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
Connecting a APC USB UPS to either a PC USB or Serial Port . 131
Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Smart-Custom Cable for SmartUPSes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Smart Signalling Cable for BackUPS CS Models . . . . . . . 132
Voltage-Signalling Cable for ”dumb” UPSes . . . . . . . . . . 134
Other APC Cables that apcupsd Supports . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Voltage Signalling Features Supported by Apcupsd for Various Cables137
Voltage Signalling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Back-UPS Office 500 signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Analyses of APC Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Win32 Implementation Restrictions for Simple UPSes . . . . 146
Internal Apcupsd Actions for Simple Cables . . . . . . . . . . 146
RS232 Wiring and Signal Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Pin Assignment for the Serial Port (RS-232C), 25-pin and 9-pin, Female End148
Ioctl to RS232 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Testing Serial-Line UPSes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Establishing Serial Port Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Using apctest on Serial-Line UPSses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Troubleshooting Serial Line communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Determining Which Voltage-Signaling Cable You Have . . . . 155
Once you have established serial communications . . . . . . . 155
Recalibrating the UPS Runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Status Logging On Serial-Line UPSes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
DATA Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Technical Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
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