Network UPS Tools User Manual
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B.3 Other contributors<br />
• Pavel Korensky’s original apcd provided the inspiration for pursuing APC’s smart protocol in 1996<br />
• Eric Lawson provided scans of the OneAC protocol<br />
• John Marley used OCR software to transform the SEC protocol scans into a HTML document<br />
• Chris McKinnon scanned and converted the Fortress protocol documentation<br />
• Tank provided documentation on the Belkin/Delta protocol<br />
• Potrans provided a Fenton PowerPal 600 (P series) for development of the safenet driver.<br />
B.4 Older entries (before 2005)<br />
• MGE <strong>UPS</strong> SYSTEMS was the previous NUT sponsor, from 2002 until its partial acquisition by Eaton. They provided protocols<br />
information, many units for development of NUT-related projects. Several drivers such as mge-utalk, mge-shut, snmp-ups,<br />
hidups, and usbhid-ups are the result of this collaboration, in addition to the WMNut, MGE HID Parser the libhid projects,<br />
. . . through Arnaud Quette (who was also an MGE employee). All the MGE supporters have gone with Eaton (through MGE<br />
Office Protection Systems), which was temporarily the new NUT sponsor.<br />
• Fenton Technologies contributed a PowerPal 660 to the project. Their open stance and quick responses to technical inquiries<br />
were appreciated for making the development of the fentonups driver possible. Fenton has since been acquired by Metapo.<br />
• Bo Kersey of VirCIO provided a Best Power Fortress 750 to facilitate the bestups driver.<br />
• Invensys Energy Systems provided the SOLA/Best "Phoenixtec" protocol document. SOLA has since been acquired by Eaton.<br />
• PowerKinetics technical support provided documentation on their MiniCOL protocol, which is archived in the NUT protocol<br />
library. PowerKinetics was acquired by the JST Group in June 2003.<br />
• Cyber Power Systems contributed a 700AVR model for testing and development of the cyberpower driver.<br />
• Liebert Corporation supplied serial test boxes and a <strong>UPS</strong>tation GXT2 with the Web/SNMP card for development of the liebert<br />
driver and expansion of the existing snmp-ups driver. Liebert has since been acquired by Emerson.<br />
Note<br />
If a company or individual isn’t listed here, then we probably don’t have enough information about the situation. Developers are<br />
requested to report vendor contributions to the NUT team so this list may reflect their help. If we have left you out, send us<br />
some mail.<br />
C<br />
NUT command and variable naming scheme<br />
This is a dump of the standard variables and command names used in NUT. Don’t use a name with any of the dstate functions<br />
unless it exists here.<br />
If you need a new variable or command name, contact the Development Team first.<br />
Put another way: if you make up a name that’s not in this list and it gets into the tree, and then we come up with a better name<br />
later, clients that use the undocumented variable will break when it is changed.<br />
Note<br />
"opaque" means programs should not attempt to parse the value for that variable as it may vary greatly from one <strong>UPS</strong> to the<br />
next. These strings are best handled directly by the user.
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