[CentOS] semi-OT:apcupsd

On 11/17/2017 09:46 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> I started looking at that last year... and could not find, in its
> documentation, how to set up almost all of what we have: APC rackmount
> UPSes with APC's weired RJ-45-toUSB cable. APCUPSd made that very easy,
> and was, in fact, the default configuration.


A USB-attached UPS like yours should be straightforward in NUT.

Add to /etc/ups/ups.conf:

    [apc]
             driver = usbhid-ups
             port = auto

Set MODE=standalone in /etc/ups/nut.conf.

Set up the monitoring user according to the docs.

Done.