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
percent , 162
Pin Assignment for the Serial Port
(RS-232C), 25-pin and 9-
pin, Female End , 148
Planning Your Installation , 9
Port
Connecting a APC USB UPS
to either a PC USB or Se-
rial , 131
Connecting a Serial-Line UPS
to a USB , 130
Post Installation , 124
Power Down During Shutdown ,
128
powered , 97
powerout , 99
Problem Areas , 124
Problems
Known , 109
Master/Slave , 101
Shutdown , 180
Process-Status Test , 53
Programming the UPS EEPROM
, 194
Programs
apcupsd Network Monitoring
CGI , 71
Setting up and Testing the
CGI , 71
Project Discussions: , 199
Project Starter and Former Code
Maintainer: , 197
Protocol
APC smart , 181
Smart , 183
Questions
Frequently-Asked , 90
Quick Start for Beginners , 9
Read failure from socket , 105
Recalibrating the UPS Runtime ,
156
Recommended Options for most
Systems , 33
Reference
Configuration Directive , 159
Technical , 159
REG1 , 175
REG2 , 175
REG3 , 175
Register 1 , 190
Register 2 , 190
Register 3 , 190
RELEASE , 173
Release Notes , 6
remotedown , 99
restartme , 99
RETPCT , 174
RETURNCHARGE <min. batt.
charge level> , 170
Revision
Interpretation of the New
Firmware , 192
Interpretation of the Old
Firmware , 191
RPM Packager: , 197
RS-232 differences , 182
RS232 Wiring and Signal Conven-
tions , 148
runlimit , 99
Running
Making sure apcupsd Is , 46
Running apcnisd from INETD ,
111
Running apcnisd Standalome ,
112
Running the server as a child of
apcupsd , 110
Runtime
Recalibrating the UPS , 156
Sample NIS Slave Configuration
Using the Net Driver , 51
SELFTEST , 175
SENSE , 174
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