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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