Install apcupsd¶

Requirements¶

• a installed and supported operating system (e.g. CentOS 6.x)
• root-access
• a fast internet connection

Preliminary Note¶

using USB connection instead of the default RS232
This setup works with:

Install¶

yum install apcupsd

Configure apcupsd¶

vim /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

UPSCABLE usb

UPSTYPE usb
DEVICE

BATTERYLEVEL 50

MINUTES 15

TIMEOUT 360

KILLDELAY 5

WAKEUP 60

Start apcupsd¶

manually start apcupsd:

/etc/init.d/apcupsd start

automatically start the service at boot time:

/sbin/service apcupsd on

you can check the runlevels by

/sbin/chkconfig --list apcupsd

apcupsd     0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on   4:off   5:on   6:off

Usage¶

/etc/init.d/apcupsd status

Test¶

• connect server to "permanent" power supply
• connect server to UPS via USB-cable
• test data-reading
• unplug UPS from supply
• you should get "on battery" warning
• after some time server should initiate shutdown
• after some more time UPS should kill itself