APC by Schneider Electric, formerly American Power Conversion, is a maker of electrical hardware, focused on, and best known for their uninterruptible power supply (UPS) product lines.
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apcupsd commok event fires where there was no commfailure
I have an openSUSE Tumbleweed host connected by USB to an APC Back-UPS NS1080G. For the most part everything works fine and apcupsd keeps track of the status. But lately every few weeks it fires the commok event without having fired the…

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APC SMX3000 Smart-UPS Battery has never been cycled. Is it still good?
I've recently inherited an APC SMX3000 Smart-UPS. The UPS has never been used. Is the battery still good?
The battery is plugged in, but the UPS reports "No Batteries".

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How to verify if a Windows Server shutdown was complete on server hardware before UPS killed power?
Our Windows Server 2012 R2 machine just got its own UPS (APC Back-UPS RS 550G). I'm using the Windows release of apcupsd and since I would prefer if the UPS would turn off after shutdown I also added the -p parameter to the service. As the…

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Can APC and OpCache co-exist in PHP5.4
We are generally running php 5.4.x with APC enabled on CENTOS for our production sites. We have a new app that is segfaulting and the development team thinks it is because we've got APC. The app is complicated and really needs an opcode cache.
We…

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APC Smart-UPS 5000VA maximum time
I planning to put a server on this ups (Europe, 230V):
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SUA5000RMI5U&ISOCountryCode=gb
My server has a relatively new energy saving power 700W power supply. I checked it with energy…

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HP Proliant ML350 G6 UPS
We're trying to select the best UPS within our budget.
Our goal is to allow 2 x HP Proliant ML350 G6 servers time enough to shutdown. We're estimating this to be no more than 10 minutes.
Can anyone help me to understand what I should be looking for…

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APC change to smart slot / card interface
I bought a new APC SMT1000C 1000VA UPS, which has the smart card interface on the back. I was planning to reuse my old AP9606 network card, but I discovered that APC has modified the slot to block the old cards. See photos below, new card has 2…

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NUT shuts down UPS even when power is available
I have an APC Backup UPS ES 850G2, connected via USB to a RaspberryPi acting as NUT master. The Pi uses the usbhid-ups driver. Several other devices are NUT slaves and poll the Pi for UPS info.
Here's a list of some particular things about the…

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snmpwalk: Decryption error for APC Rack PDU
I have an APC Rack PDU (AP7920) and have configured:
[x] Enable SNMPv3 access
Username: switch
Authentication Passphrase: test
Privacy Passphrase: test
Authentication Protocol: (o) MD5
Privacy Protocol: (o) DES
Access Control: [x] Enable, Username:…

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APC Smart-UPS 3000 turning off but passing own test
I have APC Smart-UPS 3000 at home which I got hand and apparently when the power goes down it just shuts down instead of switching to backup.
Based on how it behaves I have reasons to believe is not the batteries. Apparently there is no service…

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APC PDU has wrong idea of its outlets
I have a APC rack PDU here. It should be AP7953, although that doesn't show in the telnet interface:
About System
Model Number :
Serial Number :
NMC Serial Number :
Manufacture Date : ~
Hardware Revision :
MAC Address : 72 61 73 65…

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php performance issues between two servers
I know this question might be too broad but I'm desperate.
Prenote: Here I'm testing php with CLI but same difference occurs with Apache+PHP too. But to avoid Apache caching and other stuff I used only php cli for testing.
I've two dedicated VM…

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APC or Memcached - Nginx php-fpm wordpress
I am using a wordpress installation on
Ubuntu 16
Nginx
Php-fpm (latest version)
I intend to use W3 total cache for caching purposes and was wondering whether I should be going for Memcached or APC ?
Any experiences to share?

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APC Smart-UPS 750 self test stays at 100%
I have a previously reliable APC Smart-UPS 750 that recently went into "REPLACEBATT" status. I obediently bought a new battery and fitted it. As per procedure I then shut down the APC daemon (CentOS 6) and fired up apctest. The test started with no…

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How to auto clear APC cache after publishing posts on Wordpress?
I'm currently using APC cache module on my PHP installation . The problem is that whenever I publish a new post , Users must use Ctrl + f5 to see new posts . Is there any way to purge APC cache automatically after a new post is published on…

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