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Apcupsd a daemon for controlling APC UPSes
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.
Apcupsd Hosted on Source Forge
We have moved the release of source and binaries (downloads) to Source Forge for several reasons: 1. Lack of manpower to maintain several sites, 2. The excellent Open Software Development services offered by Source Forge. In addition to hosting all our new releases, the Source Forge site has a CVS repository where you can find the very latest development software. Please visit it and become familiar with how it works.What is new in Apcupsd version 3.10.10
Apcupsd version 3.10.10 has a new offbattery event that will allow you to modify apccontrol to see only delayed transitions to battery as defined by ONBATTERYDELAY and transitions off battery. It also contains another a workaround for kernel 2.5 and 2.6 control queue overflows thanks to Adam Kropelin.Online 3.10.x Manual or a PDF Version of the Manual
If you want to learn a bit more about apcupsd, you can browse the manual online. If you have any corrections/comments to the manual, please send them to me at: kern at sibbald dot com. For bug reports and developer contact, please see below. If you want a pdf copy of the manual, you can find it here, and finally, if you want one big manual in a single html file, it can be found here.Apcupsd Network Information
To see my Linux/Windows APC UPSes running with apcupsd in real-time, just click here.Bugs and Email Support
Please don't email me directly, it is much better to address bug reports and questions to the user's mailing list, which is at:Apcupsd Mailing List. The previous address was modified to prevent easy use by spammers. To use it, you must replace the at with an @ symbol. In addition to a problem description, please include the following with any bug report you send: the apcupsd version that you are using; your operating system (uname -a); and if it involves configuration issues, your apcupsd.conf and apcupsd.events files.Release Notification and User's Email List
If you want to be notified by email when new releases are available, please sign up for the apcupsd-announce mailing list. This is easily accomplished by following the instructions at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/subscribe/apcupsd-announce.
If you would like to receive the user's email, please visit the following site and follow the instructions: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/subscribe/apcupsd-users.
Debian Users Stable Download
The Debian packages for apcupsd may be obtained directly from the Debian site at:http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/apcupsd.html
http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/apcupsd.html
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/apcupsd.html
For SuSE Users
You can find rpms at: http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2003/03/064-usv/apcupsd.For Mandrake Users
You can find apcupsd rpms at: http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2003/03/064-usv/apcupsd.Testers/Developers CVS Repository
This is where you can find the very latest source code at the official development CVS repository hosted by Source Forge.
Other Software for Apcupsd
David Ranch has developed some very interesting graphing support for APC UPSes, which works with apcupsd. Using apcupsd's logging capabilities, David provides setup instructions and scripts to produce high quality, daily PDF graphs of all the important UPS power conditions. To learn more about this, please visit his site.apcupsd does not run on Macs, but if you have a Mac that derives power from a UPS being controlled by apcupsd, you can protect your Mac in the event of a power failure by using a commercial software package called APC Tracker. The software is available for a 30 day free trial. For more information, please see www.apctracker.com.
APC
If you want to know more about APC products for protecting your computer, you can find it at the APC Home Site.