NAME

nutscan - Network UPS Tools (NUT) device discovery library

DESCRIPTION

The Network UPS Tools (NUT) nutscan library provides the same discovery related features that are also offered by nut-scanner(8).

It enables the discovery of supported NUT devices (USB, SNMP, Eaton XML/HTTP and IPMI) and NUT servers (either using Avahi, or the classic connection method).

DISCOVERY FUNCTIONS

First, include the required header file:

#include <nut-scan.h>

Then, to discover new devices, use the appropriate function:

All of these functions return a list of devices found, using the nutscan_device_t structure. This structure is described in nutscan_add_device_to_device(3).

Helper functions are also provided to output data using standard formats:

ERROR HANDLING

There is currently no specific mechanism for error handling.

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