This version adds support for the MODBUS protocol operating over a USB interface. Thanks are due to APC for supporting this development work. Other less visible changes include a digital signature on the Mac OS X install package for compatibility with systems using Gate Keeper as well as many bug fixes and cleanups to the code base. APC UPS 1500VA Smart-UPS with SmartConnect, Pure Sinewave UPS Battery Backup, Line Interactive, 120V Uninterruptible Power Supply (SMC1500C), Black 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 $352.31. A CyberPower UPS system and Apple's Mac Energy Saver software can be set up to safely and securely shut down a Mac during a power event without using PowerPanel software. However, Apple's Energy Saver will not provide the Mac user with UPS statistics. PowerPanel Personal Edition for Mac is compatible with Mac OS X 10.11 and higher. Free American Power Conversion Mac/OS X 10.4 PPC Version. We have an APC SMART-UPS 2200 RM XL 3U backup battery with a serial port (NO USB). Currently their is no software for APC products. Apcupsd is a program for monitoring UPSes and performing a graceful computer shutdown in the event of a power failure. It runs on Linux, Mac OS/X, Win32, BSD, Solaris, and other OSes.
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Activation key traktor pro 2.6.3. Hm, I've been dreading the battery and power failure beeps with my new APC UPSs. But I don't think the consumer models, I have BackUps LS and CS, have the option to control the alert sounds. Previous models I had were BackUps Pros, and I used the Windoze Powerchute in virtualization to turn off the sounds. I did not see any alert sound options for the CS and LS.
A warning about the installer (I like to poke inside strange new installers, especially from open source): it installs things in system locations, /sbin, /etc & /usr/share, when they should be installed in /usr/local/*. Stuff in system locations has the potential to be removed by Apple updaters, and it's good to have 3rd-party software outside the system, especially for ease of uninstalling.
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Why bother? The built-in software (Energy Saver) is good enough.
Never needed anything beyond that. If you wanted, I'm sure AppleScript and/or Automator could be added for more needs.
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> Why bother?
Maybe for the reason described in the first paragraph of colinng's hint? I've used apcupsd precisely for that purpose. > The built-in software (Energy Saver) is good enough. Never needed anything beyond that. Good (enough) for you. > If you wanted, I'm sure AppleScript and/or Automator could be added for more needs. Do you a specific method to suggest for disabling APC UPS beeps instead of simply a think-you-know-better response? Thanks for writing up this hint, colinng. Hopefully a few folks will appreciate it.
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> Thanks for writing up this hint, colinng. Hopefully a few folks will appreciate it.
D'oh! I just accidentally gave it a 1- instead of 5-star vote… sorry. Apc Smart Ups Software Mac Os X
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Does the built-in monitor more than one UPS? Does it send email notifications?
Use a third-party APC UPS management tool for more control
What a strange comment. How do i download security for android. Clearly there is value in silencing the beeping noise- I'm going to have mine mute during the night.
Use a third-party APC UPS management tool for more control
I'm going to have mine mute during the night.Minimally, I think that would require a script to interact with apctest to enable/disable beeping using the '6) View/Change alarm behavior' item (shown in the list thwaite posted) or similar. Then cron (for instance) could be used to run that script, with an enable or disable option, at desired intervals. Setting BEEPSTATE to 'N' (or other values) in apcupsd.conf doesn't apparent to have any effect on the alarm, at least not that I could determine with some brief testing this morning. I always realize there's a power outage when I'm on/near my home systems and awake to possibly take action. Plus now there's less intrusive Growl notification. And I normally don't want/need to care about outages while asleep. So, I used apctest to change the alarm behavior to unconditionally never beep since there's no reason for it in this context.
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This is a useful utility, and the author’s reasons are good: APC software doesn’t give full control even for beeps, much less for network notifications (tho I don’t use these). Don’t expect AppleScript or Automator would expand it.
More usefully, I’ll report: * the utility works fine on my “ICBM” (heh), a late ‘09 iMac. I finally got a UPS just for it, APC’s BE750G and was annoyed by APC’s limited controls, tho happy that OSX itself does the basic controls nicely (aside: regret that I read the macintouch writer Robert Mohn’s recommendation for iDowell’s iBox and iPack UPS's only later, tho they cost at least twice as much: macintouch.com/reviews/idowell ) * the installer for apcusd is simple, but doesn’t warn that a reboot will be required to complete the install. It does open TextEdit to display two windows, one with the apcupsd.conf file, the other with a notice that you have to edit this configuration file for your specific UPS and should do this before agreeing to the installer's request to reboot. You might be able to skip this step but should read through the config file now to ensure its default settings match your situation. And you’ll need to later edit this .conf file if you want to add network reporting, which can’t be set up using only the simple CLI menu. * This config file is at /private/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf. But its permissions are read-only so you can't save changes using TextEdit, which doesn't allow superuser override. Solution: use the Terminal (which you'll have to use anyway for their CLI menu). Navigate to the directory and sudo-launch your favorite CLI text editor (vim, pico, etc). Having a little Unix knowledge, I lived dangerously and edited various parameters as suggested by their comments. Recall that lines prefaced by # are comments, often useful example settings; but for functional parameter specifications you must remove the #. * After rebooting, the CLI menu allows for the following choices: 1) Test kill UPS power 2) Perform self-test 3) Read last self-test result 4) View/Change battery date 5) View manufacturing date 6) View/Change alarm behavior 7) View/Change sensitivity 8) View/Change low transfer voltage 9) View/Change high transfer voltage 10) Perform battery calibration 11) Test alarm 12) View/Change self-test interval Q) Quit I’ve not yet tried #1 or #10, but the others work as expected.
