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## 39. My networked UPS can’t handle being monitored by dozens of NUT clients

Network management cards on many UPSes are rather puny appliances, often known to either limit the amount of clients who may connect, for security or performance reasons, or otherwise to crash or respond very slowly when overwhelmed.

You may be better off reducing the amount of servers connected to the UPS with the `snmp-ups`, `netxml-ups` or similar type of driver, and set up other systems as clients of these NUT servers.

Developers who are working on NUT, its drivers, or further projects and appliances based on NUT, and who need to monitor their UPS from multiple systems using the complete NUT stack on each system (e.g. during testing), can benefit from dedicating a separate general-purpose system as the NUT server using the real (networked) driver for the UPS, while using the `dummy-ups` in "relay mode" as the driver connected to this dedicated server on each tested system.

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