[Nut-upsdev] Joining forces with the Network UPS Tools

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org>:

>> - We could manage a full power chain of UPSs and RPCs, and add some
>> smarter/advanced features (like subscribing clients (nut slaves
>> installed on computers) on a specific outlet, and have these shutdown
>> earlier than others before putting the outlet off)
>
> I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish here. Why would clients
> subscribe to a specific outlet? And why would we want to switch off an
> outlet early?
>
> We already have 'upssched' to shutdown clients early, so the only load
> saving that would benefit from shutdown through the outlet switches
> are 'dumb' devices that don't run NUT client software or NUT clients
> that somehow are no longer responsive. In both cases, they will be
> shutdown 'hard' anyway and as far as I can see there is little you can
> do about it.

Never mind, I already figured out a usage. If one of the machines  
connected to an outlet gets stuck and you want to cycle the power on  
that outlet (probably the main reason to use RPC's in the first place)  
you want to bring down the other systems on that outlet down cleanly.  
Shutting down the whole UPS/RPC system is currently the only option  
and this could be made more fine grained.

Best regards, Arjen
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