Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT auto-discovery [Was: Re: Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS]

2007-11-27 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
On Nov 27, 2007 12:56 PM, Carlos Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. most medium/large datacenters have a small number of large UPSes with generator backups, so NUT is rather pointless; 2. the datacenter has a big UPS and no generator backup, and people find their 60 minute runtime enough

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT auto-discovery [Was: Re: Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS]

2007-11-27 Thread Charles Lepple
On Nov 27, 2007 6:01 AM, Carlos Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about the change in the subject, I was goink to ask how hard would it be to implement some kind of auto-discovery/centralized configuration for slave upsmon's but after thinking a bit I though it would be too much work

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT auto-discovery [Was: Re: Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS]

2007-11-27 Thread Arjen de Korte
A big issue with auto-discovery is trust. You wouldn't want someone to be able to randomly shut down machines on your network just by starting a rogue copy of NUT. Another problem is when you discover multiple UPS'es, which one you're connected to? In a desktop system with only one UPS

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT auto-discovery [Was: Re: Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS]

2007-11-27 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
On Nov 27, 2007 3:59 PM, Arjen de Korte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you have only one UPS in your network, this might work. Otherwise, one UPS going offline might cause all clients to shutdown. This is probably not very desireable. What I had in mind was more of a centrally managed

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT auto-discovery [Was: Re: Nut problems with Centos and Belkin UPS]

2007-11-27 Thread Arjen de Korte
Carlos Rodrigues wrote: When you have only one UPS in your network, this might work. Otherwise, one UPS going offline might cause all clients to shutdown. This is probably not very desireable. What I had in mind was more of a centrally managed configuration, than no configuration. For