Clicking on the icon reveals the available interface options. Should a connection failure occur, the icon will acquire a superimposed red '?', and hovering the mouse over the icon will reveal the tooltip "NETWORK ERROR". Instead, your only indication that it is running is the appearance in the menubar of a generic UPS icon. When launched, no dock icon or interface window will open. Since I didn't see it mentioned in the other posts, I thought I'd add that the apcupsd installer places an application-apcupsd.app-in the /Applications folder. I’ve not yet tried #1 or #10, but the others work as expected. * After rebooting, the CLI menu allows for the following choices: Recall that lines prefaced by # are comments, often useful example settings but for functional parameter specifications you must remove the #. Having a little Unix knowledge, I lived dangerously and edited various parameters as suggested by their comments. Navigate to the directory and sudo-launch your favorite CLI text editor (vim, pico, etc). Solution: use the Terminal (which you'll have to use anyway for their CLI menu).
But its permissions are read-only so you can't save changes using TextEdit, which doesn't allow superuser override. * This config file is at /private/etc/apcupsd/nf. conf file if you want to add network reporting, which can’t be set up using only the simple CLI menu. You might be able to skip this step but should read through the config file now to ensure its default settings match your situation. It does open TextEdit to display two windows, one with the nf file, the other with a notice that you have to edit this configuration file for your specific UPS and should do this before agreeing to the installer's request to reboot. * the installer for apcusd is simple, but doesn’t warn that a reboot will be required to complete the install. I finally got a UPS just for it, APC’s BE750G and was annoyed by APC’s limited controls, tho happy that OSX itself does the basic controls nicely (aside: regret that I read the macintouch writer Robert Mohn’s recommendation for iDowell’s iBox and iPack UPS's only later, tho they cost at least twice as much: /reviews/idowell ) * the utility works fine on my “ICBM” (heh), a late ‘09 iMac. Don’t expect AppleScript or Automator would expand it.
DAEMON TOOLS FOR MAC OS X 10.8 FULL
This is a useful utility, and the author’s reasons are good: APC software doesn’t give full control even for beeps, much less for network notifications (tho I don’t use these). It works perfectly on my G4, but not on my ICBM (Intel Chip Based Mac).
DAEMON TOOLS FOR MAC OS X 10.8 WINDOWS
I stumbled across the open source Unix app Apcupsd which gives me all the features I want from the Windows version of PowerChute: beep settings, battery change dates, and so forth. The Mac version provides features that Mac OS X already provides: shutdown timers for any UPS connected via USB. The beep can be disabled by software in Windows, but not in the Mac version of PowerChute Personal Edition. If this happens at night, the beep is loud enough to wake people. My APC UPS beeps whenever the power fails.
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