need a UPS package [solved]

T-Dawg · 2005-03-13 14:23:41

I've got a APC backup ES 650 which connects via usb and I would like to find something to work with it to turn it off durning power outages. I've looked into openupsmart but I believe that is meant for serial type backups, says /dev/ttyS0 - thats serial right?. Anyways, I looked into apc's website for a linux version and they had a UNIX compatitble. I did a package build and tried to build but kept running into compile errors. I edited the source code about 5 or 6 times getting past the humps until I ran into an error that I couldn't solve. Any suggestions what to do?

mico · 2005-03-13 14:44:05

There is apcupsd, APC UPS daemon. Search this forum and TURs for PKGBUILDs. I took some other PKGBUILDs and scripts for /etc/rc.d as a reference and made this:

PKGBUILD:

pkgname=apcupsd
pkgver=3.10.15
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A daemon for controlling APC UPSes"
url="http://www.apcupsd.com"
license="GPL"
depends=('glibc')
backup=('etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf')
source=(http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('21b2b744ebcaa0010367a403a9c5e66c')

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-usb --enable-powerflute
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
  install -D -m755 $startdir/apcupsd $startdir/pkg/etc/rc.d/apcupsd
}

apcupsd

#!/bin/bash

. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions

PID=`pidof -o %PPID /sbin/apcupsd`
case "$1" in
start)
    stat_busy "Starting APC UPS Daemon"
    rm -f /etc/apcupsd/powerfail
#    rm -f /etc/nologin
    [ -z "$PID" ] && /sbin/apcupsd -f /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf
    if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
        stat_fail
    else
        echo $PID > /var/run/apcupsd.pid
        add_daemon apcupsd
        stat_done
    fi
    ;;
stop)
    stat_busy "Stopping APC UPS Daemon"
    [ ! -z "$PID" ]  && kill $PID &> /dev/null
    if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
        stat_fail
    else
        rm /var/run/apcupsd.pid
        rm_daemon apcupsd
        stat_done
    fi
    ;;
restart)
    $0 stop
    sleep 2
    $0 start
    ;;
status)
    /sbin/apcaccess status
    ;;
*)
    echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"  
esac
exit 0

I stopped using it, because it causes my system to freeze. It happens after a few hours or days, on random time. The logs show nothing. So I just uninstalled it. When new versions came out I upgraded, but that didn't help. Otherwise everything works, but it is still useless to me because it does more harm than good. If you manage to get it working right and your system won't crash for at least a few days, please post here your PKGBUILD and any other files you used for building the package.

puntmuts · 2005-03-13 16:48:29

Or you could look at NUT. They support a lot of APC equipment, including some experimental USB controlled devices as well.
http://us1.networkupstools.org/compat/stable.html

T-Dawg · 2005-03-13 18:59:54

Thanks mico I got it up and running and it does work so far. I've ran it for a couple hours now without any freezing problems yet. I did notice alot of configuration values unset by default needing user intervention to operate properly. The status log was one of them, once I enabled it I got a complete report on the UPS's status. Perhaps the freezing is related to finiky configuration? I had to pull out the data sheet a few times to set certain values. At any rate, I will keep an eye on things and update this thread with how its doing after a few days.

mico · 2005-03-13 19:35:19

Oh, right, I forgot about the config. Here's what I used for my Back-UPS CS 500:

grep -v # /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf
UPSCABLE usb
UPSTYPE usb
DEVICE /dev/usb/hid/hiddev0
LOCKFILE /var/lock
ONBATTERYDELAY 6
BATTERYLEVEL 15
MINUTES 3
TIMEOUT 300
ANNOY 120
ANNOYDELAY 60
NOLOGON disable
KILLDELAY 0
NETSERVER on
NISIP 0.0.0.0
NISPORT 3551
EVENTSFILE /var/log/apcupsd.events
EVENTSFILEMAX 10
UPSCLASS standalone
UPSMODE disable
STATTIME 0
STATFILE /var/log/apcupsd.status
LOGSTATS off
DATATIME 0

I used this with kernel 2.4 and devfs, so the DEVICE option is most probably wrong for udev. Now that I think of this, I never tried apcupsd after I upgraded kernel from 2.4 to 2.6 and replaced devfs with udev. Maybe I should give this software another try... could you post your config? Did you change any other files besides /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf?

