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6 apcsmart-old - Driver for American Power Conversion Smart Protocol UPS
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10 apcsmart-old -h
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12 apcsmart-old -a UPS_NAME [OPTIONS]
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15 This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the
16 apcsmart-old driver. For information about the core driver, see
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20 apcsmart-old should recognize all recent APC models that use a serial
21 protocol at 2400 bps. This is primarily the Smart-UPS, Matrix-UPS and
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24 The driver attempts to support every bell and whistle of the APC
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27 Some older hardware may only report a handful of variables. This is
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31 This driver expects to see a 940-0024C cable or a clone by default. You
32 can switch to the 940-0095B dual-mode cable support with the cable=
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41 This driver supports the following optional settings in the
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45 Configure the serial port for the APC 940-0095B dual-mode cable.
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63 "force OB" hack method for CS 350
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65 Modes 0 and 1 will power up the load when power returns. Modes 2 and 3
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68 Mode 4 exploits an oddity in the CS 350 models since they only seem to
69 support the S command, but then only when running on battery. As a
70 result, the driver will force the UPS to go on battery if necessary
71 before sending the shutdown command. This ensures that the load gets
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75 Some older APC UPS models return bogus data in the status register
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79 APC UPS models with both USB and serial ports require a power cycle
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84 Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@Intechnology.co.uk> (drawing
85 heavily on the original apcsmart driver by Russell Kroll). This driver
86 was called newapc for a time and was renamed in the 1.5 series. In
87 2.6.2 the driver was renamed to apcsmart-old, being superseded by
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91 The core driver:
92 nutupsdrv(8)
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95 The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.networkupstools.org/
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