APC Switched Rack Power Distribution Unit (PDU) - Manuals

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 1 Introduction Product Description Features of the PDU The APC ® Switched Rack Power Distribution Unit (PDU) is a stand-alone, network-manageable device that allows programmable control of eight, sixteen, or twenty-four power outlets (depending on the model). ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 2 Initial setup You must define three TCP/IP settings for the Switched Rack PDU before it can operate on the network. • IP address of the PDU• Subnet mask• IP address of the default gateway The PDU does not provide power protection. Therefore, APC does not rec...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 3 Access Procedures Overview The PDU has two internal interfaces (control console and Web interface) which provide menus with options that allow you to manage the PDU. The SNMP interface also allows you to use an SNMP browser with the PowerNet ® Management Inf...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 4 Types of user accounts The PDU has three levels of access (Administrator, Device Manager, and Outlet user), all of which are protected by password and user name requirements. • An Administrator can use all of the management menus available in the control con...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 5 How to Recover From a Lost Password You can use a local computer that connects to the PDU through the serial port on the front panel of the unit. 1. Select a serial port at the local computer, and disable any service which uses that port. 2. Use the supplied...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 6 Upgrading Firmware 0 You can use a local computer that connects to the PDU through the serial port on the front panel of the unit. 1. Select a serial port at the local computer, and disable any service which uses that port. 2. Use the supplied serial cable (...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 7 9. In the terminal program, send the file using the XMODEM protocol. Upon completion of the transfer, the console will prompt you to restore the baud rate to normal. The PDU will reboot when the download is complete. C auti on Do not interrupt the download. ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 8 Front Panel Single-phase Three-phase Link - Rx/Tx 10 /100 Status Serial Port Reset Press and hold to invert display - Warning - OK - Overload Link - Rx/Tx 10 /100 Status Serial Port Reset Press to select line. Press and hold to inver t display. - Warning - O...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 10 Link-RX/TX (10/100) LED This LED indicates the network status. Status LED This LED indicates the network status of the PDU. Condition Description Off The device which connects the PDU to the network is off or not operating correctly. Flashing Green The PDU ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 12 Watchdog Features Overview To detect internal problems and recover from unanticipated inputs, the PDU uses internal, system-wide watchdog mechanisms. When it restarts itself to recover from an internal problem, a System: Warmstart event is recorded in the E...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 13 Control Console How to Log On Overview You can use either a local (serial) connection, or a remote (Telnet) connection to access the control console. Use case-sensitive User Name and Password entries to log on (by default, apc and apc , for an Administrator...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 14 Local access to the control console You can use a local computer that connects to the Switched Rack PDU through the serial port on the front of the unit. 1. Select a serial port at the local computer, and disable any service which uses that port. 2. Use the...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 15 Main Screen Example main screen The main screen that is displayed when you log on to the control console of a Switched Rack PDU. Information and status fields Main screen information fields. • Two fields identify the APC operating system (AOS) and applicati...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 17 Main screen status fields. • A Stat field reports the Switched Rack PDU status. Stat : P+ N+ A+ • A Switched Rack PDU model and name field reports the status of the Switched Rack PDU. For example: Switched Rack PDU: Communication Established P+ The APC oper...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 18 Control Console Menus Menu structure The menus in the control console list options by number and name. To use an option, type the corresponding number and press E NTER , then follow any on-screen instructions. For menus that allow you to change a setting, y...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 19 Main menu The main control console menu has options that provide access to the management features of the control console: 1- Device Manager2- Network3- System4- Logout s Device Manager option This option accesses the Device Manager menu. Select the compone...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 20 System option To do any of the following tasks, see System Menu : • Control Administrator , Device Manager , and Outlet User access • Define the system Name , Contact , and Location values • Set the date and time used by the Switched Rack PDU• Restart the S...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 21 Web Interface How to Log On Overview You can use the DNS name or System IP address of the Switched Rack PDU for the URL address of the Web interface. Use your case-sensitive User Name and Password settings to log on (by default, apc and apc , for an Adminis...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 22 Supported Web browsers You can use the Microsoft ® Internet Explorer (IE) browser (5.0 or higher) or the Netscape ® browser (4.0.8 or higher) to access the Switched Rack PDU through its Web interface. Some Web interface features (data verification and event...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 23 URL address formats Type the DNS name or IP address of the Switched Rack PDU in the Web browser’s URL address field and press E NTER . Except as noted below, http:// is automatically added by the browser. • For a DNS name of Web1, the entry would be: http:/...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 24 Summary Page When you log on to the web interface at the Switched Rack PDU, the status view is displayed at the right side of the screen, the quick status tab is displayed at the upper right, and the navigation menu is displayed at the left. Status The Stat...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 25 Quick status tab The quick status tab is displayed at the upper right on every page in the Web interface. The tab shows active alarms and warnings, and a link to the online help. • Click the question mark (?) icon to access the online help for the displayed...