Re: [gpm] Re: ideas for a new UPS infrastructure

[Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec suse cz>]

Richard Hughes writes: 
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 20:52 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > How about this instead
> > 
> >  1. gnome-power-manager to include functionality for discovering
> >     networked UPS devices. I don't really know how this works but
> >     I expect some auth is necessary. Hence, you really want to
> >     run this in the desktop session as asking users to edit
> >     configuration files is just wrong. If the UPS is discoverable
> >     using Zeroconf/Bonjour etc. maybe g-p-m should use Avahi
> >     to discover them and prompt the user for auth when it finds
> >     an UPS.

Discovering is not yet implemented. But NUT developer think about it.
Avahi is a good way to do it.
The rest is implemented. Users can either monitor UPS or control it. See
the nut configuration files.

But as I wrote in previous mail, it would be nice to discriminate
between "UPSes directly affecting my machine" and "random remote UPSes"

> > > > Power manager must implement advanced UPS logic from upsmon (how many
> > > > UPSes must be running, signalling networked computers to shutdown,...)

This logic should be part of powermanager. Most servers don't run GNOME,
and desktop policy is very probably simple: one local UPS or one remote
UPS directly affecting me.

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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