I refused to go down this route; the hours lost in frustration are not worth it. I purchased a UPS that supports a network management card, basically an overpr

I refused to go down this route; the hours lost in frustration are not worth it. I purchased a UPS that supports a network management card, basically an overpriced SNMP daemon with an Ethernet interface, and have been happy ever since, since every system can query the status of the UPS.