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 27 Selecting a menu to perform a task • To do the following, see Switched Rack PDU Settings : – Configure the overload thresholds for each phase– Configure the Overload Outlet Restriction for each phase – Set the Name , Location , and Coldstart Delay for this ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 28 – Define the system Name , Contact , and Location values – Set the date and time used by the PDU– Restart the Switched Rack PDU– Reset control console settings to default settings– Define the URL addresses of the user links and APC logo links in the Web int...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 30 Device Manager Menus Outlet Settings Control outlets Web interface. To control the outlets on your Switched Rack PDU individually or as a group, select the check boxes next to the outlet numbers or the Apply to all Outlets check box in the Outlets menu. Sel...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 31 Configure outlet settings and outlet name Web Interface. To configure the outlet settings and outlet name: 1. Select the Configuration option of the Outlets menu, and click the Configure button. 2. Select the check boxes next to the numbers of the outlets y...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 32 Control Console. To configure the outlet settings and outlet name: 1. Select Outlet Control/Config from the Device Manager menu. 2. Choose the number of the outlet you want to control, and press E NTER . 3. Choose option 2, Configure Outlet , to display and...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 33 Switched Rack PDU Settings Configure Load Thresholds Web interface. Select Switched Rack PDU from the navigation menu and and click the Configure button in the Load Management section. Set the Overload Alarm thresholds, Near Overload Warning thresholds, Low...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 35 Configure Device Settings Web interface. Select Device Settings on the Switched Rack PDU menu, click the Configure button and configure the Name and Location fields for the PDU, and set the Coldstart Delay . Control console. 1. Select Outlet Control/Config ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 36 Event-Related Menus Introduction Overview The Events menu provides access to the options that you use to do the following tasks: • Access the event log• Define the actions to be taken when an event occurs, based on the severity level of that event – Event l...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 37 Menu options In the Web interface, all of the events options are accessed through the Events menu. In the control console, access the available events-related options as follows: • Use the Email option in the Network menu to define the SMTP server and e-mai...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 39 Logged events By default, any event which causes an SNMP trap will be logged, except for SNMP authentication failures. Additionally, the Switched Rack PDU will log its abnormal internal system events. However, you can use the Actions option in the Web inter...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 40 Control console Press C TRL -L to display up to 300 events from the event log, in reverse chronological order. Use the S PACE B AR to scroll through the recorded events. While viewing the log, type d and press E NTER to clear all events from the log. After ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 41 How to use FTP to retrieve log files You can use FTP to retrieve a tab-delineated event log ( event.txt ) file that you can import into a spreadsheet application. • The file reports all of the events ( event.txt ) recorded since the log was last deleted. • ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 42 an Administrator or a Device Manager User. – For Administrator, apc is the default for User Name and Password . – For Device Manager, device is the default for User Name , and apc is the default for Password . 3. Use the get command to transmit the text ver...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 43 Event Actions (Web Interface Only) Overview The Actions option is available only on the Web interface’s Events menu. This option allows you to select which actions will occur for events that have a specified severity level: • Event Log selects which severit...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 44 Severity levels Except for some System (embedded management card) events that do not have a severity level,events are assigned a default severity level based on their seriousness. • Informational: Indicates an event that requires no action, such as a notifi...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 45 Email action By default, the Email action is enabled for all events that have a severity level assigned. However, before you can use e-mail for event notifications, you must define the e-mail recipients. \ To define up to four NMSs as trap receivers, see Ev...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 46 Event Recipients Overview The Web interface and control console both have options that allow you to define up to four trap receivers and up to four e-mail addresses to be used when an event occurs that has the SNMP traps or e-mail enabled. Trap receiver set...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 47 E-mail Feature Overview You can use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send e-mail to up to four recipients when an event occurs. To use the e-mail feature, you must define the following settings: • The IP addresses of the primary and secondary Dom...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 48 DNS servers The Switched Rack PDU cannot send any e-mail messages unless the IP address of the primary DNS server is defined (see DNS servers ). The Switched Rack PDU will wait a maximum of 15 seconds for a response from the primary or (if specified) the se...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 51 How to Configure Individual Events Event List page The Actions option in the Events menu opens the “Event Action Configuration” page on the Web interface. Use the Details button in this page to access a complete list of the events that can be reported by yo...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 52 System Menu Introduction Overview Use the System menu to do the following tasks: • Configure system identification, date and time settings, and Administrator, Device manager, and Outlet user access • Synchronize the real-time clock for the Switched Rack PDU...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 53 Menu options Unless noted, the following menu options are available in the control console and Web interface: • User Manager • Outlet Manager • Identification • Date & Time • Tools • Links (Web interface) • About System The About System option is a Help...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 54 Option Settings User Manager Use this option to define the access values shared by the control console and the Web interface, and the authentication used to access the Web interface. Setting Definition Auto Logout The number of minutes (3, by default), befo...