How can I monitor multiple network enabled UPSes from one Windows PC?

[BillP]

I have a collection of UPSes  either backing up servers/workstations and a few providing backup powder for some aquariums. I gather each UPS I monitor needs some kind of Service/Agent running on a PC to poll the UPS? But APCUPSD  won't allow multiple instances in Windows. It does allow multiple APCTrays, but they expect to monitor the APCUPSD  Service and not the UPS from what I can  see.  I guess I could run multiple instances of the APCUPSD  Service in Linux (Yuck) and  then   use  the APCTray  in Windows to monitor these Linux instances on different ports I assume.

Any help or bright ideas  appreciated.

[voidstar_apc]

APC's solution for SmartUPSes is to put a network management card in the UPS and then use the free PowerChute Network Shutdown client on each Windows instance. That's roughly comparable to your solution: the network management card and your linux box running APCUPSd play similar roles.

[BillP · Accepted solution]

Bill,

Do all of the UPS have network cards? If so then you can monitor all of the UPS using StruXureware. To my knowledge APCUPSD does not offer a single point GUI for multiple instances but I suggest you post this question to the APCUPSD forum. Someone there may know of a method. 

Another option if the UPS have network cards is to monitor them using SNMP. You could write a script that would poll the network cards for info and write that info to a text file or GUI. 

[papibi]

Hi! Networkers,

on my windoiws 10 station, I install apctray (only that application, not the rest of apcupsd package)

to monitor 2 remote servers (192.168.1.100:3551 and 192.168.1.101:3551)

and configure it to start automatically at startup.

when it start, it show me only one instance monitoring 127.0.0.1:3551

I have to manually click on the icon and add a second instance and configure them with my IP values and it work correctly.

How can I configure my system so it start automatically the two instances ?

Thanks for your help

PS: I already wrote on apcupsd forum but didn't receive any reply.