Generic UPS monitoring and management plugin
Verax NMS Generic UPS (uninterruptible power supply) management plugin allows easy monitoring, alerting, health check, management and
performance reporting of SNMP-enabled UPSes supporting the SNMPv2 and UPS MIBs. The plugin can communicate using SNMP v1, v2 or v3.
Generic vs. dedicated plugins
The Generic UPS plugin enables monitoring and management of UPS types/models that do not have dedicated Verax NMS plugins
(such as, for instance Emerson UPS or APC UPS).
Dedicated plugins come first in the discovery order: if a dedicated plugin exists it is preferred over a generic one.
While the dedicated plugins typically provide additional functionality (display more information, allow for execution of management actions,
configuration management, etc.),
the Generic UPS plugin provides full capability in terms of monitoring, performance measurements and alerting.
General information view
The view provides a configuration summary for an UPS:
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Name and description
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Location and uptime
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Manufacturer, model and software version
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Battery status, time on battery, estimated minutes remaining
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Estimated charge remaining (%)
Electrical metrics view
The view provides a configuration summary for an UPS:
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Battery: voltage, current and temperature
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Input lines: frequency, voltage, current and true power
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Output lines: Output lines: voltage, current, true power and % load
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Bypass: Bypass: voltage, current and true power
Alarms view
Displays alarms in the UPS memory including their timestamp and description.
Standard MIBs
The Generic UPS supports the standard MIB-2, enabling NMS to define sensors, performance counters, alarms and traps based on
standard MIB definitions.
Built-in vendor templates
The Generic UPS plugin contains predefined templates for sensors and performance counters defined in
proprietary MIBs of the most popular UPS vendors. The select, most important templates
are listed in the table below:
| APC UPS Charge |
| APC UPS Input Line Voltage |
| APC UPS Load |
| APC UPS Output Current |
| APC UPS Output Voltage |
| Liebert UPS Charge |
| Liebert UPS Load |
| Merlin Gerin Battery Installed |
| Merlin Gerin Battery sys Shutdown |
| Merlin Gerin UPS Charge |
| Merlin Gerin UPS Load |
| Eaton UPS Battery Current |
| Eaton UPS Charge |
| Eaton UPS Input Line Voltage |
| Eaton UPS Input Source |
| Eaton UPS Load |
| Eaton UPS Output Current |
| Eaton UPS Output Voltage |
| Eaton UPS Time Remaining |
| Socomec Sicon Battery Capacity |
| Socomec Sicon Battery Capacity |
| Socomec Sicon Battery Negative Voltage |
| Socomec Sicon Battery Positive Voltage |
| Socomec Sicon Battery Voltage |
| Socomec Sicon Output Load Phase 1 |
| Socomec Sicon Output Load Phase 2 |
| Socomec Sicon Output Load Phase 3 |
| Socomec Sicon Output Load Rate Phase 1 |
| Socomec Sicon Output Load Rate Phase 2 |
| Socomec Sicon Output Load Rate Phase 3 |
| Socomec Sicon UPS Output Load Rate |
| Delta Electronics Battery Capacity |
| Delta Electronics Battery Voltage |
| Delta Electronics Output Load Rate Phase 1 |
| Tripp Lite UPS Charge |
| Tripp Lite UPS Load |
Loading vendor MIBs
Additional MIBs can be loaded via NMS MIB Browser. OIDs from these MIBs can be used to define additional
sensors and performance counters as needed.
Event processing
Verax NMS provides a set of standard, built-in event processing rules for MIB-2. Additional rules can be defined
based on standard and vendor-specific MIB OIDs.
Visualization
The user interface of the Generic UPS plugin displays:
- Basic UPS information such as name, location, vendor, type & model, firmware version and others
- Electrical characteristics for input, output and bypass circuits (voltage, current, power, temperature, etc.)
Predefined Generic UPS monitoring templates
The plugin contains predefined templates for most commonly monitored UPS items.
Most important, selected templates are provided in the table below (other, additional sensors and performance counters
can be added by the user):
| Generic UPS Charge |
| Generic UPS Time Remaining |
| Generic UPS Battery Current |
| Generic UPS Battery Voltage |
| Generic UPS Input Line Voltage L1 |
| Generic UPS Input Line Voltage L2 |
| Generic UPS Input Line Voltage L3 |
| Generic UPS Input Line Current L1 |
| Generic UPS Input Line Current L2 |
| Generic UPS Input Line Current L3 |
| Generic UPS Input Line Frequency L1 |
| Generic UPS Input Line Frequency L2 |
| Generic UPS Input Line Frequency L3 |
| Generic UPS Input Line True Power L1 |
| Generic UPS Input Line True Power L2 |
| Generic UPS Input Line True Power L3 |
| Generic UPS Output Line Current L1 |
| Generic UPS Output Line Current L2 |
| Generic UPS Output Line Current L3 |
| Generic UPS Output Line Load L1 |
| Generic UPS Output Line Load L2 |
| Generic UPS Output Line Load L3 |
| Generic UPS Output Line Voltage L1 |
| Generic UPS Output Line Voltage L2 |
| Generic UPS Output Line Voltage L3 |
| Generic UPS Output Line True Power L1 |
| Generic UPS Output Line True Power L2 |
| Generic UPS Output Line True Power L3 |
| Generic UPS Bypass Voltage L1 |
| Generic UPS Bypass Voltage L2 |
| Generic UPS Bypass Voltage L3 |
| Generic UPS Bypass Current L1 |
| Generic UPS Bypass Current L2 |
| Generic UPS Bypass Current L3 |
| Generic UPS Bypass Power L1 |
| Generic UPS Bypass Power L2 |
| Generic UPS Bypass Power L3 |
Performance counters and alarming
All the above parameters can be added as sensors/performance counters within Verax NMS and configured for alarming.
See also
Emerson UPS & AC monitoring and management plugin 
APC UPS monitoring and management plugin
Generic Router monitoring and management plugin
Generic Switch monitoring and management plugin
Generic Firewall monitoring and management plugin
Generic Printer monitoring and management plugin
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