I can follow yamt here. I am thinking of servers with multiple power supplies and UPS. With the general abstraction of several power sources with varying capacity we can handle power supply redundancy, ups and batteries with a single concept. Its all then just reduced to a set of power source sensors. Frank Jachym Holecek wrote:
# YAMAMOTO Takashi 2007-10-11:can't these be done more generally?Why? It's not supposed to perform general task, it's supposed to detect when all batteries are off and there's no AC -- I don't see the benefit of abstracting a perfectly concrete situation... -- Jachym