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.TH mge-shut 8 "Thu Feb 26 2004" "" "Network UPS Tools (NUT)"
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.TH mge\-shut 8 "Thu Feb 26 2004" "" "Network UPS Tools (NUT)"
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mge-shut \- Driver for MGE UPS serial SHUT Protocol UPS equipment
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mge\(hyshut \- Driver for MGE UPS serial SHUT Protocol UPS equipment
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This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the
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mge-shut driver. For information about the core driver, see
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This man page only documents the hardware\(hyspecific features of the
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mge\(hyshut driver. For information about the core driver, see
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.SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE
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mge-shut support all recent MGE UPS models which use the SHUT (Serial HID
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mge\(hyshut support all recent MGE UPS models which use the SHUT (Serial HID
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UPS Transfer) protocol at 2400 bps. Supported models are:
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Pulsar Ellipse Premium S,
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Pulsar Ellipse Premium USBS
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Pulsar / Comet EXtreme,
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Galaxy 3000 / PW (with RS232 HID COM ports card, ref 66066).
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Older models, such as Pulsar ESV+, Pulsar EX and Pulsar ES+, use the U-Talk
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protocol and should use the mge-utalk driver.
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Older models, such as Pulsar ESV+, Pulsar EX and Pulsar ES+, use the U\(hyTalk
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protocol and should use the mge\(hyutalk driver.
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.SH EXTRA ARGUMENTS
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This driver supports the following optional settings in the
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.IP "offdelay=\fInum\fR"
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Set the timer before the UPS is turned off after the kill power command is
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sent (via the \fI-k\fR switch).
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sent (via the \fI\-k\fR switch).
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The default value is 20 (in seconds), and MUST BE LOWER than ondelay.
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.IP "ondelay=\fInum\fR"
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The default value is 3 (yes) because of some early Ellipse models which
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.SS "Pulsar Ellipse S: Repetitive stale status \(hy Loss of communication"
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Several users have reported "data stale" errors with Pulsar Ellipse
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equipment. This lasts around 10 seconds and happens once every few hours.
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This is due to the fact that the SHUT protocol is verbose, and the driver
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sometimes does not handle all of it during the usual polling interval in
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upsd. To solve this problem, change the value of MAXAGE to 25 in
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upsd.conf. Also add "notification=3" in ups.conf (thanks to Julien
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Arnaud Quette <arnaud.quette@free.fr> or <arnaud.quette@mgeups.com>