On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:23:54PM +0100, Arjen de Korte wrote: > Well, that is the whole point now, at the moment there isn't. > Switching off systems at various battery.charge/runtime levels is only > useful, if you can also switch them on again. This is where the > programmable outlets come into play. We first need to deal with that.
Most server-grade boxes have IPMI support and that's _very_ convenient not just for turning the machine on/off. Also, we have good experiences with simple Wake-on-LAN for cheap boxes: it's not 100% reliable, but it is good enough to be useful (and if a machine does not have IPMI support then it cannot be that important ;-) IMHO nut is currently quite good at the low-level HW support but there is a real need to provide support for centralized, high-level power on/off plans. And "centralized" is a very important keyword here; having to modify upssched scripts on dozens of machines when the plan changes is a real PITA. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser