APC UPS and apcupsd help
From: Jack Frillman (jack_at_dnaco.net)
Date: 10/23/04
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:04:28 -0400
I have tried asking for help with this problem to the author and the
mailing list at sourcefourge but I have not received a response.
Soooooooooo I will try here....
I am trying to get apcupsd working on Fedora Core 2 with an APC backUPS
725 ES series UPS.
I successfully configured, compiled, installed and started apcuspd as a
simple one computer one UPS
configuration. I even get what appears to be valid the output
from running apcaccess status. See below:
[root@localhost root]# apcaccess status
APC : 001,033,0846
DATE : Sat Oct 16 13:36:24 EDT 2004
HOSTNAME : localhost.localdomain
RELEASE : 3.10.15
VERSION : 3.10.15 (04 August 2004) redhat
UPSNAME : localhost.localdomain
CABLE : USB Cable
MODEL : Back-UPS ES 725
UPSMODE : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: Sat Oct 16 13:36:23 EDT 2004
STATUS : ONLINE
LINEV : 118.0 Volts
LOADPCT : 59.0 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE : 090.0 Percent
TIMELEFT : 8.8 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 5 Percent
MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes
MAXTIME : 0 Seconds
LOTRANS : 088.0 Volts
HITRANS : 138.0 Volts
ALARMDEL : Always
BATTV : 13.4 Volts
NUMXFERS : 0
TONBATT : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
XOFFBATT : N/A
STATFLAG : 0x02000008 Status Flag
MANDATE : 2003-02-07
SERIALNO : QB0306263747
BATTDATE : 2000-00-00
NOMBATTV : 12.0
FIRMWARE : 02.n2.D USB FW:n2
APCMODEL : Back-UPS ES 725
END APC : Sat Oct 16 13:36:30 EDT 2004
[root@localhost root]#
I have gone through the manual and everything was going fine until I
began the "Communications Test" .
At this point I was unable to get the predicted results. When I
disconnect the USB cable from the UPS a wall message is not
sent and no apcupsd event messages are logged to apcupsd.events or
/var/log/messages. The only messages I see logged are the
disconnect and re-connect of a USB device in /var/log/messages. The
manual says correct this before continuing unless you have a dumb UPS.
Thinking that maybe the UPS I have is not as smart as I thought I proceeded
to the "Simulated Power Test" and I did not get the expected results either.
In other words no event messages were loged or sent to a console.
How do I correct the Communications test failure?
The manual says to correct it before contuning but does not give any
guidance on how.
Some other things I noticed and did to get to this point.
1) BATTV is 13.4 Volts instead of the "...should be near 24 volts...."
as stated in the manual. I am only using one battery. Don't know if this
has anything to do with it or not.
2) When I first tried starting apcupsd I specified a 940-1227A cable but
apcupsd would not start. When I changed this to USB it started. The USB
cable I have is stamped 940-1227B.
Thanks,
Jack
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