
the following procedure:
If you have a Simple Signaling UPS (sometimes called a dumb UPS),
such as a BackUPS or a BackUPS Office,
your best bet is to run the <b>apctest</b> program. To do so,
enter the following commands:
<p class="tty">
Shutdown apcupsd if it is running.<br>
Make sure your <b>/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf</b> file
has <b>UPSTYPE backups</b> and <b>UPSCABLE simple</b><br>
cd &lt;apcupsd-source-directory&gt;<br>
make apctest<br>
./apctest
</p>
It will present you with the following output
<pre>
2001-02-07 04:08:26 apctest 1.0 3.8.1 redhat
Checking configuration ...
sharenet.type = DISABLE
cable.type = CUSTOM_SIMPLE
mode.type = BK
Setting up serial port ...
Creating serial port lock file ...
Doing prep_serial() ...
Hello, this is the apcupsd Cable Test program.
This part of apctest is for testing dumb UPSes (ones that uses signaling rather than commands.
Most tests enter a loop polling every second for 10 seconds.
</pre>
Then it will present you with the following list of choices:
<pre>
1) Test 1 - normal mode
2) Test 2 - no cable
3) Test 3 - no power
4) Test 4 - low battery (requires test 3 first)
5) Test 5 - battery exhausted
6) Test 6 - kill UPS power
7) Test 7 - run tests 1 through 5
8) Guess which is the appropriate cable
9) quit

Select test number: 
</pre>
Run tests 1, 2, and 3. Note, none of the currently supported cables
will indicate a change for test 2. You can then run test 8 to see
what cable it thinks you should be using. Finally run test 4.
<p>apctest can also be run for Smart UPSes.</p>The print out of
your testing will be written to the file <b>apctest.output</b>. If
you are unable to solve your problem, you can try posting that file
to the development mailing list, and perhaps we can help you. In this
case, please also include information on your operating system, 
which version of <b>apcupsd</b> you are using, your UPS model,
and also your <b>apcupsd.conf</b> file.
