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
When using this cable with apcupsd specify the following in apcupsd.conf:
If you have an OS that requires DCD or RTS to be set before you can
receive input, you might try building the standard APC Smart 940-0024C
cable listed below.
UPSCABLE smart
UPSTYPE apcsmart
DEVICE /dev/ttyS0 (or whatever your serial port is)
If you wish to build the standard cable furnished by APC (940-0024C), use
the following diagram.
APC Smart Cable 940-0024C
Signal Computer UPS
DB9F DB9M
RxD 2 -------------------- 2 TxD Send
TxD 3 -------------------- 1 RxD Receive
DCD 1 --*
|
DTR 4 --*
GND 5 -------------------- 9 Ground
RTS 7 --*
|
CTS 8 --*
Smart Signalling Cable for BackUPS CS Models
If you have a BackUPS CS, you are probably either using it with the USB
cable that is supplied or with the 940-0128A supplied by APC, which permits
running the UPS in dumb mode. By building your own cable, you can now
run the BackUPS CS models (and perhaps also the ES models) using smart
signalling and have all the same information that is available as running it
in USB mode.
The jack in the UPS is actually a 10 pin RJ45. However, you can just as
easily use a 8 pin RJ45 connector, which is more standard (ethernet TX,
and ISDN connector). It is easy to construct the cable by cutting off one
end of a standard RJ45-8 ethernet cable and wiring the other end (three
wires) into a standard DB9F female serial port connector.
Below, you will find a diagram for the CUSTOM-RJ45 cable:
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