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
Operating System Specifics
With the exception of Linux SUSE and Linux Red Hat systems used by
the developers, we rely on users to help create installation scripts and in-
structions as well as to test that apcupsd runs correctly on their system.
As you can imagine, most of these people are system administrators rather
than developers so they are very busy and don’t always have time to test
the latest releases. With that in mind, we believe that you will find that a
lot of very valuable work has been already done to make your installation
much easier (and probably totally automatic).
Below, you will find a list of operating systems for which we have received
installation files:
• Alpha (see Alpha)
• Debian (see Debian)
• FreeBSD (see FreeBSD)
• HPUX (see HPUX)
• NetBSD (see NetBSD)
• OpenBSD (see OpenBSD)
• Red Hat (see Red Hat Systems)
• Slackware (see Slackware)
• SUSE (see SUSE)
• Solaris (see Sun Solaris)
• unknown (see Unknown System)
• Win32 (see Windows Systems with CYGWIN Installed)
Alpha:
The Alpha V4.0 version of apcupsd builds without compiler errors with
gcc version 2.95.2. It is unlikely that the native Alpha compiler will work
because of varargs differences. Unless you are a system guru, we recommend
that you connect your UPS to the second serial port /dev/tty01 to avoid
conflicts with the console device.
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