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== Powering Amahi (Fedora 12/14) with APC Back-UPS and [http://www.networkupstools.org/index.html Network UPS Tools (NUT)] ==
The software APC BackkBack-UPS comes with does not work in Linux. Instead, you need to use NUT or apcupsd. Google will turn up evidence that both work, but NUT seems to be the preferred one.
The original instructions that this article guidance is based on came from [http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/ups/backups.html here] and [http://billauer.co.il/blog/2010/01/fedora-mustek-powermust-600-ups-nut-howto/ here]. The former, by Peter Selinger, are closest to this case, but a lot of the work he had to do is now done for you out of the box. The latter are for a different UPS, but are also fresher.
First, do this as [http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Open_Terminal_as_root root user]:
Next, you will need to configure four files in /etc/ups: ups.conf, upsd.users, hosts.conf, and upsmon.conf. They will look almost identical to Selinger's (password1 and password2 can be changed to anything):
[apc]
driver = usbhid-ups
port = auto
desc = "APC Back-UPS"
vi /etc/ups/upsd.users
[admin]
password = password1
password = password2
upsmon master
MONITOR apc@localhost "UPS on HDA"
MONITOR apc@localhost 1 monuser password2 master
MINSUPPLIES 1
NOCOMMWARNTIME 300
FINALDELAY 5
The next step is to start the UPS service:
upsdrvctl start
service ups stop
service ups start
At this point, you should see something like this in your terminal:
If you do not, it may be because upsdrvctl refuses to cooperate at first. A reboot will fix that problem. The final step is to make sure that the UPS services start when the server does. For that, the /etc/rc.local file must be edited as follows:
echo "Starting UPS driver, daemon, and monitor."
/sbin/upsdrvctl start
/usr/sbin/upsd
/usr/sbin/upsmon
