PowerPanel® for Linux Installation Guide User’s Manual For PowerPanel Business Edition Debian Software Package Rev. 1.5.11 2009/09/03 Rev.
Introduction The PowerPanel for Linux software is primary to help system to monitor UPS, which has USB or serial port. The pwrstatd program will run as a daemon process, it startups since system is booting. The pwrstatd communicates with UPS and help system to do graceful shutdown while the power events are aware. The other program called pwrstat, which helps user to get status of the UPS and settings of the pwrstatd daemon. It also allows user to configure the UPS and pwrstatd daemon.
The file describe as below: y LICENSE, PowerPanel for Linux software license agreement. y README, information about this version of release. y install-guide, for this document. y user-manual, to instruct how to use this software. y deploy-guide, to instruct how software should be deployed. You may need this guide if you meet trouble at installation. 2. To ensure UPS is working well, you can use pwrstat -status command to check its status. Please in terminal typing as: pwrstat -status 3.