apcupsd-ups - Man Page

apcupsd-ups -h

apcupsd-ups -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]

This driver is a client to apcupsd (another UPS monitoring project).

apcupsd-ups acts as an apcupsd client, simply forwarding data. This can be useful in cases where both protocols are required in a network, or in case apcupsd has a required UPS access mode missing from NUT.

This driver supports the following optional settings in nut.conf(5):

port=<hostname>[:<port>]

This is the name of a remote host running apcupsd (plus an optional port).

For instance:

[apcupsd]
            driver = apcupsd-ups
            port = localhost
            desc = "apcupsd client"

This driver was originally written in one evening to allow interoperating with apcupsd.

The following variables are translated from apcupsd to NUT. All times should be converted to seconds (please file a bug if you notice a mismatch in units).

Access to apcupsd is strictly read only: no commands can be issued. This stems from the design of apcupsd, where the settings are changed in apctest. In order to run apctest, apcupsd must be stopped (and it is apcupsd exposes the UPS to the network and to this NUT driver as its client).

Andreas Steinmetz

ups.conf(5), nutupsdrv(8)

nutupsdrv(8), upsd(8).