Or you could stop wasting time and money on windows and just use Linux. No dummy plugs required.
You might want to mention MiningMonitor.com as an option, since it takes care of a lot of the hassle of watching your rigs manually (or via SSH/RDP/etc), and it is getting an API to receive worker health stats (from a script I wrote) for GPU temp, core clock speed, mem speed, fan speed, mhash value per GPU. In addition, Flexible Proxy also has a branch that I created that allows you to track those same health stats via their web interface. More on that stuff here: