Re: Were is gapcmon?
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:38:55 -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:04:12AM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>>
>> Ups, I've totaly missed that Marc said 'apcupsd'. In this case here are
>> my deep appologies to Marc and everybody Being over busy last couple of
>> days I was quite hasty in this case. Sorry.
>>
> No problem. I certainly was not offended. It was an honest mistake.
>
>> BTW. about apcupsd-cgi. I found that in order to use it I need to
>> install appache2. I never needed to run a server on my home desktop
>> before. Wouldn't it be a little overkill to install appache server only
>> to use apcupsd web interface?
>>
> The dependency is 'apache2 | httpd', so you can use just about any web
> server since they all support CGI. You might find lighttpd simpler than
> apache2.
>
>> I'm realy not sure I want to spend a lot of time on securing and then
>> maintaning the server. However I'm not realy familiar with the matter.
>> Is it over complicated or I'd rather use CLI to control apcuspd daemon?
>>
> That is a choice you have to make. If you run a firewall on your machine
> and you do not expose the ports (3551 for apcupsd and 80 for httpd),
> then there is no real concern. That said, if you do not want to worry
> about a webserver, you can probably script something that retrieves that
> data from the apcupsd process on port 3551. It should not require very
> much effort at all.
Thanks, Roberto.
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