APC AP9617 - Manuals

Installation and Quick Start 1 How to Avoid Equipment Damage Disconnect UPS power You do not need to turn off a Symmetra ® or a Silcon ® model UPS to install the Management Card. Smart-UPS 1. Turn off the equipment that connects to the UPS. 2. Disconnect the UPS from its AC input source. 3. Press th...

2 Installation and Quick Start How to Recover from a Lost Password You can use a local computer that connects to the Management Card or other device through the serial port to access the control console. 1. Select a serial port at the local computer, and disable any service that uses that port. 2. C...

Installation and Quick Start 3 Preliminary Information Features All Network Management Cards have standard features that do the following: • Detect 10/100 Mbps connection speeds • Provide a data log accessible by FTP or a Web browser • Provide UPS scheduling features • Provide support for the APC Po...

4 Installation and Quick Start Preliminary Information AP9618U and AP9619U upgrade kits You can use an AP9618U kit to convert an AP9617 Network Management Card EX or an AP9619 Network Management Card EM into an AP9618 Network Management Card EM/ MDM . You can use an AP9619U kit to convert an AP9617 ...

Installation and Quick Start 5 Preliminary Information Inventory The Management Card package includes the following items: • This Installation and Quick Start Guide • Network Management Card• APC Network Management Card utility CD • Smart-signaling cable• Installation of Multiple Management Cards sh...

6 Installation and Quick Start Installation in a UPS Overview You can install the Management Card in a card slot in a Smart-UPS, Matrix-UPS, or Symmetra. For a Silcon UPS, the Management Card installs in a Silcon Triple Expansion Chassis (AP9604S). Step 1: Turn off all power (Smart-UPS or Matrix-UPS...

Installation and Quick Start 7 Installation in a UPS Step 2: Install the Network Management Card If you are installing the Management Card in a Symmetra UPS that uses more than one APC management product, see Installation of Multiple Management Cards , a copy of which came with the Management Card. ...

8 Installation and Quick Start Expansion/Triple Chassis Installation Overview Use an Expansion Chassis or a Triple Expansion Chassis if the UPS has no card slot available. The Management Card installs in the chassis and communicates with the UPS through the cable connection between the chassis and t...

Installation and Quick Start 9 Expansion/Triple Chassis Installation Step 2: Install the Network Management Card If the UPS uses more than one APC management product, see Installation of Multiple Management Cards , a copy of which came with the Management Card. You must install the APC management pr...

10 Installation and Quick Start Quick Configuration Overview You must configure the following TCP/IP settings before the APC Network Management Card can operate on a network: • IP address of the Management Card• Subnet mask• Default gateway TCP/IP configuration methods Use one of the following metho...

Installation and Quick Start 11 Quick Configuration APC Management Card Wizard You can use the APC Management Card Wizard (if it is supported for the firmware release you are using) at a Windows ® 98, Windows NT ® 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP computer to configure a Management Card. Not all rele...

12 Installation and Quick Start Quick Configuration BOOTP & DHCP configuration The Boot Mode setting, a TCP/IP option in the Management Card’s Network menu, identifies how the TCP/IP settings will be defined. The possible settings are Manual , DHCP only , BOOTP only , and DHCP & BOOTP (the d...

Installation and Quick Start 13 Quick Configuration 3. When the Management Card reboots, the BOOTP server provides it with the TCP/IP settings. – If you specified a bootup file name, the Management Card attempts to transfer that file from the BOOTP server using TFTP or FTP. The Management Card assum...

14 Installation and Quick Start Quick Configuration DHCP. You can use a RFC2131/RFC2132-compliant DHCP server to configure the TCP/IP settings for the Management Card. 1. A Management Card sends out a DHCP request that uses the following to identify itself: – A Vendor Class Identifier (APC by defaul...

Installation and Quick Start 15 Quick Configuration Local access to the control console You can use a local computer that connects to the serial port on the front of the Management Card to access the control console. 1. Select a serial port at the local computer, and disable any service that uses th...

Installation and Quick Start 17 Quick Configuration Control console After you log on at the control console, as described in “Local access to the control console” on page 15 or “Remote access to the control console” on page 15: 1. Choose Network from the Control Console menu. 2. Choose TCP/IP from t...

18 Installation and Quick Start How to Access a Configured Network Management Card Overview After the Network Management Card is running on your network, you can use the interfaces summarized here to access the unit. Web interface As your browser, you can use Microsoft ® Internet Explorer 5.0 (and h...

Installation and Quick Start 19 How to Access a Configured Network Management Card Telnet/SSH You can access the control console through Telnet or Secure SHell (SSH), depending on which is enabled. (An Administrator can enable these access methods through the Telnet/SSH option of the Network menu.) ...

20 Installation and Quick Start How to Access a Configured Network Management Card SNMP After you add the PowerNet MIB to a standard SNMP MIB browser, you can use that browser for SNMP access to the Network Management Card. The default read community name is public ; the default read/write community...

Radio Frequency Interference USA — FCC This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a co...

*990-7142B* APC Worldwide Customer Support Customer support for this or any other APC product is available at no charge in any of the following ways: • Visit the APC Web site to access documents in the APC Knowledge Base and to submit customer support requests.– www.apc.com (Corporate Headquarters) ...