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Network UPS Tools is a suite of programs that can be used to monitor
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the status of an Uninterruptible Power Supply. Nut tries to support
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"every kind of UPS with sufficient interest behind it." Most decent
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UPSs have a serial port for access to status information. The primary
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use of Nut is to notify the machine in the event of a power failure so
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that scripts may be run to properly shutdown your machine. Nut also
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has a network communications layer that allows other machines to
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coordinate shutdowns with the machine that is physically attached to
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the UPS.
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