NUTSCAN_DISPLAY_SANI(3)

💖 NUTSCAN_DISPLAY_SANI(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the NUT Manual page for nutscan_display_sanity_check_serial — yes the man page name is abbreviated because apparently even man pages have to fit in a fit check ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

nutscan_display_sanity_check_serial — it displays sanity check warnings about "serial" (that's your serial number / serial code string, iykyk) optional values that live inside the nutscan_device_t structure you hand it, and it prints all of that straight to stdout. no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <nut-scan.h>

void nutscan_display_sanity_check_serial(nutscan_device_t * device);

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: nutscan_display_sanity_check_serial() goes through the "serial" optional field in every single NUT device inside device, and if it spots duplicates or values that are just… seemingly invalid (💀), it prints comments out to stdout. and the way it prints them? it formats them so you can literally copy-paste them directly into your ups.conf file. no cleanup era required, it's giving plug-and-play 🫶

it gets called from nutscan_display_ups_conf_with_sanity_check() so that the whole aggregate content for the ups.conf file gets built in one shot. one shot, one kill, main character energy 👑

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole squad, fr fr:

• nutscan_display_ups_conf_with_sanity_check(3)
• nutscan_display_sanity_check_serial(3)
• nutscan_scan_usb(3)
• nutscan_scan_xml_http_range(3)
• nutscan_scan_nut(3)
• nutscan_scan_avahi(3)
• nutscan_scan_ipmi(3)
• nutscan_scan_snmp(3)
• nutscan_display_sanity_check(3)
• nutscan_display_ups_conf_with_sanity_check(3)
• nutscan_display_ups_conf(3)
• nutscan_display_parsable(3)
• nutscan_new_device(3)
• nutscan_free_device(3)
• nutscan_add_option_to_device(3)
• nutscan_add_device_to_device(3)
• nutscan_cidr_to_ip(3)

(and yes, nutscan_display_ups_conf_with_sanity_check(3) really does show up twice in there — iconic, we don't gatekeep, we don't edit 💅)

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that's the whole page bestie, go forth and sanity-check those serials 🌈

Network UPS Tools 2.8.5 · 10/07/2026 — mwah, love u, bye 🦋💜