I was recently running apcupsd without problem. Nevertheless I swtiched, recently, to nut [1] because it's so much better. It has excellent APC monitoring. If your APC is Smart or a Backups Pro model, it can control all the exposed functions. Even cooler, it's called nut because it's the "Network UPS Tools" kit. If you have more than one system plugged into the same UPS, the system monitoring the UPS can let other systems know they should shutdown so everything goes down cleanly. Lastly, it has a nice scheduler that send you alerts when the UPS has been on battery power for some n period of time and let you know when it's back on the mains.
Use nut. You'll be happy you did. Aaron [1] Found in ports. Online documentation at <http://www.networkupstools.org/compat/>. Thierry Lacoste wrote: > I'd like to know if it is safe to run apcupsd-3.14.0. > There are some issues regarding pthreads on OpenBSD > raised in the apcupsd-3.12.x user's guide but these issues > are not mentioned anymore in the apcupsd-3.14.x user's guide. > > Is it better to use apc-upsd from ports? > It seems to be a bit old and I could not find any documentation > on how to configure and use it. > > Any recommandations would be much appreciated. > > Regards, > Thierry.
