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That works for me. I think the best solution is to attach the monitoring USB cable of each to a different device and monitor them (maybe through NUT - I don't remember if NUT only monitors one device at a time or not, but that's a good option). Also, three of the UPS devices are EATON S5 550 (or clo...

mcapra wrote:Is it alright if I lock this thread?

Yes; that's probably the best/final answer on this topic!
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It is possible, but not advisable. Supporting a Core installation becomes more difficult when you add a bunch of extra pieces of software to the monitoring server. Generally one might monitor a UPS using SNMP, but as you stated the only interface these UPSs have is USB. I can't think of a way to mo...

I'm not sure if this is possible, but can you use a USB hub to connect multiple UPS devices' via USB and monitor them individually? First part: how do you monitor a UPS device which is directly connected to a USB port on the monitoring server? Second part: how can you monitor multiple devices connec...

Does anyone know of a plugin (or how to write one) to monitor Cisco SPA504g VoIP phones on a SOHO network? They don't have SNMP functionality, so that limits that. There's a field for a "debug server" and for a Syslog server. Has anyone had any luck monitoring these with Nagios - either on...