User's Manual UPS control system
Table Of Contents
- Apcupsd User's Manual
- Release Notes
- How To Use This Manual
- Basic User's Guide
- Planning Your Installation
- Building and Installing apcupsd
- After Installation
- Configuration Examples
- Testing Apcupsd
- Troubleshooting Your Installation
- Monitoring and Tuning your UPS
- Maintaining Your UPS
- Frequently-Asked Questions
- Apcupsd Bugs
- Advanced topics
- Customizing Event Handling
- Master/Slave Configurations
- Controlling Multiple UPSes on one Machine
- Support for SNMP UPSes
- Alternate Ways To Run The Network Information Server
- apcupsd System Logging
- Installation: Windows
- Windows Version of apcupsd
- Installation: Serial-Line UPSes
- Overview of Serial-Interface UPSes
- Connecting a Serial-Line UPS to a USB Port
- Connecting a APC USB UPS to either a PC USB or Serial Port
- Cables
- Smart-Custom Cable for SmartUPSes
- Smart Signalling Cable for BackUPS CS Models
- Voltage-Signalling Cable for "dumb" UPSes
- Other APC Cables that apcupsd Supports
- Voltage Signalling Features Supported by Apcupsd for Various Cables
- Voltage Signalling
- Back-UPS Office 500 signals
- Analyses of APC Cables
- Win32 Implementation Restrictions for Simple UPSes
- Internal Apcupsd Actions for Simple Cables
- RS232 Wiring and Signal Conventions
- Pin Assignment for the Serial Port (RS-232C), 25-pin and 9-pin, Female End
- Ioctl to RS232 Correspondence
- Testing Serial-Line UPSes
- Troubleshooting Serial Line communications
- Recalibrating the UPS Runtime
- DATA Logging
- Technical Reference
- Configuration Directive Reference
- apcupsd Status Logging
- Shutown Sequence and its Discontents
- APC smart protocol
- Apcupsd --- RPM Packaging FAQ
- Credits
- Kernel Config
Apcupsd User’s Manual
Release Notes
This release contains a good number of cleanups and bug fixes to prior 3.10.x
versions, and is intended to be the official release. See the ChangeLog below
for more details.
New Features
- Implement USB on all *BSD systems. Note, the kernel
drivers on most of these systems are still fragile.
There are known problems, for example, on FreeBSD.
- Fix killpower on USB UPSes to properly turn off UPS.
- More killpower fixes for BackUPS Pros.
- Fix killpower sequence for serial UPSes.
Change Log for current version
----> Release 3.10.17 xxMar05
- Update default apcupsd.conf to recommend a blank DEVICE setting for USB
driver.
- Add /dev/hiddev? to Linux USB driver device node search path.
- Add Mac OS X startup script
- Add new *BSD USB driver to support USB UPSes on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
THIS DRIVER IS BETA SOFTWARE AND HAS A KNOWN LOCKUP ISSUE ON FREEBSD. Please
keep this in mind when deciding whether or not to deploy it. PLEASE READ THE
"CHECKING OUT YOUR USB SUBSYSTEM (BSD)" SECTION OF THE MANUAL as it contains
crucial details on how to configure your system for the new driver.
- Add BackUPS Pro shutdown code to USB driver
- Prefer BackUPS style shutdown over SmartUPS in USB driver to resolve shutdown
issues on BackUPS CS models
- Restructure USB driver to share common code
- Fix slave mode segfault bug introduced by --killpower fixes in 3.10.16.
- Commit kernstodo
- Added an anonymous patch to powerflute.c and to the slack-apcupsd.in file.
- Add Whitebox to detected systems.
- Minor tweak to RedHat spec.in
- Apply Carl Lindbergs patch
for apcaction.c to fix the network management card
shutdown.
- Fix typo in targets.mak that prevents uninstall from working.
- Change name of thread_terminate to apc_thread_terminate to avoid
conflict on AIX.
- Put configure found SHUTDOWN in apccontrol.in
- Figured out how to scale the pdf images, so re-did them.
- Some minor updates to the manual, particularly the title
11