UPSDRVCTL(8) Network UPS Tools (NUT) UPSDRVCTL(8)NAMEupsdrvctl - UPS driver controller
SYNOPSISupsdrvctl-h
upsdrvctl [-t] [-v] (start | stop | shutdown | status)
[ups]
DESCRIPTIONupsdrvctl provides a uniform interface for controlling
your UPS drivers. You should use upsdrvctl instead of
direct calls to the drivers whenever possible.
When used properly, upsdrvctl lets you maintain identical
startup scripts across multiple systems with different UPS
configurations.
OPTIONS-h Display the help message.
-t Enable testing mode. This also enables verbose
mode. Testing mode makes upsdrvctl display the
actions it would execute without actually doing
them. Use this to test out your configuration
without actually doing anything to your UPS
drivers. This may be helpful when defining the
'sdorder' directive in your ups.conf(5).
-v Enable verbose messages.
COMMANDSupsdrvctl supports four commands - start, stop, shutdown
and status. They take an optional argument which is a UPS
name from ups.conf(5). Without that argument, they oper-
ate on every UPS that is currently configured.
start Start the UPS driver(s).
stop Stop the UPS driver(s).
shutdown
Command the UPS driver(s) to run their shutdown
sequence. Drivers are stopped according to their
sdorder value - see ups.conf(5).
WARNING: this will probably power off your comput-
ers, so don't play around with this option. Only
use it when your systems are prepared to lose
power.
status Check the status of the UPS driver(s).
If every UPS that has been checked is running, then
the exitcode will be 0. If one seems to be miss-
ing, the exitcode will be 1.
BUGS
The status checking is rudimentary, and really only looks
for the presence of .pid files. If you really want to
know if your UPS drivers are alive and well, upsmon(8)'s
NOCOMM notifier does a fine job.
SEE ALSOnutupsdrv(8), upsd(8)ups.conf(5)
Internet resources:
The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page:
http://www.exploits.org/nut/
NUT mailing list archives and information:
http://lists.exploits.org/
Wed Oct 16 2002 UPSDRVCTL(8)
