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
NOMOUTV : 115.0
NOMBATTV : 24.0
HUMIDITY : N/A
AMBTEMP : N/A
EXTBATTS : N/A
BADBATTS : N/A
FIRMWARE : N/A
APCMODEL : 6TD
END APC : Fri Dec 03 16:49:25 EST 1999
For a simple signaling or dumb UPS such as BackUPS, your output will be
very minimal as follows:
APC : 001,012,0319
DATE : Mon Feb 18 09:11:50 CST 2002
RELEASE : 3.8.5
UPSNAME : UPS_IDEN
CABLE : APC Cable 940-0128A
MODEL : BackUPS
UPSMODE : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: Mon Feb 18 09:11:45 CST 2002
LINEFAIL : OK
BATTSTAT : OK
STATFLAG : 0x008 Status Flag
END APC : Mon Feb 18 09:15:01 CST 2002
If you see the above output, it is a good sign that apcupsd is working.
Assuming that the output looks reasonable, check the following variables:
A very disturbing tendance is for some of the newer (Mar 2004) RS and ES
UPSes to have no Voltage information. This is annoying bug not serious. On
the other hand, some of those UPSes now have no battery charge information
(BCHARGE). If BCHARGE is zero in your listing and you are running a
Smart or a USB UPS, then you will have to set the BATTERYLEVEL
directive in your apcupsd.conf file to -1.
LINEV This is the line voltage and it should be a value that is appropriate
for your equipment. In the USA, it is typically about 120 Volts while
in Europe, it is about 220 Volts.
BATTV Unless you have additional battery packs, this should be near 24
Volts plus or minus 5 Volts.
STATUS This is the status of the UPS and it should normally be ON-
LINE.
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