How to Select a Language for Event Text

You can customize PowerChute plus so that event text and popup text (workstation notification messages) are displayed in one of four languages other than the default, English.

PowerChute plus logs event text in the Event Log file and displays in the Last Two Events window of the Main Screen when an event occurs.

PowerChute plus uses popup text in notification messages in response to events for which either the Notify Administrators or Notify Users action is configured. To configure these actions, see How to Configure FlexEvents.

To replace the default English messages with messages in the language of your choice, perform the following steps.

  1. In your PowerChute plus installation directory, make a backup copy of the PowerChute plus initialization file, powerchute.ini. Name the backup copy as powerchute.old.

  2. Use an ASCII text editor to replace the [EventText] and [PopupText] sections of the initialization file with the language file of your choice:

    a.
    In the initialization file, delete the entire [EventText] and [PopupText] sections, beginning with the section heading [EventText] and ending with the final line in the [PopupText] section, which reads as follows:

    3003=UPS batteries at #HOSTNAME# are discharged

    Do not delete the section heading [FlexEventNames] or any of the lines following it. The [FlexEventNames] section immediately follows the [PopupText] section.

    b.
    In place of the sections you just deleted, insert the entire contents of one of the following files from the languages subdirectory on your installation CD-ROM or from the APC's Worldwide Web site, http://www.apcc.com.

    c.
    Save the edited file as powrchute.ini, and exit from the text editor.

  3. If PowerChute plus is running, stop and restart it.

If PowerChute plus does not restart correctly or does not function properly, you may have made an editing error that damaged the powerchute.ini file. Use the file powerchute.old that you created in Step 1 to recreate a correct powerchute.ini file, and perform the procedure in this section again.