Friday, July 9, 2021

UPS remote monitoring

Hello I never had to deal with uninterruptible power supplies so I have questions :

  1. Are there LAN/"network"/USB UPS able to periodically message status of their internal battery to some server ? Or does the smart have to be within the ATX/flex PSU of the device plugged to the UPS ?
  2. Are there dedicated softwares ("frontends"/"webUI") showing the status of some/any UPS ? Or frontends of hypervisors directly? Or is a power shortage recognized by any OS ? (that is - linux/windows kernel says to the window manager to display the charging icon in the taskbar of a desktop machine, and one has to cronjob that to emit some alerts or idk) How about voltage peaks in the latter case?
  3. UPS often serve multiple devices (access point + server at least) but are there ATX/flex classical desktop machines PSU that embed a li-ion battery in it ? For example for headless machines far away from an internet access point
  4. What is used if one wants to cover every single wall sockets of an infrastructure ? Some massive UPS or something with gasoline ?


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