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9. To verify that your UPS is communicating with your computer and
will do the right thing when the power goes out, read and follow the
instructions in the Testing (see Testing Apcupsd) section.
10. If you run into problems, read the Troubleshooting (see
Troubleshooting Your Installation) section of this manual.
11. If you still need help, send a message to the developer’s email list
apcupsd-users at lists.sourceforge.net describing your problem, what
version of apcupsd you are using, what operating system you are using,
and anything else you think might be helpful.
12. Read the manual sections on monitoring and maintaining your UPS.
Supported Operating Systems, UPSes and Cables
Please note that due to the lack of Unix USB API standards, the USB code
in apcupsd works only on Linux and *BSD systems. In addition, at the
current release (3.10.17) the USB support for *BSD systems can at best be
considered BETA due to fragile kernel drivers. Drivers for other OSes can
be written, but it requires someone with a knowledge of the OS and the
USB to do so. (This lack of a Unix USB API interface is one of the big
failings of Unix. It occurs in other areas such as the GUI. Many people tout
the diversity as an advantage, but it is in fact a weakness.)
The apcupsd maintainers develop it under Fedora (Red Hat); that port is,
accordingly, the most up to date and best tested. There are enough Debian
Linux users that that port is also generally pretty fresh. Slackware Linux is
also fully supported.
apcupsd has also been ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, HP/UX,
Solaris, Alpha Unix and the Cygwin Unix emulation under Windows. It is
quite likely to work on those systems, though the port may occasionally get
stale and require minor tweaking.
In Operating System Specifics you’ll find operating-system-specific tips for
building and configuring apcupsd.
You can generally count on your UPS being supported if it has either
an Ethernet-connected SNMP interface or a USB interface with an APC-
supplied cable.
The “UPSTYPE Keyword” field is the value you will put in your
/etc/apcupsd/apcupd.conf file to tell apcupsd what type of UPS you have.
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