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

If the Services dialog reports a problem, it is normally because your
DEVICE statement does not contain the correct serial port name.
You probably should also click on the Startup... button to ensure that the
correct defaults are set. The dialogue box that appears should have Startup
Type set to Automatic and Logon should be set to System Account
with Allow Service to Interact with Desktop checked. If these values
are not set correctly by default, please change them otherwise apcupsd will
not work.
For WinXP systems (and probably Win2K), the dialogs are a bit diļ¬erent
from those shown here for WinNT, but he concept is the same. You get
to the Services dialog by clicking on: Control Panel -> Administrative
Tools -> Component Services. The apcupsd service should appear in
the right hand window when you click on Services (Local) in the left hand
menu window.
That should complete the installation process. When the system tray icon
turns from a battery into a plug , right click on it and a menu will
appear. Select the Events item, and the Events dialogue box should appear.
There should be no error messages. By right clicking again on the system
tray plug and selecting the Status item, you can verify that all the values
for your UPS are correct.
When the UPS switches to the battery, the battery icon will reappear in
the system tray. While the UPS is online, if the battery is not at least 99%
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