[Nut-upsdev] naming a new Mac OS X UPS driver

[Charles Lepple]

I've been working on a meta-driver that tries to address one of the  
difficulties of using NUT on a Mac OS X system which has built-in  
drivers for several USB-connected UPSes.

On a stock OS X system, after you plug in a system-supported UPS, a  
new "UPS" tab shows up in the "Energy Saver" system preferences panel.  
Basic status information is presented there, and additional  
information is updated in the dynamic system configuration store. I  
would like to pass this information along to NUT's upsd so for  
monitoring purposes, as well as to enable the controlled shutdown of  
nearby systems (e.g. clients of a file server).

An interesting side effect is that the internal battery on a laptop is  
monitored in the same way as an UPS. So I am not sure if "nut-macosx- 
ups" is the best name for the driver. I think that a meta-driver like  
this probably should have "bridge" in the name, since it is  
essentially bridging the NUT variable namespace with the system  
configuration namespace. On the other hand, the new IPMI driver is  
just called "nut-ipmipsu".

Ideas?

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Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail