[Nut-upsdev] Changes to upscli_connect (and general discovery)

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Arjen de Korte wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing the point here, but as far as I can see there is no way for 
> clients to auto-detect which UPS to monitor. I do see merit in auto-detecting 
> UPS (or other devices) for setting up the upsd server, but as far as I'm 
> concerned, we're wasting our time on the nut-scanner.

I don't think nut scanner is for clients (your points are valid there).
I assumed it was for management tools like nagios so they can monitor
UPSs automatically (although as you point out, having server X actually
plugged into UPS Y is still up to a human).

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