34. My UPS is directly connected to an appliance with a limited version of NUT, how can I monitor the UPS from arbitrary clients?

You can set up a separate general-purpose system as the NUT server for your "arbitrary clients", using dummy-ups in "relay mode" as the driver. This instance of dummy-ups would in turn be the NUT client allowed to interact with the appliance and that way with the UPS connected there.

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The original question related to a NAS with NUT provided in its firmware OS, that only allowed one or few clients and not a whole rack’s worth of client IP addresses.