I'm trying to setup this script to pull UPS information from APCUPSD. I've gotten to the point where I have a graph, but only "Line voltage" shows up. This is my first attempt at a graph, so I'm sure I'm just missing something.

Here is a sample output from the check_ups.sh script when run manually:
line_volt:120.2
load_pct:0.0
b_charge:100.0
time_left:414.0
int_temp:34.6
bat_volt:27.3
line_freq:60.0

Edit: script fixed, three posts down for updated script and templates.

Aha! figures as soon as I posted this I would figure it out. line breaks in the poller script were messing it up.

The cacti graph doesn't update, even the scripts seens to works good and receive the same respons when execute it manualy:
pegasus@galactica$ /var/www/cacti/scripts/check_ups.sh xx.xx.xx.xx 3551

line_volt:232.0
load_pct:22.0
b_charge:100.0
time_left:40.0
bat_volt:26.6
cum_on_bat:10
nom_batv:24.0

Any sugestions?

Yeah, the problem was the script was making a newline for each entry, cacti didnt like that, it needs to be all on one line.

Attached is a zip with the working scripts and graph/data templates (my old graph didnt look good, and this one isn't much better, so if you make a better looking graph be sure to upload it).

Oh and credit where credit is due, the scripts came from another post on this board, I simply edited them to work correctly.

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How did you do that? I can't get any graphs, maybe there are something wrong when I creating the new host??
Do I need to change some "port option" when creating a new host?

works great, thanks for writing the script i did have to make a couple changes for it to work on my system.

i had to update the shell script to reflect where debian's apcaccess is (/sbin instead of /usr/sbin)

both the perl script and shell script had the following on the first line, i had to remove them:


thanks,
--slly

I'm getting an "XML: Hash version does not exist." error when trying to import these under cacti 0.8.6c. This is the latest version that I could find an RPM for under SuSE 9.3.

Ok, upgraded from the tarball, working fine now under 0.8.6j

im having trouble getting this to work. Im using cacti 0.8.7b on ubuntu.

i installed the script and templates as described making changes described above for debian system.

i get all the proper output from apcaccess yet my graph shows up with no data.

my poller status gives this line:

and my data source debug gives this:

when i run the chech_ups.sh script from commandline it returns this error:

anyone know whats going on? would love to get this working.

Ya'll realize I created a APCUPSD script/templates over a year ago? http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?p=112578

Help find a bug in the script!


Line 6 is:


In addition I have removed the first lines of both script

I think by removing the #!/usr/bin/perl from the second script, you are now running it with bash instead of perl. bash doesn't understand perl

Hi I see that your are monitoring perfectly tour APC PDU with Cacti and i having a lot of problems to configure it.

I have on my appliance "Infraestruxure Manager" the SNMP enabled and on my Cacti server i configured apcupsd and all his dependencies.

I want to know how i have to configure "Device" on Cacti for APC monitoring. and how i have to configure the APC appliance.

On cacti i see the APC's templates so i think that only have to configure the device on Cacti.

If you can send me screenshots of your configuration that's help me a lot.
Please contact me

Thank you so much

Im trying to monitor 3 UPS from the same Debian machine, all them connected by USB...
The point is that i am following this howto, and im in the part where you have to modify your /etc/init.d/apcupsd file to make it handle multiple configuration files. The problem is that the example in the page is for a red-hat distro, and i dont have enough knowledgements to "translate" it for making it work with my debian distro...... did anyone implement this on a debian machine? Anyone so kind to share the startup script with me?

Thanks!