T-Dawg · 2005-03-13 20:32:27

## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ##
# 
#  for apcupsd release 3.10.15 (04 August 2004) - unknown
#
# "apcupsd" POSIX config file
#
# ========= General configuration parameters ============
#
# UPSNAME xxx
#   Use this to give your UPS a name in log files and such. This
#   is particulary useful if you have multiple UPSes.  This does not
#   set the EEPROM.
UPSNAME emperor
#
# UPSCABLE [ simple    | smart     | ether     | usb |
#            940-0119A | 940-0127A | 940-0128A | 940-0020B |
#            940-0020C | 940-0023A | 940-0024B | 940-0024C |
#            940-1524C | 940-0024G | 940-0095A | 940-0095B |
#            940-0095C | M-04-02-2000 ]
#
# defines the type of cable that you have.
UPSCABLE usb
#
# Old types, still valid, are mapped to the new drivers
# 
#           keyword       driver used     
# UPSTYPE [ backups        dumb
#         | sharebasic     dumb
#         | netups         dumb
#         | backupspro     apcsmart
#         | smartvsups     apcsmart
#         | newbackupspro  apcsmart
#         | backupspropnp  apcsmart
#         | smartups       apcsmart
#         | matrixups      apcsmart
#         | sharesmart     apcsmart
#
# *** New driver names. They can be used directly 
#       rather than using one of the above aliases.
#
# UPSTYPE [ dumb | apcsmart | net | usb | snmp | test]
#
# defines the type of UPS you have.
UPSTYPE usb
#
#
#DEVICE <string> /dev/<serial port>
# name of your UPS device
#
# Here a table of the possible devices related with the UPS drivers.
#
#   NOTE!!! for USB devices, please use a form indicated below 
#      including the [0-15] as written!
#
# Driver   Device                    Description
# dumb     /dev/tty**                Serial character device
# apcsmart /dev/tty**                Serial character device
# usb      /dev/usb/hiddev[0-15]     On most systems
# net      hostname:port             Network link to a master apcupsd
#                                    through NIS
# snmp     hostname:port:vendor:community
#                                    SNMP Network link to an SNMP-enabled
#                                    UPS device. Vendor is the MIB used by
#                                    the UPS device: can be "APC" or "RFC"
#                                    where APC is the powernet MIB and RFC
#                                    is the IETF's rfc1628 UPS-MIB.
#                                    Port is usually 161.
DEVICE /dev/usb/hiddev0
#
#LOCKFILE <path to lockfile>
# path for serial port lock file
#LOCKFILE /var/lock
#
#
#
# ======== configuration parameters used during power failures ==========
#
# The ONBATTERYDELAY is the time in seconds from when a power failure
#   is detected until we react to it with an onbattery event.
#
#   This means that, apccontrol will be called with the powerout argument
#   immediately when a power failure is detected.  However, the
#   onbattery argument is passed to apccontrol only after the 
#   ONBATTERYDELAY time.  If you don't want to be annoyed by short
#   powerfailures, make sure that apccontrol powerout does nothing
#   i.e. comment out the wall.
ONBATTERYDELAY 6
# 
# Note: BATTERYLEVEL, MINUTES, and TIMEOUT work in conjunction, so
# the first that occurs will cause the initation of a shutdown.
#
# If during a power failure, the remaining battery percentage
# (as reported by the UPS) is below or equal to BATTERYLEVEL, 
# apcupsd will initiate a system shutdown.
BATTERYLEVEL 5
#
#
# If during a power failure, the remaining runtime in minutes 
# (as calculated internally by the UPS) is below or equal to MINUTES,
# apcupsd, will initiate a system shutdown.
MINUTES 3
