mgeshut - Driver for MGE UPS serial SHUT Protocol UPS equipment

This man page only documents the hardwarespecific features of the mgeshut driver. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8).

mgeshut support all recent MGE UPS models which use the SHUT (Serial HID UPS Transfer) protocol at 2400 bps. Supported models are:

Pulsar Ellipse S, Pulsar Ellipse USBS Pulsar Ellipse Premium S, Pulsar Ellipse Premium USBS Pulsar EXtreme C, Pulsar Esprit, Pulsar Evolution, NOVA AVR (Serial), Galaxy 3000 / PW (with RS232 HID COM ports card, ref 66066).

Older models, such as Pulsar ESV+, Pulsar EX and Pulsar ES+, use the UTalk protocol and should use the mgeutalk driver.

This driver supports the following optional settings in the ups.conf(5):

lowbatt=num

Set the low battery warning threshold at which shutdown is initiated by upsmon(8). The factory default value is 30 (in percentage), and only be settable depending on the exact model.

offdelay=num

Set the timer before the UPS is turned off after the kill power command is sent (via the -k switch). The default value is 20 (in seconds), and MUST BE LOWER than ondelay.

ondelay=num

Set the timer for the UPS to switch on in case the power returns after the kill power command had been sent but before the actual switch off. This ensures the machines connected to the UPS are, in all cases, rebooted after a power failure. The default value is 3 (in 10 seconds units, which means 30 seconds), and MUST BE GREATER than offdelay.

notification=num

Set notification type to 1 (no), 2 (light) or 3 (yes). The default value is 3 (yes) because of some early Ellipse models which need it.

Pulsar Ellipse S: Repetitive stale status Loss of communication

Arnaud Quette <arnaud.quette@free.fr> or <arnaud.quette@mgeups.com>

Philippe Marzouk <philm@users.sourceforge.net>

The core driver:

Internet resources: