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
E Automatic self test intervals Default = 336 (336 hours = 14
days) (336=14 days, 168=7 days,
ON=power on, OFF=never)
F Line frequency, Hz 60.00 (50.0 in Europe)
G Cause of transfer R = unacceptable utility voltage
rate of change, H = high utility
voltage, L = low utility voltage, T
= line voltage notch or spike, O
= no transfers yet (since turnon),
S = transfer due to serial port
U command or activation of UPS
test from front panel, NA = trans-
fer reason still not available (read
again).
K—K Shutdown with grace period (set
with ’p’) - need > 1.5s between
first and second K
Matrix/3rd gen SmartUPS/Black
Back-UPS Pros: “OK”, all others:
“*”
L Input line voltage Ranges - typical “118.3” or
“228.8” in Europe
M Maximum line voltage received
since last M query
Ranges - typical “118.9” or
“230.1” in Europe
N Minimum line voltage received
since last N query
Ranges - typical “118.9” or
“226.2” in Europe
O Output voltage Ranges - typical “118.3” or
“228.8” in Europe
P Power load % Ranges - typical “011.4” depends
on what you have plugged in.
Q Status flags Bitmapped, see below
R Turn dumb Only on 3rd gen Smar-
tUPS, SmartUPS v/s, BackUPS
Pro
“BYE”
S Soft shutdown after ’p’ delay, re-
turn online when power returns
Only works when UPS is on bat-
tery
OK
U Simulate power failure !! when switching to battery, then
$ when back on line
V Old firmware revision “GWD” or “IWI” The last charac-
ter indicates the locale (Domestic,
International).
W Self test (battery), results stored
in “X”
“OK”
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