#
#
# If during a power failure, the UPS has run on batteries for TIMEOUT
# many seconds or longer, apcupsd will initiate a system shutdown.
# A value of 0 disables this timer.
#
#  Note, if you have a Smart UPS, you will most likely want to disable
#    this timer by setting it to zero. That way, you UPS will continue
#    on batteries until either the % charge remaing drops to or below BATTERYLEVEL,
#    or the remaining battery runtime drops to or below MINUTES.  Of course,
#    if you are testing, setting this to 60 causes a quick system shutdown
#    if you pull the power plug.   
#  If you have an older dumb UPS, you will want to set this to less than
#    the time you know you can run on batteries.
TIMEOUT 480
#
#
#  Time in seconds between annoying users to signoff prior to
#  system shutdown. 0 disables.
ANNOY 300
#
# Initial delay after power failure before warning users to get
# off the system.
ANNOYDELAY 60
#
# The condition which determines when users are prevented from
# logging in during a power failure.
# NOLOGON <string> [ disable | timeout | percent | minutes | always ]
NOLOGON disable
#
#
# If killdelay is set, apcupsd will continue running after a
# shutdown has been requested, and after the specified time in
# seconds attempt to kill the power.  This is for use on systems
# where apcupsd cannot regain control after a shutdown.
# KILLDELAY <seconds>  0 disables
KILLDELAY 0
#
#
# ==== Configuration statements the network information server =========
#
# NETSERVER [ on | off ] on enables, off disables the network
#  information server. If netstatus is on, a network information
#  server process will be started for serving the STATUS and
#  EVENT data over the network (used by CGI programs).
NETSERVER off
#
# NISIP <dotted notation ip address>
#  IP address on which NIS server will listen for incoming connections.
#  Default value is 0.0.0.0 that means any incoming request will be
#  serviced but if you want it to listen to a single subnet you can
#  set it up to that subnet address, for example 192.168.10.0
#  Additionally you can listen for a single IP like 192.168.10.1
NISIP 0.0.0.0
#
# NISPORT <port> default is 3551 as registered with the IANA
#  port to use for sending STATUS and EVENTS data over the network.
#  It is not used unless NETSERVER is on. If you change this port,
#  you will need to change the corresponding value in the cgi directory
#  and rebuild the cgi programs.
NISPORT 3551
#
# If you want the last few EVENTS to be available over the network
# by the network information server, you must define an EVENTSFILE.
EVENTSFILE /var/log/apcupsd.events
#
# EVENTSFILEMAX <kilobytes>
#  By default, the size of the EVENTSFILE will be not be allowed to exceed
#  10 kilobytes.  When the file grows beyond this limit, older EVENTS will
#  be removed from the beginning of the file (first in first out).  The
#  parameter EVENTSFILEMAX can be set to a different kilobyte value, or set
#  to zero to allow the EVENTSFILE to grow without limit.
EVENTSFILEMAX 10
#
# ========== Configuration statements used if sharing =============
#            a UPS and controlling it via the network              
#
#      The configuration statements below are used if you
#      want to share one UPS to power multiple machines and have them
#      communicate by the network. Obviously, the master is connected
#      to the UPS via the serial cable, and it communicates to the
#      "slaves" via the network -- i.e. the slaves get their info
#      concerning the UPS via the ethernet.
#
# UPSCLASS [ standalone | shareslave | sharemaster | netslave | netmaster ]
# normally standalone unless you share a UPS with multiple machines.
UPSCLASS standalone
#
# Unless you want to share the UPS (power multiple machines).
#  this should be disable
# UPSMODE [ disable | share | net | sharenet ]
UPSMODE disable
#
# NETTIME <int>
#NETTIME 100
#
# NETPORT <int>
#NETPORT 6666
#
# MASTER <machine-name>
#MASTER
#
# SLAVE <machine-name>
#SLAVE slave1
#SLAVE slave2
#
# USERMAGIC <string>
#USERMAGIC
