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
940-0095B Cable Wiring:
This diagram is for informational purposes and may not be complete, we
don’t recommend that use it to build one yourself.
APC Part# - 940-0095B
Signal Computer UPS
DB9F DB9M
DTR 4 ----*
CTS 8 ----|
DSR 6 ----|
DCD 1 ----*
GND 5 ---------------*---- 4 Ground
|
*---- 9 Common
RI 9 ----*
|
RxD 2 ----*--------------- 2 On Battery
TxD 3 ----------[####]---- 1 Kill UPS Power
4.7K ohm
940-0119A Cable Wiring:
This diagram is for informational purposes and may not be complete, we
don’t recommend that use it to build you build one yourself. This cable is
used with the BackUPS Office UPSes.
APC Part# - 940-0119A
UPS Computer
pins pins Signal Signal meaning
1 (brown) 4,6 DSR DTR <- Shutdown when set by computer for 1-5 seconds.
2 (black) 8,9 RI CTS -> On battery power
3 (blue) 1,2 CD RxD -> Low battery
4 (red) 5 Ground
5 (yellow) 7 RTS <- Begin signalling on other pins
6 (none) none
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