Monitoring input voltage of network UPS

[BillP]

I have two Smart-UPS 1500 XLM UPS's with AP9631 network cards in them. I have the cards configured to send me emails on alerts. I thought that PowerChute Business Edition was able to monitor these devices and provide historical info on input voltages, load levels, etc. However, it doesn't appear that PCBE can add the devices, because it's looking for an agent.

Is there any way to monitor these devices directly and collect log info to save for historical purposes? Specifically, we're having input voltage fluctuations, and we want to be able to show our facilities folks what they look like. The built-in logging on the NMC is a little too limited for what we need.

[voidstar_apc · Accepted solution]

If you have NMCs, you can monitor them via SNMP by polling the upsHighPrecInputLineVoltage OID (.1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.3.3.1.0). There are various 3rd party tools for this although for just monitoring a single device the free GetIF works pretty well: http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/getif.htm

That said, the UPS provides this information at a low sampling rate, so events that occur faster than a second or two won't show up.