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
Determining Which Voltage-
Signaling Cable You , 155
Hid-ups and USB Specific Infor-
mation , 71
HITRANS , 174
HITRANSFER <upper limit of
ups batt. transfer> , 169
HOSTNAME , 173
How do I build Apcupsd for plat-
form xxx? , 195
How do I control whether usb sup-
port gets built? , 196
How To Use This Manual , 9
HP-UX Port , 198
HUMIDITY , 175
I’m getting errors about not hav-
ing permission when , 196
Implementation Details , 114
INETD
Running apcnisd from , 111
Info
Dip switch , 188
Information
hid-ups and USB Specific , 71
Logging the STATUS , 176
SNMP Specific , 109
Installation
After , 44
Planning Your , 9
Post , 124
Troubleshooting Your , 65
Verifying a Source , 28
Installation , 116
Installation Directory , 122
Installation from Binary Packages
, 26
Installation from Source , 27
Installation: Serial-Line UPSes ,
130
Installation: Windows , 116
Internal Apcupsd Actions for Sim-
ple Cables , 146
Interpretation of the New
Firmware Revision ,
192
Interpretation of the Old
Firmware Revision ,
191
Ioctl to RS232 Correspondence ,
149
Issues
Apcupsd Known USB , 15
ITEMP , 174
Kernel Config , 200
KILLDELAY <time in seconds> ,
164
Killpower under Windows , 127
Known Problems , 109
Known Problems with USB UPSes
, 65
LASTXFER , 174
LINEFREQ , 174
LINEV , 57, 173
loadlimit , 98
LOADPCT , 173
LOCKFILE <path to lockfile> ,
160
Logging
apcupsd Status , 170
apcupsd System , 113
Configuration Directives used
to Control System , 164
DATA , 113, 158
EVENTS , 114
STATUS , 113
Logging Test , 55
Logging the STATUS Information
, 176
Logging Types , 113
LOTRANS , 174
LOTRANSFER <lower limit of
ups batt. transfer> , 169
Machine
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