If you have an APC with a USB cable, the quickest way to get this working is to use apcupsd.
If your APC has a serial connection, and you still have the original serial cable (the pin-outs are nonstandard) you can connect it to your system with a cheap serial to usb adapter. Your setup for that would be:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-908274.html If you have a more complicated set up look into nut below (that is circa 2009 though, so take it with a grain of salt) |