Apcupsd Notification and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
hid-ups and USB Specific Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
apcupsd Network Monitoring (CGI) Programs . . . . . . . . . 71
Setting up and Testing the CGI Programs . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Configuring Your EEPROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Maintaining Your UPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
What Various People Have to Say about Batteries . . . . . . 83
Where Carl Suggests You Get Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Frequently-Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Apcupsd Bugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Advanced topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Customizing Event Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
apccontrol Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Master/Slave Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Configuration Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Master/Slave Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Network Problems with Master/Slave or Server/Slave Configurations103
Controlling Multiple UPSes on one Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Support for SNMP UPSes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Connecting an SNMP UPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Building and Installing apcupsd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
SNMP Specific Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Known Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Alternate Ways To Run The Network Information Server . . . . . 110
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