You may also consider some additional security by only listening for connections on the localhost for monitoring and incoming events (assuming you have only one UPS directly connected). In this instance set
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NISIP 127.0.0.1
Now make sure ''Nut'' isn't running and start the service
Now make sure ''Nut'' isn't running and start the service
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/etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S38apcupsd start
/etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S38apcupsd start
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To check its running and view status information
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To check its running and view status information (you may need to wait 30 seconds to ensure initialisation and communications have completed)
/etc/init.d/apcupsd status
/etc/init.d/apcupsd status
{{Note box| If you are using ''UPSCABLE usb'' and ''UPSTYPE usb'', and you get a status messages such as
{{Note box| If you are using ''UPSCABLE usb'' and ''UPSTYPE usb'', and you get a status messages such as