[Nut-upsdev] enumerating UPSes with upsc (was Re: [Nut-upsuser] SNMP/management front-ends)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 08:59, Charles Lepple wrote:
> you're suggesting that @hostname return all variables from all UPSes,
> right?

No, I'm suggesting it returns all the UPSs on a particular hostname.

> One thing that occurred to me after suggesting that syntax is that the
> results would all run together.

Yes this would be suboptimal behaviour :)

> If 'upsc -l host' lists the available UPSes, it is trivial (even in
> shell scripting) to iterate over the results, and run "upsc $ups at host"
> on each UPS. IMHO, it keeps the parsing simple.

I am suggesting @hostname be an alias for -l hostname.

However since I'm not writing it my opinion counts for little 8-)

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