How to Start PowerChute plus

The UPS Monitoring Module, upsd, starts automatically when you boot the computer on which PowerChute plus is installed.

The User Interface Module can be displayed in two different modes: Character-based and X-Window-based. The latter is a graphical user interface, allowing you to use a mouse. APC recommends using the X-Window-based where possible.

X-Window/Character Displays on UNIX Platforms informs you which mode can be used with different UNIX platforms.

To use the User Interface Module - character-based or X-Window-based - to monitor a UPS, do the following:

  1. Log into your system as the root user.

  2. Change to the PowerChute plus installation directory.

  3. For Character-Based UNIX
    For X-Window-Based UNIX
    Type powerchute and press Enter Type xpowerchute and press Enter

    The "Monitor Server" dialog box identifies the servers you can access. You can monitor a server's UPS only if the server is running a PowerChute plus back-end, a UPS Monitoring Module, and it connects directly to your system's subnetwork.

  4. Select a listed server to open the PowerChute plus main screen for that server's UPS, and press Enter.

  5. At the "Password" dialog box, type the password for the pwrchute user account, and click OK. (The person who installed PowerChute plus created the pwrchute user account and assigned the password.)

See PowerChute plus Main Screen for a description of the main screen.