apcupsd problem

pioniere · 04-28-2011, 10:41 AM

Hello, I am running CentOS 4.6 (Final) and have an APC UPS attached to the box via USB/Serial cable. I have apcupsd 3.14.08 running on the box. The daemon initially starts ok, but then after a short time (not even a minute), I start getting console messages:

Code:

Broadcast message from root (Thu Apr 28 08:31:36 2011):

Communications restored with UPS orion

These persist for a couple of minutes, then go away. Then after a brief pause, they come back. Here is what netstat -an |grep 3551 shows:

Code:

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3551                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:32912             127.0.0.1:3551              TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:32902             127.0.0.1:3551              TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:32906             127.0.0.1:3551              TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:32904             127.0.0.1:3551              TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:32910             127.0.0.1:3551              TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:32908             127.0.0.1:3551              TIME_WAIT

Occasionally I am seeing established connections:

Code:

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3551                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:32922             127.0.0.1:3551              TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:32920             127.0.0.1:3551              TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:32926             127.0.0.1:3551              ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:32924             127.0.0.1:3551              TIME_WAIT
tcp        8      0 127.0.0.1:3551              127.0.0.1:32926             ESTABLISHED

This is the only process that is running:

Code:

root      2882     1  0 08:13 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/apcupsd -f /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

Occasionally there is also a [defunct] apccontrol process as well.

The apcupsd.conf file is set with the default values, which as far as I could tell did not merit any changes.

Can anyone make any sense of this? It appears as though there is a link, that then fails. I'm not sure how to resolve this.

michaelk · 04-29-2011, 06:30 AM

Post the model number of your UPS as well as your configuration file. Are you connected to the UPS strictly using a USB cable or are you using a USB serial port adapter. If the later then your configuration file is probably not correct. If you stop apcuspd and run apctest can you query the UPS successfully?