UPSDRVCTL(8)						      Network UPS Tools (NUT)						      UPSDRVCTL(8)

NAME

       upsdrvctl - UPS driver controller

SYNOPSIS

       upsdrvctl -h

       upsdrvctl [-t] [-v] (start | stop | shutdown | status) [ups]

DESCRIPTION

       upsdrvctl  provides  a uniform interface for controlling your UPS drivers.  You should use upsdrvctl instead of direct calls to the drivers
       whenever possible.

       When used properly, upsdrvctl lets you maintain identical startup scripts across multiple systems with different UPS configurations.

OPTIONS

       -h     Display the help message.

       -t     Enable testing mode.  This also enables verbose mode.  Testing mode makes upsdrvctl display the actions  it  would  execute  without
	      actually	doing  them.   Use  this  to test out your configuration without actually doing anything to your UPS drivers.  This may be
	      helpful when defining the 'sdorder' directive in your ups.conf(5).

       -v     Enable verbose messages.

COMMANDS

       upsdrvctl supports four commands - start, stop, shutdown and status.  They take an optional argument which is a UPS name from  ups.conf(5).
       Without that argument, they operate on every UPS that is currently configured.

       start  Start the UPS driver(s).

       stop   Stop the UPS driver(s).

       shutdown
	      Command the UPS driver(s) to run their shutdown sequence.  Drivers are stopped according to their sdorder value - see ups.conf(5).

	      WARNING: this will probably power off your computers, so don't play around with this option.  Only use it when your systems are pre-
	      pared to lose power.

       status Check the status of the UPS driver(s).

	      If every UPS that has been checked is running, then the exitcode will be 0.  If one seems to be missing, the exitcode will be 1.

BUGS

       The status checking is rudimentary, and really only looks for the presence of .pid files.  If you really want to know if your  UPS  drivers
       are alive and well, upsmon(8)'s NOCOMM notifier does a fine job.

SEE ALSO

       nutupsdrv(8), upsd(8) ups.conf(5)

   Internet resources:
       The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.exploits.org/nut/

       NUT mailing list archives and information: http://lists.exploits.org/

								  Wed Oct 16 2002						      UPSDRVCTL(8)