Network UPS Tools

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Network UPS Tools (NUT) is a suite of software component designed to monitor power devices, such as <a href="/facts/Uninterruptible_power_supply/aYD6Yo6L">uninterruptible power supplies</a>, <a href="/facts/Power_distribution_unit/ybdpAa23">power distribution units</a>, <a href="/facts/Solar_controller/0IMjVpt0">solar controllers</a> and servers <a href="/facts/Power_supply_unit_(computer)/3nvssXFG">power supply units</a>. Many brands and models are supported and exposed via a network protocol and standardized interface.
It follows a three-tier model with dozens of NUT device driver daemons that communicate with power-related hardware devices over selected media using vendor-specific protocols, the NUT server upsd which represents the drivers on the network (defaulting to IANA registered port 3493/tcp) using the standardized NUT protocol, and NUT clients (running on same localhost as the server, or on remote systems) which can manage the power devices and query their power states and other metrics for any applications, usually ranging from historic graphing and graceful shutdowns to orchestrated power failover and virtual machine migration.
Based on NUT design and protocol, the project community authored "UPS management protocol", Informational RFC 9271, which was published by IETF in August 2022, and the IANA port number registry was updated to reflect it (even though this RFC is not formally an Internet Standard).
Clients maintained in the NUT codebase include upsc, upsrw and upscmd for command-line actions, upsmon for relatively simple monitoring and graceful shutdowns (considering the amount of minimally required vs. total available power source units in the current server), upssched for complex monitoring scenarios, upscgi for a simple web interface, a NUT-Monitor X11 desktop client, as well as C, C++ and Python libraries for third-party clients. Community projects include more clients and bindings for other languages.
Being a cross-platform project, NUT works on most Unix, BSD and Linux platforms with various system architectures, from embedded systems to venerable Solaris, HP-UX and AIX servers. There were also native Windows builds based on previous stable NUT release line, last being 2.6.5. This effort was revived after the NUT 2.8.0 release, becoming part of the main codebase in September 2022 (at this time there are areas of the codebase documented in the project as placeholders and not yet ported to the Windows platform, and packages are not yet produced by the project). As of NUT releases 2.8.1 to 2.8.3, NUT for Windows builds are available as archives from the <a href="/facts/Continuous_integration/M4RYgSzt">CI</a> platform, but neatly integrated packages are not yet available.

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