[Nut-upsuser] Just to monitor an UPS

[Arnaud Quette]

salut Olivier,

2006/4/3, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> On 4/3/06, Olivier MOULIN <olivier.moulin at voila.fr> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I would like to know how to monitor an ups connected to linux server (usb).
> > I explain : I have a nut-srv connected with 2 serial ups and 2 linux nut-client. I don't have any usb port on the nut-srv. So I would like to connect usb ups on a other machine just to have the state (load, temp, etc) of this ups. Do I need to reinstall a server or juste the driver and what I have to configure ?
>
> You only need to run the driver on the computer with the physical
> connection to the UPS.

the driver + _upsd_ (network data server) so that the data are
available through upsc and the like...

> If you just want to manually monitor the UPS, you can use 'upsc
> name-of-ups at nut-srv'. For automatic shutdown, you probably want to
> check the documentation.

note that you can use upsmon as a simple monitor (without being
protected by this UPS) by setting the powervalue to 0 in the
upsmon.conf/MONITOR line.

Arnaud
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