Apcupsd is a powerful daemon that can be used to manage APC UPS, add epel repositories and run: $ yum install apcupsd To configure apcupsd edit the following file: cat /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf" --- ## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ## # # for apcupsd release 3.14.14 (31 May 2016) - redhat # # "apcupsd" POSIX config file # # Note that the apcupsd daemon must be restarted in order for changes to # this configuration file to become active. …

I have got my hands on an APC UPS and some HP gen8 server, installed apcupsd on CentOS 7, connected the USB cable and everything was working fine except for this very annoying issue I had: * power goes down (pull the UPS power cord). after some minutes the UPS battery threshold is triggered and the server shutdown procedure is launched by apcupsd. power goes back up (plug in the power cord) while the server is already shutting down but the shutdown sequence is not yet completed. …