Probably born of frustration with the anemic PowerChute software included with most APC UPSes, apcupsd (http://www.apcupsd.com/) is a powerful open source (GPL) alternative.
Learning has never been so easy!
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Most notable are USB compatibility for Mac OS X Lion and a fix for missing and/or spurrious status values on newer BackUPS CS USB models. Please see the ReleaseNotes for details. Apcupsd 3.14.10 is the latest stable release, containing many bug fixes and new features over previous releases. My APC UPS beeps whenever the power fails. If this happens at night, the beep is loud enough to wake people. The beep can be disabled by software in Windows, but not in the Mac version of PowerChute Personal Edition. The Mac version provides features that Mac OS X already provides: shutdown timers for any UPS connected via USB.
Most if not all APC UPSes allow only a single system to monitor the UPS' status if PowerChute is used. To support simple tasks like graceful shutdown on additional systems, expensive hardware (network management cards) and/or increased software licensing is required. There are no artificial limits to the number of systems that can be supported by apcupsd and it is supported on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD and Solaris operating systems.
Apcupsd has both server and client modes. Running as a server on a system directly connected to a UPS, apcupsd monitors the UPS' status and passively provides this information to clients. Best browser for mac os x 10.6. Running as a client, apcupsd can be configured to periodically request status information from an apcupsd server. Based on the information retrieved, the client can perform local tasks such as a graceful shutdown.
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APC technical support is known to recommend apcupsd to its customers.
Powerchute Personal Edition For Mac Os X 10 13 Download1 Steps totalStep 1: Download and install apcupsd for your platform(s)
Download and install apcupsd as a server on the system connected to the UPS monitor port (USB or Serial). Change configuration settings in apcupsd.conf as appropriate. The configuration file provides basic documentation and is self-explanatory for the most part. For more detailed information, see the Configuration Examples section of the User Manual (http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html).
After the server is installed and configured, install apcupsd as a client on the remaining systems protected by the monitored UPS. Configuration on clients will differ slightly from the server configuration. Clients should be configured to begin graceful shutdown before servers, otherwise clients may not be able to retrieve status of the UPS in the case of power failure.
Enjoy your free monitoring software!
Published: Aug 07, 2010 ยท Last Updated: Apr 19, 2014
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