Use a third-party APC UPS management tool for more control
Another great feature of apcupsd is that you can install it on more than one machine, and each can communicate with the other. If you have several machines that are powered from the same battery, you can set up apcupsd to shut all of the machines down gracefully before the battery runs out. You can also do lots of other cool things, limited only by your imagination.
For instance, I have two Mac minis in my server closet, and when power goes out and the battery is almost out of juice, on each machine, apcupsd quits all user-space applications (with an Applescript run through the 'osascript' command-line tool, schedules a 'wakeorpoweron' event with the power manager so the machine will reboot once power is restored, and then shuts the system down.
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The software also works fine with Intel-based Macs.
Use a third-party APC UPS management tool for more control
APC make good UPSs but their Mac software stinks (to put it mildly).
While their wilful neglect of Macs in terms of software provision might have been justified the many years ago when the Mac market was in serious decline, the massive increase in Mac share in more recent years has led other more sensible companies to resume providing decent Mac support. Even Microsoft have improved their Mac support :) People might also be interested in the open-source NUTS project (Network Ups ToolS), see http://www.networkupstools.org/ and http://boxster.ghz.cc/projects/nut/wiki/NutOnMacOSX this will work with other makes as well as APC.
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Not working in 10.6.2 on an Intel 2.66Ghz 8-core.
I ran 'sudo /Library/StartupItems/apcupsd/apcupsd stop' I still get this: 2010-03-19 04:28:11 apctest 3.14.8 (16 January 2010) darwin Checking configuration .. Attached to driver: usb sharenet.type = DISABLE cable.type = USB_CABLE You are using a USB cable type, so I'm entering USB test mode mode.type = USB_UPS Setting up the port .. apctest FATAL ERROR in generic-usb.c at line 636 Cannot find UPS device -- For a link to detailed USB trouble shooting information, please see <http://www.apcupsd.com/support.html>. apctest error termination completed Any ideas?
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- Was there any output from running:
sudo /Library/StartupItems/apcupsd/apcupsd stop If successful, it should be: Shutting down UPS monitoring - Try running this: ps acx | grep apcupsd No output if apcupsd isn't running. Otherwise, it'll look similar to: 105 ?? Ss 1:10.01 apcupsd What to suggest next depends on the results.
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Are you running your intel chip with OSX's 64-bit kernel? I get your error msg with 64bit though it works fine for me with 32-bit. Hmph.
My system log shows this during the boot: Mar 19 12:15:04 RG-iMac com.apple.SystemStarter[47]: Starting UPS monitoring Mar 19 12:15:04 RG-iMac apcupsd[96]: Valid lock file for pid=86, but not ours pid=96 Mar 19 12:15:05 RG-iMac configd[15]: network configuration changed. Mar 19 12:15:05 RG-iMac apcupsd[97]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in generic-usb.c at line 636.. Mar 19 12:15:05 RG-iMac apcupsd[97]: Valid lock file for pid=86, but not ours pid=97 Mar 19 12:15:05 RG-iMac apcupsd[97]: apcupsd error shutdown completed I've not time to follow up on this just now.
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Yep, running in 64-bit..
Ah well :-)
Since I didn't see it mentioned in the other posts, I thought I'd add that the apcupsd installer places an application--apcupsd.app--in the /Applications folder.
When launched, no dock icon or interface window will open. Instead, your only indication that it is running is the appearance in the menubar of a generic UPS icon. Should a connection failure occur, the icon will acquire a superimposed red '?', and hovering the mouse over the icon will reveal the tooltip 'NETWORK ERROR'. Clicking on the icon reveals the available interface options. The GUI's available functions are pretty much limited to status and event monitoring, and provide no equivalent for issuing the CLI commands. It is handy, though, in that it provides the ability, via the preferences settings, to add additional monitors for multiple networked devices, and to turn Growl notifications on and off for them. Just in case someone else is having the same difficulties I encountered, take a look at your UPS cases. The battery backup I couldn't get apcupsd to find--among the several it did find--was labeled 'Belkin.' D'Oh! <forehead slap>
The NUTS software I referred to in a previous comment, does support various Belkin models as well as APC models (and others).
See http://www.networkupstools.org/compat/stable.html
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My APC UPS beeps whenever the power fails.Tech Web, If this happens at night, the beep is loud enough to wake people. The beep can be disabled by software in Windows,Cell Phones, but not in the Mac version of PowerChute Personal Edition. The Mac version provides features that Mac OS X already provides: shutdown timers for any UPS connected via USB.Desktop PCs
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I don't think this utility is ready for primetime. I installed it and decided to uninstall it. Dragged it to the trash, found the startup item, dragged that to the trash, emptied the trash, and rebooted. Now my UPS no longer shows up in Energy Saver under System Preferences!
