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Testing Apcupsd

The following testing procedures apply for the most part to SmartUPSes, whether USB or serial. If you

have a dumb voltage-signalling UPS, your testing procedures will be somewhat different, and you should

see the section on Testing Serial UPSes (see Testing Serial-Line UPSes).

Process-Status Test

After you start apcupsd, execute the following command:

ps fax

or the equivalent for your system. You should see something similar to the following output.

632 ? S 0:00 /sbin/apcupsd -f /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

841 ? S 0:00 \_ /sbin/apcupsd -f /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

842 ? S 0:00 \_ /sbin/apcupsd -f /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

This indicates that apcupsd is up and running and has started the two standard threads in addition to the

main thread.

If you see only one instance of apcupsd running, don't worry about it as this is normal on most non-Linux

systems, and on Linux 2.6.x kernels.

If you do not find that apcupsd is in the above list, the most likely problem is a configuration file glitch. If no

messages were printed, you should check your system log (normally /var/log/messages) where you

will find one or messages indicating the nature of the problem.

Logging Test

Once you have established that the proper processes are running, do a tail of the system log file, normally

/var/log/messages:

tail /var/log/messages

You should see output that looks similar to the following:

Dec 5 17:01:05 matou apcupsd[5917]: apcupsd 3.7.2 startup succeeded

These messages should also appear in the temporary file (/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.events) if you are

using the default configuration file. If you have installed the RPM, they will probably be in

/var/log/apcupsd.events.

apcaccess Test

This test consists of running apcaccess to see if apcupsd is properly updating its internal variables.

Please note that you must enable the apcupsd Network Information Server in your configuration file for

apcaccess to work. This is done by setting:

NETSERVER on

NISPORT 3551

in your apcupsd.conf file.

To run the apcaccess test, use the following command:

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