Installing APC software onto my Trixbox
Submitted by Marsoft on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 2:58am.
Hi Guys,
I have a UPS system that my trixbox can see via the network (as the ups has a network interface management card).
The install instructions are available here from the APC site...
I cannot seem to get this to install properly. Has anyone tried to install something like this on there box? I have managed to run both files but not much as installed from looking in the /opt/ directory...
[root@asterisk1 ~]# chmod a+x /root/pbe_agent_linux_jvm.bin
[root@asterisk1 ~]# rpm -i /root/pbeagent-xxx.i386.rpm
Any ideas?
Thanks
 
Well i shall reply to my own
Tue, 08/14/2007 - 1:09am
Well i shall reply to my own message. In the end i couldnt get the apc software to install because it requires a GUI to run. So i went and downloaded and configured this peice of software instead...
This is what i did...
1) Logon to the trixbox machine as root.
2) Run the following command to install some required files...
yum install compat-libstdc++-33
3) Go to http://www.apcupsd.com/ and get the URL for the RPM package for EL3.
I think this is right, however the redhat one may work. Find a direct download
for the rpm package by trying to download the file and getting the link.
Eg. http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.1...
4) Now get the file by doing the following command...
WGET http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.1...
5) Now mark the file as executable by doing the following...
chmod +x apcupsd-3.14.1-1.el3.i386.rpm
6) Now install the package...
rpm -ivh apcupsd-3.14.1-1.el3.i386.rpm
7) Now edit the config file...
nano /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf
8) Make sure the settings are set like...
UPSCABLE ether
UPSTYPE pcnet
DEVICE 192.168.0.9:apc:admin user phrase
9) Start the service by running the following...
/etc/rc.d/init.d/apcupsd start
10) Check the service is online with the following...
/etc/rc.d/init.d/apcupsd status
 
missing dependencies
Mon, 02/04/2008 - 12:54pm
I'm following your instructions and trying install latest apcupsd-3.14.3-1.el3.i386.rpm
It says that libnetsnmp.so.5 is needed. Any idea where can I get it?
Thanks!
 
same here
anyone know what
Tue, 02/05/2008 - 8:23pm
same here
anyone know what to do?
 
I installed successfully from the source
Thu, 02/07/2008 - 1:59pm
here is how I did it (see my message on that post):
http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/help/power-failure-r...
 
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2007-07-27