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Pardon the naive question, but I'm obviously missing something. I'm running the tools in standalone mode on Ubuntu 14.04. All is working well. upsc nicely shows me all the status info from command line. What I'm missing is how to get the GUI display.

...f the monitoring systems listed here would be quicker to configure for your dashboard idea: http://networkupstools.org/projects.html#_network_management_systems_nms_integration (I personally use collectd, since it gathers stats on other subsystems that I care about in addition to NUT. I either use kcollectd to view the RRD files locally in X, or I have set up collection3.cgi for remote viewing.) You could probably configure the monitoring system to alert you to various UPS conditions as well. One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that you can prototype all of this by using the dummy-ups dr...

I've been looking over the documentation and several installation guides for NUT, and I'm starting to get a little bit of a feel for what it is. But I'm still not clear whether what I'd *like* to accomplish is actually practical using NUT. Perhaps someone here can tell me if they've done something similar, or if I'm way off base. I would like to set up a Linux host as a