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 55 Outlet Manager Use the Outlet User Manager option to set up user accounts that have access only to certain outlets . Web interface. Choose a user name, or choose Add New User to edit accounts. Control console. Select System from the control console menu. Th...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 56 Identification Use this option to define the System Name , Contact , and Location values used by the SNMP agent for the Switched Rack PDU. The option’s settings provide the values used for the MIB-II sysName , sysContact , and sysLocation Object Identificat...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 57 Set Manually. Use this option in the Web interface, or Manual in the control console, to set Date and Time for the Switched Rack PDU. . An Apply Local Computer Time to Switched Rack PDU option, which is available in the Web interface only, sets these values...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 58 Synchronize with Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server. Use this option on the web interface, or Network Time Protocol (NTP) on the control console, to have an NTP Server automatically update the Date and Time settings for the Switched Rack PDU. Tools Use this...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 59 Links (Web interface) Use this option to modify the links to APC Web pages. . Reset to Defaults Resets all configuration settings. This option will reset the TCP/IP settings and enable DHCP and BOOTP. Reset to Defaults Except TCP/IP Resets all configuration...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 61 Network Menu Introduction Overview Use the Network menu to do the following tasks: • Define TCP/IP settings, including BOOTP server settings, when a BOOTP server is used to provide the needed TCP/IP values • Use the Ping utility• Define settings that affect...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 62 Option Settings TCP/IP Use this option to enable or disable BOOTP, and when BOOTP is disabled, to define the three TCP/IP settings that the Switched Rack PDU needs to operate on the network. • System IP address for the Switched Rack PDU• Subnet mask value• ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 63 Current TCP/IP settings fields. The current values for System IP , Subnet Mask , Default Gateway , the MAC Address, Host Name, and the Domain Name for the Switched Rack PDU are displayed with the TCP/IP settings in the control console and Web interface. The...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 64 DNS Configure Domain Name Service Settings fields. Use these fields to define the IP addresses of the primary and secondary Domain Name Servers (DNS) used by the Switched Rack PDU e-mail feature. Send DNS Query (Web interface only). Use this option, availab...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 67 SNMP An Access option (the Settings option in the control console) enables (by default) or disables SNMP. When SNMP is enabled, the Access Control settings allow you to control how each of the four available SNMP channels is used. To define up to four NMSs ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 68 Email Use this option to define two SMTP settings ( SMTP Server and From Address ) used by the e-mail feature of the Switched Rack PDU. For more information about these settings, see SMTP settings ; for more information about the e-mail capability of the Sw...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 69 Boot Mode Introduction Overview In addition to using a BOOTP server or manual settings, the Switched Rack PDU can use a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server to provide the settings that it needs to operate on a TCP/IP network. The method used t...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 70 DHCP & BOOTP boot process When Boot mode is set to its default DHCP & BOOTP setting, the following occurs when the Switched Rack PDU is started or reset: 1. The Switched Rack PDU makes up to five requests for its network assignment from any BOOTP se...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 71 DHCP Configuration Settings Switched Rack PDU settings The TCP/IP option in the Network menu of the Web interface and control console accesses the network settings for the Switched Rack PDU. Three settings ( Port Speed , Host Name , and Domain Name ) are av...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 73 DHCP response options Each valid DHCP response contains options that provide the TCP/IP settings that the Switched Rack PDU needs to operate on a network, and other information that affects the operation of the PDU. The PDU uses the Vendor Specific Informat...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 75 TCP/IP options. The Switched Rack PDU uses the following options within a valid DHCP response to define its TCP/IP settings: • IP Address (from the yiaddr field of the DHCP response): Provides the IP address that the DHCP server is leasing to the PDU. • Sub...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 76 Security Security Features Planning and implementing security features As a network device that passes information across the network, the Switched Rack PDU is subject to the same exposure as other devices on the network. Use the information in this section...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 77 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• Selectable server port• Server Enable/Disable...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 78 Interface Security Access Notes Authentication Authentication versus encryption You can select to use security features for the Switched Rack PDU that control access by providing basic authentication through user names, passwords, and IP addresses, without ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 80 Product Information Warranty and Service Limited warranty APC warrants the Switched Rack PDU to be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of two years from the date of purchase. Its obligation under this warranty is limited to repairing...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 81 Warranty limitations Except as provided herein, APC makes no warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Some jurisdictions do not permit limitation or exclusion of implied warranties; theref...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 82 daytime phone number; a copy of the sales receipt; and a check as payment, if applicable. 5. Mark the RMA number clearly on the outside of the shipping carton.6. Ship by insured, prepaid carrier to the address provided by the Customer Support technician.

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 83 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 can be reasonably expected to ...

® ® ® ® USER ’S GUIDE switched rack pdu 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 find answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs), to access documents in the APC Knowledge Ba...

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