Event Text, Popup Texts, and Variables in the .ini File

Event texts are the messages that PowerChute plus logs in the event log when events occur. Some events have only one text; others have more. For example, the UPS Self-Test Passed event has four associated event texts:

UPS self-test passed
Scheduled UPS self-test passed
User-initiated UPS self-test passed
Self-test at UPS passed
In the example, the specific event text tells you what type of self-test generated the event

Popup texts are notification messages sent to specified users. To use non-default messages, see Text Used in Notification Messages.

The PowerChute plus initialization file (powerchute.ini) defines event texts and popup texts and associates them with events. Some event texts and popup texts use variables, which are replaced by values when the text is logged or displayed. Variables appear in the .ini file as #variable_name#.