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status of a UPS, writing it to a file.
All these clients all run on the ECS0016 (for Management Console
presentations) but they also are run remotely (on locally powered
servers and remote monitoring systems).
This layered NUT architecture enables:
Multiple manufacturer support: • NUT can monitor USB models from
79 different manufacturers with a unified interface
Multiple architecture support:
• NUT can manage serial and USB
connected models with the same common interface. SNMP equipment
can also be monitored (although at this stage this is still pre-release
with experimental drivers and this feature will be added to the
ECS0016’s embedded UPS tools in future release).
Multiple clients monitoring the one UPS:
• Multiple systems may
monitor a single UPS using only their network connections and there’s
a wide selection of client programs) which support monitoring UPS
hardware via NUT (Big Sister, Cacti, Nagios, Windows and more. Refer
www.networkupstools.org/client-projects.)
So NUT supports the more complex power architectures found in data
centers, computer rooms and NOCs where many UPSes from many
vendors power many systems with many clients and each of the larger
UPSes power multiple devices and many of these devices are themselves
dual powered.
Environmental Monitoring
The Environmental Monitor Device (EMD) connects to any ECS0016
serial port and each console server can support multiple EMDs. Each
EMD device has one temperature and one humidity sensor and two
general purpose status sensors which can be connected to a smoke
detector, water detector, vibration or open-door sensor.