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<H1 >Apcupsd a daemon for controlling APC UPSes</H1>
<P><B>Apcupsd </B>can be used for power mangement and controlling most
of APC's UPS models on Unix and Windows machines.  Apcupsd works with
most of APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models
such a Back-UPS, and BackUPS-Office.  During a power failure,
<B>apcupsd</B> will inform the users about the power failure and that a
shutdown may occur.  If power is not restored, a system shutdown will
follow when the battery is exhausted, a timeout (seconds) expires, or
runtime expires based on internal APC calculations determined by power
consumption rates. Apcupsd is licensed under the GPL version 2.
<p>

<h2>Apcupsd Releases</h2>
<h3><i><u>Stable:</u></i>&nbsp;3.14.11 (31 January 2014)
[&nbsp;<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/apcupsd/files/apcupsd%20-%20Stable/3.14.11/">Source</a>&nbsp;]
<!--[&nbsp;<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/apcupsd/files/rpms%20-%20Stable/3.14.10/">RPMs</a>&nbsp;]-->
[&nbsp;<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/apcupsd/files/win-binaries%20-%20Stable/3.14.11/">Windows</a>&nbsp;]
[&nbsp;<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/apcupsd/files/osx-binaries%20-%20Stable/3.14.11/">OSX</a>&nbsp;]
</h3>
Release 3.14.11 adds MODBUS protocol support for newer APC UPSes. It also 
includes digital signatures on the Windows USB driver and the Windows installer 
package which should make installation on recent versions of Windows easier.
<p>
The MODBUS protocol gives access to advanced UPS features on newer UPSes that 
previously only supported Microlink. A firmware upgrade may be required to 
enable MODBUS support on some UPSes. 
Please see the
<a href="http://apcupsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/apcupsd/apcupsd/ReleaseNotes?pathrev=Release-3_14_11">
ReleaseNotes</a> for further details.
<p>
Apcupsd 3.14.11 is the latest stable release, containing many bug fixes and
new features over previous releases. Users of all previous
versions are encouraged to upgrade.
<p>
<h2><a href="manual/manual.html" target="_top">Online Manual</a> or a
<a href="manual/manual.pdf" target="_top">PDF Version of
the Manual</a> </h2> If you want to learn a bit more about
<b>apcupsd</b>, you can browse the
<a href="manual/manual.html" target="_top">manual online</a>. 
If you have any corrections/comments to the manual, please send them to
the apcupsd-users mailing list (see below). For bug reports and
developer contact, please see below.
If you want a pdf copy of the manual, you can find it
<a href="manual/manual.pdf" target="_top">here</a>.

<h2>Bugs and Email Support</h2>
Please don't email me directly, it is much better to address bug reports
and questions to the 
<a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/subscribe/apcupsd-users">
user's mailing list</a>, to which you must 
be subscribed, otherwise your email regrettably goes down
the bit bucket -- you can blame the spammers for that. See the
<a href="lists.html">Email Lists page</a> for links and how to subscribe.

<h2>Release Notification and User's Email List</h2>
<p>If you want to be notified by email when new releases are available, please
sign up for the apcupsd-announce mailing list. This is easily accomplished by
following the instructions at: 
<a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/subscribe/apcupsd-announce">
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/subscribe/apcupsd-announce</a>.
<p>If you would like to receive the user's email, please visit the
following site and follow the instructions:
<a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/subscribe/apcupsd-users">
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/subscribe/apcupsd-users</a>.

<h2><a href="http://matou.sibbald.com/cgi-bin/multimon.cgi" target="_top">Apcupsd Network Information</a></h2>
To see my Linux/Windows APC UPSes running with
<b>apcupsd</b> in real-time, just 
<a href="http://matou.sibbald.com/cgi-bin/multimon.cgi" target="_top">click here</a>.

<h2>Other Software for Apcupsd</h2>
David Ranch has developed some very interesting graphing support for APC
UPSes, which works with <b>apcupsd</b>.  Using <b>apcupsd's</b> logging
capabilities, David provides setup instructions and scripts to produce
high quality, daily PDF graphs of all the important UPS power conditions. 
To learn more about this, please visit <a
target="_top"
href="http://www.trinityos.com/LINUX/TrinityOS/cHTML/TrinityOS-c-36.html">
his site</a>.

<h2>APC</h2>
If you want to know more about APC products for protecting your computer,
you can find it at the <a href="http://www.apc.com">APC Home Site</a>.

<h2><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/apcupsd">
Apcupsd Hosted on Source Forge</a></h2>
We have moved the release of source and binaries (downloads) to Source
Forge for several reasons: 1.  Lack of manpower to maintain several
sites, 2.  The excellent Open Software Development services offered by
Source Forge.  In addition to hosting all our new releases, the Source
Forge site has a <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=54413">
CVS repository</a> where you can find the very latest development
software.  Please visit it and become familiar with how it works.
<p>
If you wish to get a copy of the latest CVS code, you can do so
by doing:
<p>
<pre>  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@apcupsd.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/apcupsd login</pre>
(Press ENTER when prompted for a password)
<pre>  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@apcupsd.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/apcupsd co apcupsd</pre>
<p>
The above will put a copy of the current CVS into the directory named apcupsd 
(better make sure it does not exist before issuing the command).
<p>
Thereafter to get the latest code, simply:
<pre>
  cd apcupsd
  cvs -z3 update -Pd
</pre>
