I blogged ages ago about UPS Assistant as its a really good UPS monitoring app for Windows.
Sadly it seems the developer has gone MIA and the official website is no longer around.
However it can still be downloaded from here.
I never had to actually connect a UPS to a Windows Vista system, but it appears as of Windows Vista there is no longer UPS support built in to Windows.
Thank god for that – because the tool provided by Microsoft didn’t support many UPS’s anyway, which meant you had to use 3rd party software. In other words, the inclusion was pointless.
I found a really good utility that works in 2000, XP, 2003, Vista & 7 called UPS Assistant. Best part is UPS Assistant is free.
It auto detected my cheap no-brand UPS and only required slight tuning to the min & max voltage parameters so it matched the meter on the UPS. This particular UPS was not supported by Windows XP, but does work on Linux.
UPS Assistant can send out e-mail notifications on power failures or run a command.
