Looking for opinions.
Hey, is there any centralized system I can put on a Linux box that will notify me of battery health of multiple UPSs.
I started a managed Services business and I’m trying to find a battery backup solution. That I can centrally manage.
I’ve never looked into Central management for UPS’s before. So I’m not sure if there’s anything out there like that.
Given your experience though I’m guessing you might know.
I’m just trying to avoid running into the situation where I have a dying battery at a client’s location. I’m trying to be proactive.
Most of my experience comes from being a developer who enjoys drinking beer with operations people cos I get to hear all the gnarly stories :D
From what I understand, UPSs tend to fall into one of two categories; small consumer desk mount boxes that are enough to keep a single modest workstation going for ~an hour, and larger enterprise grade rack mount systems.
- The consumer grade ones tend not to have network management built in, but through something like NUT you can check the status and get alerts about power/battery health etc
- The enterprise grade ones typically have network management, usually in the form of a control module that exposes a web interface and SNMP for monitoring - they are typically not very secure, and usually rely on being on a separate management network that requires VPN access or something
I am by no means an expert, but it sounds like you are planning on deploying machines at remote sites, and want to include a UPS as part of that package - I’d assume that you already have some infrastructure in place for monitoring these machines remotely, so I’d suggest leveraging that to monitor a UPS connected over USB as well
