Apcupsd unofficial addon…

[lightenup]

I use apcupsd all over my network and I really wanted my firewall to be included as well. Here is a small guide on how I got it running. I use a remote apcupsd server running as master, so my pfsense (v1.2.3-RELEASE) box  is a network slave.

#Install the packages:
pkg_add -r apcupsd

#Set up apcupsd to run at startup:
mv /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apcupsd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apcupsd.sh
mv /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

#Modify the config file, see below for my full config.

vi /usr/local/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

#Edit the following file to enable startup at boot time:
vi /etc/defaults/rc.conf

#Add the following line in the Miscellaneous administrative options section:
apcupsd_enable="YES"    # Run apcupsd

#Finally start her up:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apcupsd.sh start

#apcupsd should now be running:

ps -aux | grep apc
root   21209  0.0  0.2  6488  2120  ??  Ss   12:28PM   0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/apcupsd –kill-on-powerfail

#Run apcaccess to see all is well.

Here is my full apcupsd.conf file:

cat apcupsd.conf | grep -v # | grep -v ^$

UPSNAME UPSSERVER
UPSCABLE ether
UPSTYPE net
DEVICE 192.168.1.1:3551
POLLTIME 10
LOCKFILE /var/spool/lock
SCRIPTDIR /usr/local/etc/apcupsd
PWRFAILDIR /var/run
NOLOGINDIR /var/run
ONBATTERYDELAY 6
BATTERYLEVEL 5
MINUTES 3
TIMEOUT 0
ANNOY 300
ANNOYDELAY 60
NOLOGON disable
KILLDELAY 0
NETSERVER on
NISIP 127.0.0.1
NISPORT 3551
EVENTSFILE /var/log/apcupsd.events
EVENTSFILEMAX 10
UPSCLASS standalone
UPSMODE disable
STATTIME 0
STATFILE /var/log/apcupsd.status
LOGSTATS off
DATATIME 0

Hope this helps some of you out there.

• LiGHT

EDIT:  I updated this guide for the latest version - 4/10/10

[danswartz]

thanks!  i am running apcsupsd on 3 linux boxes, and my (about to be installed) pfsense gateway could use it too…