RHINO(8)

👑 RHINO(8) — the NUT Manual, but make it cute

okay bestie so this is the rhino page from the NUT Manual — yeah, that's the Network UPS Tools crew — and it's literally the driver for Brazilian Microsol RHINO UPS equipment 🇧🇷✨ like, that's the whole vibe.

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✨ NAME ✨

rhino — it's the driver for Brazilian Microsol RHINO UPS equipment. no cap, that's it, that's the job 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rhino -h

rhino -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]

so <hotpink>-h</hotpink> gives you the help, and the real mode is <hotpink>-a</hotpink> with a <italic>UPS_NAME</italic> plus whatever [OPTIONS] you're feeling 🫶

⚠️ note, bestie: this man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the rhino driver. for the core driver scoop, go read nutupsdrv(8). iykyk 💖

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🦋 SUPPORTED HARDWARE 🦋

this driver has been tested with — drumroll pls 🥁:

• Rhino 6000 VA
• Rhino 7500 VA
• Rhino 10000 VA
• Rhino 20000 VA

and the glow-up detail: all Rhino models are sinusoidal on-line ⭐ literally every single one, iconic behavior 💅

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🎀 EXTRA ARGUMENTS 🎀

this driver supports the following extra optional settings in ups.conf(5) — yes, <italic>optional</italic>, so no stress 🌸

• battext=n — Default = 0, meaning no extra battery. here n = Ampere*hour. so if you've got extra battery juice, that's where you tell it 🔋✨

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💜 COMMANDS 💜

the group chat of things you can tell it to do:

• load.on — turn on the load immediately. like right now, no waiting 🙈
• load.off — turn off the load immediately. also right now 💀
• bypass.start — put the UPS in bypass mode 🌀
• bypass.stop — put the UPS out of bypass mode 🦋
• shutdown.stayoff — shut down in 3 minutes and do not return. periodt. it's not coming back 👑

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Silvino B. Magalhães <sbm2yk@gmail.com> — an absolute legend, we stan 🫶👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

The core driver 🧚

• nutupsdrv(8)

Internet resources 🌐

The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page:

• https://www.networkupstools.org/historic/v2.8.5/

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that reading session 💅✨ and for the cute sign-off: this was Network UPS Tools 2.8.5, dated 06/21/2026 — the rhino page, fr fr 🦋💖🎀