NAME

hosts.conf - Access control for Network UPS Tools CGI programs

NOTE ABOUT HISTORIC NUT RELEASE

Note
Two NUT websites

This version of the page reflects NUT release v2.8.1 with codebase commited 4ba352d8f at 2023-10-31T21:46:20+01:00

Options, features and capabilities in current development (and future releases) are detailed on the main site and may differ from ones described here.

DESCRIPTION

The CGI programs (upsset.cgi(8), upsstats.cgi(8), upsimage.cgi(8)) use this file to determine if they are allowed to talk to a host. This keeps random visitors from using your web server to annoy others by creating outgoing connections.

DIRECTIVES

MONITOR ups description

The ups element is in the form upsname[@hostname[:port]]. To allow connections to a UPS called "snoopy" on a system called "doghouse" that runs upsd on port 7877, it would look like this: 

MONITOR snoopy@doghouse:7877 "Joe Cool"

The description must be one element, so if it has spaces, then it must be wrapped with quotes as shown above. The default hostname is "localhost".

SEE ALSO

upsset.cgi(8), upsstats.cgi(8), upsimage.cgi(8)

Internet resources:

The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: https://www.networkupstools.org/