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.
