criten.org » Uninterruptible Power Supply http://www.criten.org Just another blog nobody reads Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Monitoring a UPS in Windows 7 http://www.criten.org/2009/10/monitoring-a-ups-in-windows-7/ http://www.criten.org/2009/10/monitoring-a-ups-in-windows-7/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:10:28 +0000 admin http://www.criten.org/2009/10/monitoring-a-ups-in-windows-7/ 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.

UPS-Assistant

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