These programs are part of a developing project to monitor the assortment of
UPSes that are found out there in the field. Many models have serial ports of
some kind that allow some form of state checking. This capability has been
harnessed where possible to allow for safe shutdowns, live status tracking on
web pages, and more.

This package includes the client utilities that are required to monitor a UPS
that the client host is powered from - either connected directly via a serial
port (in which case the nut-server package needs to be installed on this
machine) or across the network (where another host on the network monitors the
UPS via serial cable and runs the main nut package to allow clients to see the
information).