Configure APC UPS with Fedora 11

manager Tue, 04/05/2011 - 23:03

Follow the guide at: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-248411.html

I have the high end APC Smart-ups SUA1500, both it and your APC use a USB port to talk to the unit.
With mine I'm using the packages (yum install <package>):

apcupsd
apcupsd-cgi
apcupsd-gui

But really all you'd need is the first one (apcupsd) for runlevel 3 to be covered, the gui package gives you a nice
GUI tool to monitor the UPS and it even has a icon for the task bar so you can see what the UPS is doing.
the cgi one is for having a web interface if you have apache running.

Just install apcupsd package and use chkconfig or system-config-services to turn on the apcupsd service
after configuring the /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf file

In my .conf file I set it to:

UPSCABLE usb
UPSTYPE usb
DEVICE

and all the rest I left defaulted as what the file came with, it seems to call various scripts
which do the proper things like do a graceful power down when a reasonable time elapses
during an outage or the battery goes below a certain percentage of remaining power.
That "DEVICE" option should be left as is (no second part), the comment in the conf file says
to so that's what I did.