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

X Results of last self test “OK” - good battery, “BT” -
failed due to insufficient capac-
ity, “NG” - failed due to overload,
“NO” - no results available (no
test performed in last 5 minutes)
Y Enter smart mode “SM”
Z—Z Shutdown immediately (no delay)
- need > 1.5s between first and sec-
ond Z
N/A
a Show protocol version.alert mes-
sages.valid commands (delimited
by periods)
“3.!$%+?=#—.ˆAˆNˆZ+-
789<@ABCDEFGKLMNOPQRSUVWXYZ’abcefgjklmnopqrsuvzy˜ˆ?”
- Link-Level.alert-
messages.commands
b Firmware revision “50.9.D” - 50 = SKU (vari-
able length), 9 = firmware
revision, D = country code
(D=USA, I=International,
A=Asia, J=Japan, M=Canada)
c UPS local id UPS
IDEN (you can program any
8 characters here)
e Return threshold % battery charge threshold for re-
turn (00=00%, 01=15%, 02=25%,
03=90%)
f Battery level % Ranges - typical “100.0” when
fully charged as should normally
be the case
g Nominal battery voltage (not ac-
tual voltage - see B)
“012” or “024” or “048”.
h Measure-UPS: ambient humidity
(%)
“nnn.n” - percentage
i Measure-UPS: dry contacts 10 = contact 1, 20 = 2, 40 = 3, 80
= 4
j Estimated runtime at current load
(minutes)
“0112:” (note, it is terminated
with a colon)
k Alarm delay 0(zero) = 5 second delay after fail,
T = 30 second delay, L = alarm at
low battery only, N = no alarm
l Low transfer voltage Default “103” or “208” in Europe
m Manufacturing date Unique within groups of UPSes
(production runs)
n Serial number Unique for each UPS
o Nominal Output Voltage The Nominal Output Voltage
when running on batteries. De-
fault “115” or “230” in Europe.
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