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
Configuration Directive Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
General Configuration Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Configuration Directives Used by the Network Information Server160
Configuration Directives used during Power Failures . . . . . 161
Configuration Directives used to Control System Logging . . 164
Configuration Directives for Sharing a UPS . . . . . . . . . . 165
Configuration Directives Used to Set the UPS EPROM . . . 168
apcupsd Status Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Status report format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Status Report Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Status Report Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Logging the STATUS Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Shutown Sequence and its Discontents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Shutdown Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Shutdown Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Master/Slave Shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Windows Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
APC smart protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
RS-232 differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Diagram for cable hackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Smart Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Dip switch info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Status bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
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