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on battery. In contrast, more critical servers may not be shut down until a low battery warning is
received). Refer to the online NUT documentation for details on how to do this:
http://eu1.networkupstools.org/doc/2.2.0/INSTALL.html
http://linux.die.net/man/5/upsmon.conf
http://linux.die.net/man/8/upsmon
An example upsmon.conf entry might look like:
MONITOR managedups@192.168.0.1 1 username password slave
- managedups is the UPS Name of the Managed UPS
- 192.168.0.1 is the IP address of the Black Box console server
- 1 indicates the server has a single power supply attached to this UPS
- username is the Username of the Managed UPS
- password is the Password of the Manager UPS
There are NUT monitoring clients available for Windows computers (WinNUT).
If you have an RPC (PDU), you can shut down UPS powered computers and other equipment if if the
they don’t have a client running (for example, communications, and surveillance gear). Set up a UPS
alert and using this to trigger a script that controls a PDU to shut off the power (refer to Chapter 15).
8.2.4 UPS alerts
You can set UPS alerts using Alerts & Logging: Alerts (refer Chapter — Alerts & Logging).
8.2.5 UPS status
You can monitor the current status of your network, serially or USB connected Managed UPSes, and any
configured Remote UPSes.
 Select the Status: UPS Status menu and a table with the summary status of all connected UPS
hardware displays.
 Click on any particular UPS System name in the table and more detailed graphical information
on the selected UPS System appears.
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