.TH UPSDRVCTL 8 "Wed Oct 16 2002" "" "Network UPS Tools (NUT)"
.SH NAME
upsdrvctl \- UPS driver controller
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B upsdrvctl -h

.B upsdrvctl [-t] [-v] (start | stop | shutdown | status) [\fIups\fB]

.SH DESCRIPTION

upsdrvctl provides a uniform interface for controlling your UPS drivers.
You should use upsdrvctl instead of direct calls to the drivers
whenever possible.

When used properly, upsdrvctl lets you maintain identical startup
scripts across multiple systems with different UPS configurations.

.SH OPTIONS

.IP -h
Display the help message.

.IP -t
Enable testing mode.  This also enables verbose mode.  Testing mode makes
upsdrvctl display the actions it would execute without actually doing them.
Use this to test out your configuration without actually doing anything
to your UPS drivers.  This may be helpful when defining the 'sdorder'
directive in your \fBups.conf\fR(5).

.IP -v
Enable verbose messages.

.SH COMMANDS

upsdrvctl supports four commands - start, stop, shutdown and status.
They take an optional argument which is a UPS name from
\fBups.conf\fR(5).  Without that argument, they operate on every UPS
that is currently configured.

.IP start
Start the UPS driver(s).

.IP stop
Stop the UPS driver(s).

.IP shutdown
Command the UPS driver(s) to run their shutdown sequence.  Drivers are
stopped according to their sdorder value - see \fBups.conf\fR(5).

WARNING: this will probably power off your computers, so don't
play around with this option.  Only use it when your systems are prepared
to lose power.

.IP status
Check the status of the UPS driver(s).

If every UPS that has been checked is running, then the exitcode will be
0.  If one seems to be missing, the exitcode will be 1.

.SH BUGS

The status checking is rudimentary, and really only looks for the
presence of .pid files.  If you really want to know if your UPS drivers
are alive and well, \fBupsmon\fR(8)'s NOCOMM notifier does a fine job.

.SH SEE ALSO
\fBnutupsdrv\fR(8), \fBupsd\fR(8) \fBups.conf\fR(5)

.SS Internet resources:
The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.exploits.org/nut/

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