It says in the documentation that a dummy kernel extension is installed to prevent OS X from recognizing the UPS, but darned if I can find it. Microsoft 365 mac availability. Help, please!
Use a third-party APC UPS management tool for more control
Just had the same problem. You need to go to terminal and run sudo /sbin/apcupsd-uninstall. This will get rid of all the related code. Reboot and your APC should show up in energy saver again.
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The Smart-UPS is a series of enterprise-level uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) made by American Power Conversion (APC).[1] Most of the units have a SmartSlot (with the exception of SC and SMC series) which accepts an optional interface card providing features ranging from network connectivity to temperature and humidity monitoring.[2] With the exception of RT and SRT series, Smart-UPS units are line-interactive UPS systems, only running their inverters when the grid power is unavailable.
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Internals of a rack-mountable Smart-UPS 2200XL.
An oscillogram showing a true sine-wave inverter output of a Smart-UPS SMT1500I.
There are a few different variations in the Smart-UPS lineup.
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AP9606, an early SmartSlot Web/SNMP Management Card
As a way to provide UPS management, monitoring and automatic shutdown of attached equipment, all Smart-UPS models include at least one serial data interface (RS-232 or USB), while most models also have at least one SmartSlot expansion port, with the larger (and in many cases older) Smart-UPS models supporting two SmartSlots. Availability of more SmartSlots in a single Smart-UPS unit can be achieved via expansion modules such as the AP9600 and AP9604 models.[6][7] Installing an add-on card into a SmartSlot will provide the UPS with additional features, capable beyond the default serial data interface.
Early SmartSlot cards, such as the AP9605, provide SNMP functionality and Telnet access.[8] The AP9606 and later cards add a web interface that can be used to configure and administer the UPS, as well as email-based alerting. The AP9617 and newer cards add 10/100Base-T connectivity, Secure HTTP, Secure Shell (SSH), RADIUS, SNMP Version 3, PCNS and syslog functionalities.[9] The AP9612, AP9618, AP9619 and AP9631 models provide environmental monitoring when used together with APC temperature/humidity probes.[10][11][12] The AP9618 model also provides out-of-band management via a modem connection in case the 10/100 Ethernet connection is down.
SmartSlot cards remain powered by the battery even when the UPS is switched off, allowing the UPS to be remotely cold-started even in a power loss situation (presuming the network infrastructure is still powered up and functioning). The cards will also continue to work for a short while after the UPS has been switched off either manually or due to a low battery condition.[citation needed]
Beginning with the 2009 release of the SMT models (and later SMX and SURTD models), the old RS-232 data interface (a serial port with DB-9 connector) has been replaced with a 10-pin RJ50 socket and an RJ50-to-DB-9 cable connecting to the protected computer's serial port (together with a standard USB interface[13]). Also, SmartSlot interface has been electrically modified in a backward-incompatible way and appropriately keyed mechanically. As stated by APC, 'the new connection arrangement denotes the new signalling systems.'[citation needed] These new serial and SmartSlot interfaces use the new Microlink signalling protocol which, unlike the previous APC protocol UPSLINK, as of April 2015 has not been publicly documented. However, using the new AP9620 interface card, users are able to add support for the previous signalling protocol to the newer SMT and SMX models. Addition of this card makes the current models backwards compatible with older software built for the older Smart-UPS series.
As of August 2013, an additional option has been made available in form of new firmware for certain SMT and SURTD models, adding publicly documented Modbus signalling capability to the proprietary Microlink protocol, allowing third-party developers to support UPS signalling and control on the newer Smart-UPS series.[14][15]
SmartSlot card models[edit]
An AP9617 SmartSlot Network Management Card sitting on top of a Smart-UPS SMT1500I, showing the differences in slot keying
Download adobe after effects cs5 for mac. In late 2009, with the release of the SMT and SMX product lines, SmartSlot was migrated to a new communications platform utilizing the APC Microlink protocol. Both electrical and mechanical (slot keying) properties of the new SmartSlot make older SmartSlot cards incompatible with current Smart-UPS models.[16] For example, current (as of April 2015) Smart-UPS model SMT1500 is compatible only with AP9613, AP9620, AP9630 and AP9631 SmartSlot cards.[17]
This new card/slot design is referred-to as 'Network Management Card 2' or NMC2. However, most NMC2 cards (including AP9613, AP9630 and AP9631) are backward compatible with older Smart-UPS models.[18]
In 2019, APC released Network Management Card 3 or NMC3 (AP9640/AP9641), superseding NMC2 cards. NMC 3 offers enhanced security (Security chip onboard), faster communication (1000BASE/T) and increased space for data and event logs.[19]
AP9630 SmartSlot Network Management Card 2 (NMC2): top side of the PCB, bottom side of the PCB, and card's front panel that contains Ethernet and serial console ports (from top to bottom)
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