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
Checking Your Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Arranging for Reboot on Power-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Making sure apcupsd Is Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuration Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Simple USB Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Simple Configuration for a SmartUPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Simple Configuration for a Simple Signaling or Dumb . . . . 49
Simple Master Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Simple Slave Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Variation on the Master/Slave Configuration . . . . . . . . . 51
Sample NIS Slave Configuration Using the Net Driver . . . . 51
Testing Apcupsd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Process-Status Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Logging Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
apcaccess Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Communications Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Simulated Power Fail Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
System Shutdown Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Full Power Down Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Shutdown Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
apctest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Troubleshooting Your Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Known Problems with USB UPSes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Monitoring and Tuning your UPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
apcaccess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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