Installing APC USV apcupsd daemon on OpenSolaris

Submitted by tschinke on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 04:50

My assumption is a bare installed OpenSolaris 2008/11. The aim is to install the apcupsd daemon. First you need to install some development-stuff: gcc(SUNWgcc), gnu make (SUNWgmake) and SUNWsfwhea (lots of headers including needed usb.h) using the packagemanager. Then download the tar ball and go on:

tar zxvf apcupsd-3.14.4.tar.gz
cd apcupsd-3.14.4
sh configure --enable-usb
make
sudo make install
sudo reboot -- -r

If you compiled it successfully, make a reboot and tell solaris that you want to rebuild the services (reboot -r). Now you see some exceptions at startup which mention something about /dev/tty, which is the serial port (commonly usb is used today), so locate your config-file

find / -name apcupsd.conf 
# in my case /etc/opt/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

Now you have to clear the DEVICE-entry to be empty, so apcupsd will search automatically for it. Also change UPSCABLE and UPSTYPE both to usb.
If there are no exceptions on startup (check dmesg) you can grab the infos by executing

/etc/opt/apcupsd/sbin/apcaccess
APC      : 001,035,0836
DATE     : Fri Apr 03 13:29:46 CEST 2009
HOSTNAME : zelos
RELEASE  : 3.14.5
VERSION  : 3.14.5 (10 January 2009) sun
UPSNAME  : zelos
CABLE    : USB Cable
MODEL    : USB UPS Driver
UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: Fri Apr 03 12:39:29 CEST 2009
STATUS   : ONLINE 
LINEV    : 236.0 Volts
LOADPCT  :   1.0 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT :  41.9 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 5 Percent
MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes
MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
SENSE    : Medium
LOTRANS  : 180.0 Volts
HITRANS  : 266.0 Volts
ALARMDEL : Always
BATTV    : 13.5 Volts
LASTXFER : No transfers since turnon
NUMXFERS : 0
TONBATT  : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
XOFFBATT : N/A
STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag
MANDATE  : 2008-05-19
SERIALNO : 
BATTDATE : 2000-00-00
NOMINV   : 230 Volts
NOMBATTV :  12.0 Volts
APCMODEL : 
END APC  : Fri Apr 03 13:30:17 CEST 2009

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2 comments posted

typing error

Hi!

Thanks for your tutorial!
You have only a small typing error on line 3 at the shell commands.
It should be: "sh configure --enable-usb"

Best wishes,
Rene

Posted by René (not verified) on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 09:51

typing error

thx for the hint

Posted by tschinke on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 13:06

Installing APC USV apcupsd daemon on OpenSolaris

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