[Nut-upsuser] nut server without nut-client/monitor?

[Greg Troxel]

Orion Poplawski via Nut-upsuser <nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net>
writes:

> Would it be at all useful to have just the nut "server" components installed
> and running on a machine without a nut-monitor service running?

It really depends on your goals and your overall plan.

Generally, upsd and drivers just accumulate state and provide it to
clients, so they don't tend to be truly useful by themselves.

You could run a custom client that logs and reports state against upsd.

You could run upsmon across the network.  However, the shutdown process
assumes upsmon is local.

However, there's a normal plan, and if what you are doing is even sort of
normal, it's likely best to do the normal thing, unless you can
articulate why you want something different.

So:

  0) Read some stuff on the web:
     https://xyproblem.info/
     https://dontasktoask.com/ (not quite on point)
     
  1) Tell us your situation and what you want to accomplish.

  2) Tell us why, after having read the docs, you are heading towards a
  non-standard setup.