Date:  Feb 17  2014

How this package was built:

1) Installed Centos 3.9 and all development tools from the Centos 3.9
install CDs under Virtualbox

2) Pulled latest apcupsd from svn repository

3) ./configure followed by make

4) make install, then created oem.tgz file by doing the following:

cp /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf.new
modify apcupsd.conf to remove serial entry

cd /root
mkdir oem
cd oem
mkdir sbin
mv /sbin/apcupsd sbin
mv /sbin/apctest sbin
mv /sbin/apcaccess sbin
mv /sbin/smtp sbin
mkdir etc
mv /etc/apcupsd etc
cd etc
mkdir rc.local.d
cd rc.local.d
vi S70apcupsd.sh

#!/bin/sh

apcupsd=/usr/sbin/apcupsd

echo "***************"
echo "starting APCUPSD"
echo "***************"
$apcupsd

chmod a+x S70apcupsd.sh

cd /root/oem

 tar cvf - * | gzip -9 > ../oem.tgz
(this creates the new oem.tgz)

copy the new oem.tgz file to the website and rename it.


How to install:


To install the VMWare ESXi client on ESXI 4.1 (and it may work on 5.0, but not 5.1 or later) do the following:

First, the instructions are different for a plain vanilla ESXi 4.11 vs a Dell or HP release of ESXi.

The reason is that those companies add software that talks to their hardware, into their customized
version of ESXi.  So an oem.tgz file will already exist.  You DO NOT want to overwrite that!  Instead
you want to merge it with your oem.tgz

You will need to modify the apcupsd.conf file before installing it.  Use an editor on a Unix/Linux box
so that the unix textfile is preserved.  We will call that box the staging system.

You will need the tech support shell running on the ESXi system.

Download oem.tgz.apcupsd.vmware411 to the staging system, rename to oem.tgz

extract and modify by doing the following:

mkdir oem
cd oem
tar xvf ../oem.tgz
cd ..
ren oem.tgz oem.tgz.bak (to protect from overwrite)
cd oem/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

add monitor statement for your UPS to  apcupsd

cd ../../

Recreate the oem.tgz file 

 tar cvf - * | gzip -9 > ../oem.tgz

Now you have your oem.tgz file configured for your ESXi system.  You can skip ahead to install this on a
vanilla ESXi system without an existing oem.tgz or to merge it with an existing oem.tgz, do the following:

ssh to esxi server 

cd bootbank

at esxi command line:

scp oem.tgz yourusername@172.16.1.42:oem.tgz  (assuming 172.16.1.42 is the staging system)

This will overwrite the oem.tgz file you just created, on the staging system

Now go back to the staging system.  You should have the oem.tgz file from the ESXi system,
and a directory named oem that contains the contents of the oem.tgz file that had apcupsd in it and
that you modified.

cd oem
tar xvf ../oem.tgz
(this merges the existing oem with the apcupsd one.  If the existing oem.tgz is empty
then don't merge them)

 tar cvf - * | gzip -9 > ../oem.tgz
(this creates the new oem.tgz)

on esxi do:
cd bootbank
 scp yourusername@172.16.1.42:oem.tgz oem.tgz
cd ..

 tar tzvf /bootbank/oem.tgz
(this makes sure it's OK)

Logout of the esxi system

Go into vsphere client and shutdown the guests then restart the ESXi server

SSH back into ESXi and

~ # ps | grep apcupsd

to be sure it's running.

NOTE:  This only shuts down esxi gracefully.  If the guests do not have vmware client
running on them they won't be gracefully shut down.  So run apcupsd on any guests without
vmware tools,  too.