#
#
#
#
# ===== Configuration statements to control apcupsd system logging ========
#
# Time interval in seconds between writing the STATUS file; 0 disables
STATTIME 5
#
# Location of STATUS file (written to only if STATTIME is non-zero)
STATFILE /var/log/apcupsd.status
#
#
# LOGSTATS [ on | off ] on enables, off disables
# Note! This generates a lot of output, so if         
#       you turn this on, be sure that the
#       file defined in syslog.conf for LOG_NOTICE is a named pipe.
#  You probably do not want this on.
LOGSTATS off
#
#
# Time interval in seconds between writing the DATA records to
#   the log file. 0 disables.
DATATIME 0
#
# FACILITY defines the logging facility (class) for logging to syslog. 
#          If not specified, it defaults to "daemon". This is useful 
#          if you want to separate the data logged by apcupsd from other
#          programs.
#FACILITY DAEMON
#
#
#
#
# ========== Configuration statements used in updating the UPS EPROM =========
#
# UPS name, max 8 characters  -- used only during -n or --rename-ups
#UPSNAME UPS_IDEN
#
# Battery date - 8 characters -- used only during -u or --update-battery-date
#BATTDATE mm/dd/yy
#
#  The following items are set during -c or --configure
#                       
# Sensitivity to line voltage quality (H cause faster transfer to batteries)  
# SENSITIVITY H M L        (default = H)
#SENSITIVITY H
#
# UPS delay after power return (seconds)
# WAKEUP 000 060 180 300   (default = 0)
#WAKEUP 60
#
# UPS Grace period after request to power off (seconds)
# SLEEP 020 180 300 600    (default = 20)
#SLEEP 180
#
#
# Low line voltage causing transfer to batteries
# The permitted values depend on your model as defined by last letter 
#  of FIRMWARE or APCMODEL. Some representative values are:
#    D 106 103 100 097
#    M 177 172 168 182
#    A 092 090 088 086
#    I 208 204 200 196     (default = 0 => not valid)
LOTRANSFER  106
#
# High line voltage causing transfer to batteries
# The permitted values depend on your model as defined by last letter 
#  of FIRMWARE or APCMODEL. Some representative values are:
#    D 127 130 133 136
#    M 229 234 239 224
#    A 108 110 112 114
#    I 253 257 261 265     (default = 0 => not valid)
HITRANSFER 130
#
# Battery change needed to restore power
# RETURNCHARGE 00 15 50 90 (default = 15)
#RETURNCHARGE 15
#
# Alarm delay 
# 0 = zero delay after pwr fail, T = power fail + 30 sec, L = low battery, N = never
# BEEPSTATE 0 T L N        (default = 0)
#BEEPSTATE T
#
# Low battery warning delay in minutes
# LOWBATT 02 05 07 10      (default = 02)
#LOWBATT 2
#
# UPS Output voltage when running on batteries
# The permitted values depend on your model as defined by last letter 
#  of FIRMWARE or APCMODEL. Some representative values are:
#    D 115
#    M 208
#    A 100
#    I 230 240 220 225     (default = 0 => not valid)
OUTPUTVOLTS 115
#
# Self test interval in hours 336=2 weeks, 168=1 week, ON=at power on
# SELFTEST 336 168 ON OFF  (default = 336)
#SELFTEST 336

I made alot of changes to the config file, but only that one. Yes I am using the 2.6 kernel with udev. Everything with (default = 0 => not valid) I set, and stuck with the 'D' settings throughout (has D,M,A,I). Like I said, looking back at my data sheet helped as well as reading through every single setting and adjusting accordingly. My APC is a Back-UPS ES 650 via USB, so I'm sure your settings will vary slightly. I Hope this helps.
P.S. still no freezing!

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#1 2005-03-13 14:23:41

need a UPS package [solved]

#2 2005-03-13 14:44:05

Re: need a UPS package [solved]

#3 2005-03-13 16:48:29

Re: need a UPS package [solved]

#4 2005-03-13 18:59:54

Re: need a UPS package [solved]

#5 2005-03-13 19:35:19

Re: need a UPS package [solved]

#6 2005-03-13 20:32:27

Re: need a UPS package [solved]

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