UPSDRVCTL(8)

NAME
upsdrvctl - UPS driver controller

SYNOPSIS
upsdrvctl -h upsdrvctl [-t] [-v] (start | stop | shutdown | status) [ups]

DESCRIPTION
upsdrvctl 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.

COMMANDS
upsdrvctl 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 operate 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 computers, 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 missing, 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 ALSO
nutupsdrv(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/