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ZEDAT UPS Daemon (ZUPS)

Overview

The ZEDAT UPS Daemon (ZUPS) allows for monitoring the state of one or more UPS devices using SNMP and executing user-specified commands in case of power outage, such as e-mail or pager notifications and controlled remote host shutdowns. If the monitored UPS devices are running on battery, the shutdown commands are executed for an arbitrary number of remote hosts, optionally with some delay specified for each host. Additionally, ZUPS can be configured to ignore these delays and run the specified commands immediately if the UPS devices are running out of battery power. Custom plugins can easily be added in order to perform arbitrary other checks.

Compatibility

ZUPS can be used with any RFC 1628 (UPS MIB) compliant UPS device. It's written in C and should compile and run on Linux® or any other recent UNIX®(‑like) operating system. The Net-SNMP library (version 5.0.5 or newer) is required for running ZUPS.

Author

This software was developed by Holger Weiß at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Zentraleinrichtung für Datenverarbeitung (ZEDAT).

Copyright and License

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