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"Apcupsd can be used for power mangement and controlling most of APC's UPS models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such a Back-UPS, and BackUPS-Office. During a power failure, apcupsd will inform the users about the power failure and that a shutdown may occur. If power is not restored, a system shutdown will follow when the battery is exhausted, a timeout (seconds) expires, or runtime expires based on internal APC calculations determined by power consumption rates. Apcupsd is licensed under the GPL version 2." [http://www.apcupsd.org/] | "Apcupsd can be used for power mangement and controlling most of APC's UPS models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such a Back-UPS, and BackUPS-Office. During a power failure, apcupsd will inform the users about the power failure and that a shutdown may occur. If power is not restored, a system shutdown will follow when the battery is exhausted, a timeout (seconds) expires, or runtime expires based on internal APC calculations determined by power consumption rates. Apcupsd is licensed under the GPL version 2." [http://www.apcupsd.org/] | ||
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==Installation== | ==Installation== | ||
=== Emerging === | === Emerging === | ||
Emerge {{Package|sys-power/acpupsd}}: | Emerge {{Package|sys-power/acpupsd}}: | ||
Latest revision as of 17:58, September 16, 2014
APC UPS Daemon
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"Apcupsd can be used for power mangement and controlling most of APC's UPS models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such a Back-UPS, and BackUPS-Office. During a power failure, apcupsd will inform the users about the power failure and that a shutdown may occur. If power is not restored, a system shutdown will follow when the battery is exhausted, a timeout (seconds) expires, or runtime expires based on internal APC calculations determined by power consumption rates. Apcupsd is licensed under the GPL version 2." [1]
Installation
Emerging
Emerge No results:
root # emerge apcupsd
Configuration and Runlevel Registration
Edit your /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf properly.
To start apcupsd, run the following:
root # /etc/init.d/apcupsd start
To add apcupsd to the appropriate runlevels, execute the following commands:
root # rc-update add apcupsd default * service apcupsd added to runlevel default root # rc-update add apcupsd.powerfail shutdown * service apcupsd added to runlevel shutdown
Check UPS status
Finally, to check on the status of acpupsd, run the following:
root # apcaccess status root # tail -f /var/log/apcupsd.events