APC AP9211 - Manual

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 2 Introduction Product Description continued LEDs Each outlet has a corresponding LED that indicates the state of the outlet, and two LED s indicate the status of the entire unit. The following table describes the conditions indicated by the LED s. C...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 3 Introduction Product Description continued Rear panel The following table lists the features of the MasterSwitch rear panel shown in the figures on this page. The following figure shows the MasterSwitch ( AP9211/AP9217 ) rear panel with NEMA 5-15 o...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 4 Introduction Initial Setup Required network settings You must configure the following network settings of the MasterSwitch PDU before it can operate on a network: • IP address of the unit • Subnet Mask • IP address of the default gateway Note: If a...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 5 MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit Managing the MasterSwitch PDU Management Interfaces Management Options After you configure a MasterSwitch PDU with the proper network settings, you can manage the unit remotely through its Web, Telnet Control Co...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 6 Managing the MasterSwitch PDU Management Interfaces continued Web interface, continued 2. Respond to the user name and password prompts. The default for both the Administrator user name and the Administrator password is apc (lowercase). After you l...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 7 Managing the MasterSwitch PDU Management Interfaces continued Control Console interface, continued Serial Interface. To access the unit’s Control Console, use the supplied null-modem cable to connect the serial port of the computer to the serial po...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 8 Managing the MasterSwitch PDU Management Interfaces continued WAP Interface To access and log on to the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) interface of the MasterSwitch PDU: 1. In the URL Location field of the Micro browser: Enter the unit’s IP ad...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 9 Managing the MasterSwitch PDU Password-Protected Accounts Account access There are up to 16 Outlet User accounts, one Administrator account, and one Device Manager account. Each type of account provides a different level of access to the management...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 10 MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit Menu Items Introduction Management Options Both the Web and Control Console interfaces provide the capabilities that this section describes for managing the MasterSwitch PDU , but the information in this sectio...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 11 Menu Items Outlets Outlet Control Actions You can perform the following Outlet Control Actions on individual outlets or on all accessible outlets as a group (by Master Outlet Control) . You can apply a Control Action only to an outlet that is not ...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 12 Menu Items MasterSwitch Configure Device Settings Outlet Configuration Item Definition Unit Name The name of the MasterSwitch PDU . Maximum: 23 characters. Coldstart Delay The time that the MasterSwitch PDU waits before applying power to outlets a...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 13 Menu Items Event Log Displaying the Event Log To display the Event Log, select the Event Log menu in the Web interface or press C TRL + L in the Control Console interface. The Event Log displays the following information for the most recent 300 ev...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 14 Menu Items Event Log continued Retrieving the Event Log by using FTP, continued 3. Type get event.txt . The MasterSwitch PDU transmits the Event Log, containing at least the last 300 events, to your specified drive. The screen displays information...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 15 Menu Items Network TCP/IP The TCP/IP section of the Network menu displays settings for the MasterSwitch PDU and allows you to configure the following TCP/IP settings. TFTP/FTP For control of file transfers, the TFTP/FTP section allows access to th...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 16 Menu Items Network continued Telnet/Web T. SNMP The SNMP section of the Network menu displays the following SNMP settings: Continued on next page Port Menu Item Definition Telnet Access Enables or Disables Telnet access. Port The TCP/IP port where...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 17 Menu Items Network continued SNMP, continued Access control. The Access Control section of the SNMP menu identifies the current settings for all four SNMP channels and provides the configurable values for a selected channel. Trap Receiver. The Tra...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 18 Menu Items System User Manager The User Manage r section of the System menu displays the following configurable properties of the Administrator and Device Manager accounts. Continued on next page Administrator Account Item Definition Auto Logout T...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 19 Menu Items System continued User Manager, continued Continued on next page Device Manager Account Item Definition User Name The user name. Maximum: 10 characters Default: device Password The password for HTTP 1.1 authentication only. Maximum: 10 c...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 20 Menu Items System continued Outlet User Management You can create up to 16 independent Outlet User accounts for a MasterSwitch PDU . Current Outlet User List. The list shows the existing outlet user accounts and the outlets to which they have acce...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 21 Menu Items System continued Identification Date/Time . Continued on next page Item Definition Name The system name used to identify the device. Name will be used for the sysName OID in the SNMP agent. Contact The contact for or owner of the device...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 22 Menu Items System continued File Transfer The File Transfer section of the System menu provides access for managing file transfers. Continued on next page Item Description Remote TFTP Server IP The IP address of the remote TFTP server defined in t...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 23 Menu Items System continued Tools Links The link names that you configure appear on the navigation menu at the left in the Web interface. (The APC links are pre-defined but can be changed.) . Note: Only the Web interface of the MasterSwitch PDU di...