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Desc: How to use the dummyups driver
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Auth: Bill Carlson <wcarlson@wkks.org>
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The dummyups driver is mainly for testing purposes only. It can be used to
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appear as a UPS in the following states: On Line (OL), On Battery (OB) and Low
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The driver is interactive, at startup you will be presented with a panel for
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setting the current status of the driver. If you do not see this panel on
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startup, this is a good indication you are missing Xdialog. :)
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dummyups requires Xdialog (http://xdialog.free.fr/) for drawing the panel.
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dummyups is not built by default. Change to models/ in the source after you
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have run ./configure and run "make dummyups". Move the resulting dummyups
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Usage: dummyups [portname]
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dummyups must run as root under X. It is NOT recommended to make dummyups
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setuid root, doing so is at your own risk. See man xhost and man su for ways
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to run something as root under X. Something like the following would probably
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The portname argument is tagged onto the end of the state filename, it
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defaults to "null". Which means the state file would be called dummyups-null.
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One could run several different dummyups drivers, to perhaps simulation
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multiple power supplies on different UPSes, just give a different portname to
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Sample UPS entry from ups.conf with dummyups on portname "biggy":
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Note that only the last word after the / matters for "port" settings, so
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this could be "/tmp/biggy", "/etc/biggy", or "/xyzzy/biggy".
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Sample upsmon MONITOR line:
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MONITOR bigdummy@localhost 2 duh master
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Meaning monitor bigdummy at the localhost, bigdummy is keeping 2 power
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supplies up, login in with the password "duh" and be master on the UPS.
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Make sure you reload upsd and upsmon ('<prog> -c reload' or 'kill -HUP' <pid>)
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when making changes to their configuration files!
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