Using apctest on Serial-Line UPSses

On an apcsmart serial-line UPS, apctest will give you access to the battery of low-level tests we described in apctest. If you have a voltage-signalling UPS, it enables a diﬀerent test repertoire which is described here, Among other things, if you are uncertain about what kind of cable you have, you may be able to use apctest to ﬁgure that out.

Shutdown apcupsd if it is running. Make sure your /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf ﬁle has UPSTYPE backups and UP- SCABLE simple Normally apctest will have been built and installed by default, otherwise, you can explicitly build it on Unix with:

cd <apcupsd-source-directory> make apctest

./apctest

on Win32 systems, use:

make apctestwin32

./apctest

It will present you with the following output

2001-02-07 04:08:26 apctest 3.8.5 (3 January 2002) redhat

Checking configuration ...

sharenet.type = DISABLE

cable.type = CUSTOM_SIMPLE

mode.type = BK

Setting up serial port ...

Creating serial port lock file ...

Doing prep_serial() ...

Hello, this is the apcupsd Cable Test program.

This part of apctest is for testing dumb UPSes (ones that uses signaling rather than commands.

Most tests enter a loop polling every second for 10 seconds.

Then it will present you with the following list of choices:

1)Test 1 - normal mode

2)Test 2 - no cable

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UPS control system specifications

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APC UPS control system manual Using apctest on Serial-Line UPSses, On Win32 systems, use

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