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 24 Menu Items Help Contents The Contents screen provides an overview of many parameters reported and configured through the Web and Control Console interfaces. Accessing and Navigating the Online Help To access the online help, do one of the followin...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 25 MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit Configuring and Using E-mail Notification Configuring E-mail Recipients Menu options To identify up to four e-mail recipients, use one of the following: • The Recipients option of the Web interface’s Events men...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 26 Configuring and Using E-mail Notification Configuring SMTP and DNS Settings Requirements for using SMTP To use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send e-mail when an event occurs, you must define the following settings: • The IP address o...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 27 MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit Event-Related Menus and Options Event Log Logged events The Management Card’s event log records normal and abnormal Management Card (system) events and MasterSwitch events. Any conditions that cause an SNMP tra...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 28 Event-Related Menus and Options Event Log continued Accessing the log, continued FTP. The event.txt file is a text version of the Management Card’s event log. • It is tab-delimited so that it can be imported into any spread-sheet application. • It...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 30 Event-Related Menus and Options Recipients Option Trap receivers You can define up to four NMS s to be used as trap receivers when an event occurs that has SNMP traps enabled. In the Web interface, use the Trap Receiver settings, available through...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 31 Event-Related Menus and Options Recipients Option continued Email Recipients To identify up to four e-mail recipients to be notified of events, use one of the following: • The Recipients option of the Web interface’s Events menu • The Email option...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 32 Event-Related Menus and Options Email Option Requirements for using SMTP To use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP ) to send e-mail when an event occurs, you must define the following settings: • The IP address of the domain name service (DN...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 33 Event-Related Menus and Options How to Configure Individual Events Options to configure individual events You can configure individual events as follows: • Use the evntlist.htm page. See Event list access on this page . • Use the I2C Configuration...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 34 Event-Related Menus and Options How to Configure Individual Events continued Event mask settings From the evntlist.htm page, to reconfigure actions for an event: 1. Click the link (the current hexadecimal code) for the event. 2. Enter a new hexade...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 36 Event-Related Menus and Options Management Card and MasterSwitch Events Event generation The Management Card and MasterSwitch both generate events, which are logged in the event log. Any event of either type generates a unique code, which you can ...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 37 Event-Related Menus and Options Management Card and MasterSwitch Events continued Management card events Note: You cannot configure actions for Management Card events that have no severity level. Continued on next page Code Severity Description 0x...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 39 MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit Security Security Features Planning and implementing security features As a network device that passes information across the network, the MasterSwitch PDU is subject to the same exposure as other devices on th...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 40 Security Authentication Authentication versus encryption The MasterSwitch PDU controls access by providing basic authentication through user names, passwords, and IP addresses, but provides no type of encryption. These basic security features are ...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 41 Security Authentication continued MD5 authentication (Web interface), continued If you use MD5 authentication, which is available only for the Web interface, disable the less secure interfaces, including Telnet, FTP , and SNMP . For SNMP , you can...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 42 Security Authentication continued Summary of access methods Interface Security Access Notes Serial Control Console Access is by user name and password. Always enabled. Telnet Control Console These methods are available: • User name and password• S...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 43 MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit Product Information Warranty Information Limited warranty American Power Conversion ( APC ) warrants the MasterSwitch PDU to be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of two years from the ...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 44 Product Information Obtaining Customer Support Contacting Customer Support To obtain customer support for problems with the MasterSwitch PDU : 1. Contact Customer Support at a phone number or address listed under APC Worldwide Customer Support on ...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 45 Product Information Life-Support Policy General policy American Power Conversion ( APC ) does not recommend the use of any of its products in the following situations: • In life-support applications where failure or malfunction of the APC product ...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 46 Product Information Specifications Product specifications for AP9211 Continued on next page Type of Specification Item Specification Electrical Input: Nominal input voltageAcceptable input voltageNominal input frequencyOvercurrent protectionInput ...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 50 MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit A About Card , 24 Access limiting NMS access by IP address , 17, 42 Account types access to menus for each type , 9 Administrator , 18 Device Manager , 19 Outlet User , 20 Actions option, Events menu , 29 Admin...

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit User’s Guide 53 Contact Information APC Worldwide Customer Support Customer support for this or any other APC product is available at no charge. You can contact APC Customer Support in any of the following ways: • Use an APC web page to find answers to frequently...