🔌 Installing and configuring NUT (Network UPS Tools) for your home lab

Do you have an UPS ? And a home lab? Awesome. This post is about configuring all your servers, raspberry pi's and even your gaming PC to shutdown gracefully in the event of a power outage.

The thing is that you can plug in the power cord for multiple devices in your UPS but, usually, an UPS comes with 1 data cable and, wait for it, a Windows application. With the USB data cable the UPS communicates with only one computer.

To connect all your computers to the UPS you are going to install Nut (Network UPS Tools)

Jun 28 · 6 months ago