd Calling upssched-cmd $1

case $1 in
online)
MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - power supply has been restored."
;;
onbatt)
MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - power failure - save your work!"
;;
lowbatt)
MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - shutdown now!"
;;
upsgone)
MSG="$UPS, $CHMSG - UPS has been gone for awhile"
;;
*)
logger -i -t upssched-cmd "Bad arg: "$1", $CHMSG"
exit 1
;;
esac
logger -i -t upssched-cmd $MSG

i will give it a shot.

fyi - If you use nano to create upssched.conf and upssched-cmd the files will be lost if you have to re-install.

If you install the "Filer" package, you can create those files under the Diagnostics menu and the contents will be saved to config.xml, so you can transfer the settings to a new install.