I've been following a couple of the APC Monitor threads for a bit now. It appears, at least to me, that to monitor APC UPii you either need to buy the 9606 card or use the APCUPSD for *nix. I happened to be doing an SNMP walk against one of my boxes today after I installed the PowerChute Agent from APC. At the bottom of the list was all the information for the UPS. Granted, it isn't everything that you'd get from the 9606 card, but it's enough to get a decent graph.

All you need is the APC PowerChute Business Edition software, which is freely downloaded from their site. You do need to register to download it though. You'll need at least one machine with the APC server installed and all the other machines as a Agent to the server. Once all the machines are configured properly, you should be able to poll them via SNMP.

Attached is an example graph and the Custom CDEF to calculate correct run times in minutes. If you have any problems, or at least if you find this useful, let me know.

The default output of the APC Agent is for Battery Temp apparently in C, for those of us that are not used to reading C, here's a CDEF that will translate it into F.

If ya use this, make sure you change the Graph label from C to F.

Just a little update to this. I just got a APC's NetSNMP card installed today and found that this template will work directly with it.

Streaker, Is this a template that i should import, or should i put it in the scripts folder? I tried to import it and i got an XML Hash error. I am running two APC units, and I would love to be able to track this information.

thanks

app

It's an XML that you import.

Great Template
I think the CDEF loads with a '6' instead of '6000' as a divisor
Also, the input voltage has '150' if you put 0, it will be OK for 220v systems

I've uploaded a new version of the XML. This one now includes a GPRINT for Battery Replacement Indicator. With this, you can set a threshold that when the indicator goes above 1, to email you that the battery needs replaced.

I have tried this template against a UPS APC Smart 5000, but the only thing I get is the Battery Temp.

Chances are that model is using different OID's than the models that I'm using.

Do an SNMP walk of your device and see which ones it's using and then modify your copy of the template with the correct ones.

I'll try that, thanks.

Most of the OID's were ok, but they were missing the initial dot.

Old:
1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.2.2.1.0

Correct:
.1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.2.2.1.0



Anyway thanks for the tip and the graphs are coming out nicely.

Ok, that's really strange then because I don't have a leading period in any of mine and they're working fine. I wonder if this is a Cacti issue or an SNMP issue with the different APC devices.

No idea, for the record I'm running Cacti on Windows 2003 Server.

Here is the fixed version for APC 5000 Smart UPS, this is the first time I upload something so be warned.

sorry but I'm very new to cacti...i went to import templates page and tried importing this APC template you've developed and when i save it and import it says Hash version does not exist...do I have to edit this file somehow