On Nov 8, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Steve Read <sd_r...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Charles, I am hoping fiddle with that sometime today or tomorrow.
> 
> But I have another question, when you ask me to modify various files I am 
> confused as to weather you mean on the server, client or both?
> 
> So in your statement:
> 
> "Instead, you want to listen on the wildcard address, so you will want to add 
> "LISTEN 0.0.0.0" to /etc/nut/upsd.conf. After restarting NUT, netstat should 
> look like this:"
> 
> I think you mean the client?

Sorry if I didn't use consistent terminology, but starting from the standard 
TCP client/server definitions, NUT's upsd is the server process, running on the 
NUT master machine, and it listens on TCP port 3493. It is configured via 
upsd.conf.

The NUT upsmon process runs on the master as well as the slave, and it is a TCP 
client to upsd. Your previous upsmon.conf files should work (assuming the 
passwords match that of upsd.users on the master).

Put another way, with one UPS, one master, and one or more slaves, there is 
only one driver and one upsd on the master host. The slaves, therefore, do not 
need upsd.conf or the driver configuration file ups.conf, since they connect to 
the upsd process running on the master, and upsd distributes that information 
over the network.

I think part of the confusion is that the master/slave and server/client terms 
are not exactly synonymous, due to the usual need for the NUT master machine to 
shut down itself as well as the slave.

-- 
Charles Lepple
clepple@gmail



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