Updated: APCUPSD Script/Template

[Karride]

I'm trying to setup this script to pull UPS information from APCUPSD. I've gotten to the point where I have a graph, but only "Line voltage" shows up. This is my first attempt at a graph, so I'm sure I'm just missing something.

Here is a sample output from the check_ups.sh script when run manually:
line_volt:120.2
load_pct:0.0
b_charge:100.0
time_left:414.0
int_temp:34.6
bat_volt:27.3
line_freq:60.0

Edit: script fixed, three posts down for updated script and templates.

[Karride]

Aha! figures as soon as I posted this I would figure it out. line breaks in the poller script were messing it up.

[diernanet]

The cacti graph doesn't update, even the scripts seens to works good and receive the same respons when execute it manualy:
pegasus@galactica$ /var/www/cacti/scripts/check_ups.sh xx.xx.xx.xx 3551

line_volt:232.0
load_pct:22.0
b_charge:100.0
time_left:40.0
bat_volt:26.6
cum_on_bat:10
nom_batv:24.0

Any sugestions?

[Karride]

Yeah, the problem was the script was making a newline for each entry, cacti didnt like that, it needs to be all on one line.

Attached is a zip with the working scripts and graph/data templates (my old graph didnt look good, and this one isn't much better, so if you make a better looking graph be sure to upload it).

Oh and credit where credit is due, the scripts came from another post on this board, I simply edited them to work correctly.

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[lanyao]

Yeah, the problem was the script was making a newline for each entry, cacti didnt like that, it needs to be all on one line.

Attached is a zip with the working scripts and graph/data templates (my old graph didnt look good, and this one isn't much better, so if you make a better looking graph be sure to upload it).

Oh and credit where credit is due, the scripts came from another post on this board, I simply edited them to work correctly.

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How did you do that? I can't get any graphs, maybe there are something wrong when I creating the new host??
Do I need to change some "port option" when creating a new host?

[sllywhtboy]

works great, thanks for writing the script i did have to make a couple changes for it to work on my system.

i had to update the shell script to reflect where debian's apcaccess is (/sbin instead of /usr/sbin)

both the perl script and shell script had the following on the first line, i had to remove them:

Content-Disposition: Attachment

thanks,
--slly

[jantman]

I'm getting an "XML: Hash version does not exist." error when trying to import these under cacti 0.8.6c. This is the latest version that I could find an RPM for under SuSE 9.3.

[jantman]

Ok, upgraded from the tarball, working fine now under 0.8.6j

[westcoastirl]

im having trouble getting this to work. Im using cacti 0.8.7b on ubuntu.

i installed the script and templates as described making changes described above for debian system.

i get all the proper output from apcaccess yet my graph shows up with no data.

my poller status gives this line:

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10/20/2008 10:10:01 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] DS[27] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result: 

and my data source debug gives this:

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/usr/bin/rrdtool create \
/var/lib/cacti/rra/localhost_line_freq_27.rrd \
--step 300  \
DS:line_freq:GAUGE:600:0:100 \
DS:bat_volt:GAUGE:600:0:100 \
DS:b_charge:GAUGE:600:0:100 \
DS:time_left:GAUGE:600:0:500 \
DS:line_volt:GAUGE:600:0:220 \
DS:int_temp:GAUGE:600:0:200 \
DS:load_pct:GAUGE:600:0:100 \
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:500 \
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:600 \
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700 \
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775 \
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797 \
RRA:MAX:0.5:1:500 \
RRA:MAX:0.5:1:600 \
RRA:MAX:0.5:6:700 \
RRA:MAX:0.5:24:775 \
RRA:MAX:0.5:288:797 \

when i run the chech_ups.sh script from commandline it returns this error:

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/usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/apcupsd.pl: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
/usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/apcupsd.pl: line 6: `while(<STDIN>) { '

anyone know whats going on? would love to get this working.

[BSOD2600]

Ya'll realize I created a APCUPSD script/templates over a year ago? http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?p=112578

[tamias]

Help find a bug in the script!

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$ opt/local/share/cacti/scripts/check_ups.sh
/opt/local/share/cacti/scripts/apcupsd.pl: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
/opt/local/share/cacti/scripts/apcupsd.pl: line 6: `while(<STDIN>) { '

Line 6 is:

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while(<STDIN>) { 

In addition I have removed the first lines of both script

[Howie]

Help find a bug in the script!

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$ opt/local/share/cacti/scripts/check_ups.sh
/opt/local/share/cacti/scripts/apcupsd.pl: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
/opt/local/share/cacti/scripts/apcupsd.pl: line 6: `while(<STDIN>) { '

Line 6 is:

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while(<STDIN>) { 

In addition I have removed the first lines of both script

I think by removing the #!/usr/bin/perl from the second script, you are now running it with bash instead of perl. bash doesn't understand perl

[borja.arranz]

Hi I see that your are monitoring perfectly tour APC PDU with Cacti and i having a lot of problems to configure it.

I have on my appliance "Infraestruxure Manager" the SNMP enabled and on my Cacti server i configured apcupsd and all his dependencies.

I want to know how i have to configure "Device" on Cacti for APC monitoring. and how i have to configure the APC appliance.

On cacti i see the APC's templates so i think that only have to configure the device on Cacti.

If you can send me screenshots of your configuration that's help me a lot.
Please contact me

Thank you so much

Yeah, the problem was the script was making a newline for each entry, cacti didnt like that, it needs to be all on one line.

Attached is a zip with the working scripts and graph/data templates (my old graph didnt look good, and this one isn't much better, so if you make a better looking graph be sure to upload it).

Oh and credit where credit is due, the scripts came from another post on this board, I simply edited them to work correctly.

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[Xi0N]

Im trying to monitor 3 UPS from the same Debian machine, all them connected by USB...
The point is that i am following this howto, and im in the part where you have to modify your /etc/init.d/apcupsd file to make it handle multiple configuration files. The problem is that the example in the page is for a red-hat distro, and i dont have enough knowledgements to "translate" it for making it work with my debian distro...... did anyone implement this on a debian machine? Anyone so kind to share the startup script with me?

Thanks!