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
p Shutdown grace delay, seconds Default “020” (020/180/300/600)
q Low battery warning, minutes Default “02”
r Wakeup delay (time) - seconds Default “000” (000/060/180/300)
s Sensitivity “H” - highest, “M” - medium, “L”
- lowest, “A” - autoadjust (Matrix
only)
u Upper transfer voltage Default “132” or “253” in Europe
t Measure-UPS: ambient tempera-
ture (degrees C)
“nn.nn”
x Last battery change Eight characters. Varies typically
dd/mm/yy - 31/12/99
y Copyright notice “(C) APCC” - only works if
firmware letter (from “V”) is later
than O
z Reset the EEPROM to factory
settings (but not ident or batt
replacement date) Not on Smar-
tUPS v/s or BackUPS Pro
“CLEAR”
+ Capability cycle Cycle forward through possible
values (“—” from UPS afterward
to confirm change). Do not use
this unless you know how to pro-
gram your UPS EEPROM or you
may damage your UPS.
- Capability cycle Cycle backward through possible
values (“—” from UPS afterward
to confirm change)Do not use this
unless you know how to program
your UPS EEPROM or you may
damage your UPS.
@nnn Shutdown (after delay ’p’) with
delayed wakeup of nnn tenths of
an hour (after ’r’ time)
Matrix/3rd gen UPS: “OK”, oth-
ers “*”
0x7f
(DEL
key)
Abort shutdown - use to abort @,
S, K—K
“OK”
˜ Register #1 See below
’ Register #2 See below
0 Battery constant Set to A0 on SmartUPS 1000 with
new battery
4 ??? Prints 35 on SmartUPS 1000
5 ??? Prints EF on SmartUPS 1000
6 ??? Prints F9 on SmartUPS 1000
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