APCSMART

APCSMART

NAME NOTE SUPPORTED HARDWARE CABLING EXTRA ARGUMENTS BUGS AUTHOR SEE ALSO

NAME

apcsmart - Driver for American Power Conversion Smart Protocol UPS equipment

NOTE

This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the apcsmart driver. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8).

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

apcsmart should recognize all APC models that use a serial protocol at 2400 bps. This is primarily the Smart-UPS and Matrix-UPS lines, but some Back-UPS Pro models are also supported.

Some older hardware may only report a handful of variables. This is usually not a bug - they just don't support anything else.

CABLING

This driver expects to see a 940-0024C cable or a clone by default. You can switch to the 940-0095B dual-mode cable support with the cable= definition described below.

If your 940-0024C cable is broken or missing, use this diagram to build a clone:

http://www.exploits.org/nut/library/940-0024C.jpg

EXTRA ARGUMENTS

This driver supports the following optional values for -x and in the ups.conf(5):

cable=940-0095B

Configure the serial port for the APC 940-0095B dual-mode cable.

sdtype=num

Use shutdown type num, according to this table:

0: soft shutdown or powerdown, depending on battery status

1: soft shutdown followed by powerdown

2: instant power off

3: power off with grace period

Modes 0 and 1 will power up the load when power returns. Modes 2 and 3 will keep the load turned off when the power returns.

BUGS

Some older APC UPS models return bogus data in the status register during a front panel test. This is usually detected and discarded, but some other unexpected values have occasionally slipped through.

AUTHOR

Russell Kroll

SEE ALSO

The core driver:

nutupsdrv(8)

Internet resources:

The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.exploits.org/nut/

NUT mailing list archives and information: http://lists.exploits.org/