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).

8.2.4UPS 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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Black Box LES1316A, LES1332A, LES1408A Monitor managedups@192.168.0.1 1 username password slave, UPS alerts, UPS status