NAME

upsagent - enables remote control over a local UPS on a serial device

SYNOPSIS

upsagent [ -h, --help ] [ -M, --man ] [ -V, --version ] [ -d, --debug-level [debuglevel] ] [ -L, --logfile [logfile] ] [ -P, --port [port] ] [ -p, --pidfile pidfile ] [device-name]

DESCRIPTION

upsagent enables remote control over a local UPS on a serial device specified by the optional device-name parameter via TCP/IP using port port. If device-name is omitted, /dev/ttyS0, i.e. the COM1 port, is used per default unless overriden by the environment variable UPS_PORT. If the TCP/IP port port is not specified port 9050 is used unless overriden by the environment variable UPS_TCPPORT.

The program listens on port for incoming requests and sends the data received to the local UPS. The answer of the UPS is sent back.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Displays a short usage help message and exits without errors.

-M, --man

Displays the embedded pod documentation of upsagent (this screen) using pod2man, groff and less as pager; it exits without errors.

-V, --version

Displays version information and exits without errors.

-d, --debug-level [debuglevel]

Sets the integer debug level debuglevel. If the debug level is not specified a default of 1 is assumed. A higher debug level will increase the verbosity.

-L, --logfile logfile

Sets the logfile to logfile. If not specified, the default log file /var/run/upsagent.log will be used.

-p, --pidfile pidfile

Sets the PID file to pidfile. If not specified, the default PID file /var/run/upsagent.pid will be used.

-P, --port port

Sets the TCP/IP port port the programs waits for incoming requests to the local UPS. If not specified, the default port 9050 is used unless overriden by the environment variable UPS_TCPPORT.

EXAMPLES

upsagent

Listens on TCP/IP port 9050 for incoming requests and sends them to the local UPS on COM1. The response of the UPS is sent back.

upsagent -p 1200 /dev/ttyS1

Listens on TCP/IP port 1200 for incoming requests and sends them to the local UPS on COM2. The response of the UPS is sent back.

SEE ALSO

groff(1), less(1), pod2man(1), upsadm(1), upsstat(1), upswatch(1), Getopt::Long(3pm), IO::Select(3pm), IO::Socket::INET(3pm), Net::hostent(3pm), Hardware::UPS::Perl::Connection(3pm), Hardware::UPS::Perl::Connection::Net(3pm), Hardware::UPS::Perl::Connection::Serial(3pm), Hardware::UPS::Perl::Constants(3pm), Hardware::UPS::Perl::Driver(3pm), Hardware::UPS::Perl::Driver::Megatec(3pm), Hardware::UPS::Perl::General(3pm), Hardware::UPS::Perl::Logging(3pm), Hardware::UPS::Perl::PID(3pm), Hardware::UPS::Perl::Utils(3pm)

AUTHOR

Christian Reile, Christian.Reile@t-online.de