[Nut-upsdev] on Ubuntu Developer Summit (Oneiric), NUT and 2.8.0

[Arnaud Quette]

Fellows,

I've been caught by real life, and didn't find time to share / discuss this
with you.

I've been attending UDS Oneiric, from May 9 to 13 in Budapest, and had a
chance to present and complete some ideas around NUT:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerOneiricInfraPower

The end target is to have NUT ready to address infrastructures, both static
like data-centers and flexible like Clouds.

Part of the interesting NUT topics are:
- the nut-scanner, which is a WIP,
- the configuration library and tools, with some existing results (Augeas
lenses)
- the nut-ipmi driver, at first to monitor PSU (also WIP, first commit this
week),
- the PowerChain notion, which brings a global vision on both the protection
and the supervision of the electric network.

Part of this blueprint, and of a long run reflexion, I'm also considering
opening NUT to application data related to power (like PowerWake /
PowerNap):
the considered approach would be a driver that publish power related
information from this app, and allow interaction (calling commands and doing
settings, as for actual devices). This is still subject to discussion and
investigation, but it would really make sense to have NUT being a "general
power information provider".

All these are scheduled for 2.8.0, around September. There will also be:
- the work already done, like NSS support (as an alternative to OpenSSL) and
the maturing Windows port.
- a Java binding (jNUT), needed for Eucalyptus integration,
- some work around Avahi and mDNS / DNS-SD.

As usual, comments, feedback and help welcome ^_^

cheers,
Arnaud
-- 
Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://powerquality.eaton.com
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org
Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
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