How to check Advantech Power Sensor(APS) utility command version and supported list

Purpose:

Advantech Power Sensor(APS) is a I2C utility to monitor PSU status for non-BMC system. This article instructs on how to APS version and its supported list.

Audience:

Users with Linux basic knowledge owing a non-BMC platform.

Prerequisites:

Latest version of Advantech iManager

Steps:

1-  Download latest version for Advantech iManager

2-  Check APS utility version beforehand

# ./aps -v
PSU-Status v0.44

3- Check following table or APS README.md,  APS utility had changed module list type at V0.34 (or above version), New version is using "redundant PSU module" as support list, and older version(before V0.34) was using "redundant PSU cage" as support list

# more README.md

# Supported PSU

|               PSU-Name                | Range Values Reliability  | Minimum Required Version  |
| ------------------------------------- | :-----------------------: | :-----------------------: |
| Delta AC-155A (module DPS-250AB-81E)  |            No             |  -             |
| Zippy M1Y2-5300G2H                    |            Yes            |V0.40           |
| FSP YM-2301E (model YH-5301E)         |            Yes            |V0.34           |
| 3Y YH-2081B (model YH-2081B)          |            No             |  -             |
| Zippy R1S2-5300V4V                    |            Yes            |V0.40           |
| Zippy R1S2-5300K0V                    |            Yes            |V0.40           |
| FSP YM-2301R (model YH-5301R)         |            Yes            |V0.34           |
| FSP YM-2301S (model YH-5301R)         |            Yes            |V0.34           |
| AcBel R1CA2301A                       |            No             |  -             |
| Delta AC-148H                         |            Yes            |V0.34           |
| 3Y YM-2121A (model YH-5121A)          |            Yes            |V0.40           |
| Delta DPS-300AB                       |            Yes            |V0.42           |

If a customer uses older APS utility (before 0.34) to check PSU status. please refer README.md "Supported PSU list" to key-in PSU cage model name for access PSU status, 

$ aps -p "FWA-3270A" -s "YH-5301E"

---------------------------------------------------------------

NAME                 | VALUE           | STATUS          | TYPE
---------------------------------------------------------------
PSU1                 | 1               | RUN             | DEV            
PSU1_12_OUT-VOL      | 12.19           | OK              | VOL           
PSU1_12_OUT-CUR      | 1.11            | REF             | CUR     
PSU1_5_OUT-VOL       | 5.14            | OK              | VOL           
PSU1_5_OUT-CUR       | 0.28            | REF             | CUR           
PSU1_FAN1-SPEED      | 6744.00         | OK              | SPEED         
PSU1_TEMP1-TMP       | 35.00           | OK              | TEMP          
PSU1_TEMP2-TMP       | 39.00           | OK              | TEMP          
PSU2                 | 1               | RUN             | DEV           
PSU2_12_OUT-VOL      | 12.14           | OK              | VOL           
PSU2_12_OUT-CUR      | 0.60            | REF             | CUR           
PSU2_5_OUT-VOL       | 5.11            | OK              | VOL           
PSU2_5_OUT-CUR       | 0.19            | REF             | CUR            
PSU2_FAN1-SPEED      | 6819.00         | OK              | SPEED         
PSU2_TEMP1-TMP       | 36.00           | OK              | TEMP          
PSU2_TEMP2-TMP       | 40.00           | OK              | TEMP         

Please don't key-in PSU module's model name in older APS (before 0.34) utility

$ /sbin/aps 
PSU-Status v0.26
$ /sbin/aps -p "FWA-3270A" -s "YH-2301E"
Error happened(ffff76dc)
    PSU-Status for reading sensors with PMbus.

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