[Nut-upsuser] How do I disable messages from upsmon?

[Rob Groner]

I've followed the config setup docs and also the excellent guide from Roger Price.

I'm using openSUSE 13.1 and built NUT 2.7.2 from the sources (latest stable).

I'm hooked up to a dummy UPS that basically just cycles from fully charged down to about 20% discharged. I was pleased when I started seeing the messages on my screen indicating the UPS was online or on-battery. Given how often the unit cycles, however (about every 30 seconds), it was quickly annoying to get the system messages, so I went into the upsmon.conf file and commented out the "online" and "onbatt" NOTIFYFLAG messages. I then did a reload of upsmon...but found I was still getting the messages.

Long story short, my upsmon.conf file now consists of a single entry:

MONITOR rtdups at localhost 1 upsmaster sekret master

I'm still getting the onbattery, online, comm good, comm bad, etc system messages. Clearly there is some default behavior going on. How do I keep these system messages from happening?

Thanks

Rob

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[Charles Lepple]

I?m still getting the onbattery, online, comm good, comm bad, etc system messages. Clearly there is some default behavior going on. How do I keep these system messages from happening?

From http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsmon.conf.html:

"NOTIFYFLAG type flag[+flag][+flag]?
By default, upsmon sends walls global messages to all logged in users) via /bin/wall and writes to the syslog when things happen. You can change this."

To suppress just the on-battery/online messages:

NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE IGNORE
NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT IGNORE

The full list is just above NOTIFYFLAG in the upsmon.conf documentation.

[Rob Groner]

Excellent, thank you!

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:20 PM
To: Rob Groner
Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] How do I disable messages from upsmon?

Post by Rob Groner
I'm still getting the onbattery, online, comm good, comm bad, etc system

messages. Clearly there is some default behavior going on. How do I keep
these system messages from happening?
"NOTIFYFLAG type flag[+flag][+flag]...
By default, upsmon sends walls global messages to all logged in users) via
/bin/wall and writes to the syslog when things happen. You can change this."
NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE IGNORE
NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT IGNORE
The full list is just above NOTIFYFLAG in the upsmon.conf documentation.
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Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail