APC UPS control system instruction

qualiﬁed name or IP address of the host (NIS server) and the port (optional) is the port to use to contact the server.

If you speciﬁed UPSTYPE snmp, then the device name becomes hostname:vendor:community. Please see the SNMP chapter (see Support for SNMP UPSes) in this manual for more details.

LOCKFILE <path to lockﬁle> This option tells apcupsd where to create a lockﬁle for the USB or serial port in the speciﬁed directory. This is important to keep two programs from reading or writing the port at the same time. Please note that although the directive name is LOCKFILE, you are actually specifying the lock ﬁle path. apcupsd au- tomatically appends the name of the device when creating the ﬁle. On most systems, this directive is automatically set by the ./configure program. You may also explicitly set it during the build process by using the --with-lock-dir= option of the ./configure program.

Conﬁguration Directives Used by the Network Information Server

None of these directives are required for proper operation of apcupsd. For the Network Information Server to work, it must be enabled in the conﬁgu- ration (default) with --enable-nis

NETSERVER [on — oﬀ] This conﬁguration directive turns the net- work information server on or oﬀ. If it is on, apcupsd will spawn a child process that serves STATUS and EVENTS information over the network. This information is currently used by the Web-based CGI programs. The default is on. In some cases, for added security, you may want to invoke a separate information server daemon from the inetd daemon. In that case, NETSERVER should be oﬀ.

NISIP <IP-address> This directive speciﬁes an 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. You may also use the --with-nisip= option of the

./configure program to set this directive during the build.

This directive does not work on Win32 machines because inet ipton() is not implemented there.

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UPS control system specifications

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