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...ling periods, there is no difference in how quickly the shutdown event gets delivered. Authentication does not affect the behavior: in NUT, status is pulled from upsd, not pushed. Here's the loop in upsmon that polls upsd: https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/blob/master/clients/upsmon.c#L1999 > Are there other merits of authenticating clients ? I honestly don't know. Having not written the original code, I see authentication for slave mode as something that is easier to leave in than take out, given that authentication is a little more relevant for the master connections. Also...

Hi, I'd like to better understand the merits of NUT clients (slaves) properly authenticating with the NUT server (master). NUT allows clients to retrieve UPS status (upsc ups at 10.10.10.1) without authenticating, shutdowns are properly trigger via polling. From testing one apparent benefit of authenticating is the client receives the shutdown event more quickly rather than the polling