User Manual

68UPS Network Management Card 3 User Guide
General menu
This menu deals with miscellaneous configuration items including device identification, date and time,
exporting and importing your NMC configuration options, the three links at the bottom left of the screen, and
consolidating data for troubleshooting purposes.
Identification screen
Path: Configuration > General > Identification
Define the Name (the NMC System Name, see “DNS screen”), the Location (the physical location), and the
Contact (the person responsible for the device) used by:
• the SNMP agent of the NMC
• StruxureWare Data Center Expert
Specifically, the name field is used by the sysName, sysContact, and sysLocation object
identifiers (OIDs) in the NMC’s SNMP agent. For more information about MIB-II OIDs, see the
PowerNet
®
SNMP Management Information Base (MIB) Reference Guide, available on the APC
website.
Date/ Time screen
Mode.
Path: Configuration > General > Date/Time > Mode
Set the time and date used by the NMC. You can change the current settings manually or through a Network
Time Protocol (NTP) Server:
With both, you select the Time Zone. This is your local time difference with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC),
also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
• Manual Mode: Do one of the following:
– Enter the date and time for the NMC or
– mark the check box Apply Local Computer Time to read the date and time settings of the
computer you are using and apply those here.
• Synchronize with NTP Server: Have an NTP (Network Time Protocol) Server define the date and
time for the NMC.
By default, any NMC on the private side of StruxureWare Data Center Expert obtains its time
settings by using StruxureWare Data Center Expert as an NTP server.
Field Description
Override Manual NTP
Settings
If you select this, data from other sources (typically DHCP) take
precedence over the NTP configurations you set here.
Primary NTP Server Enter the IP address or domain name of the primary NTP server.
Secondary NTP
Server
Enter the IP address or domain name of the secondary NTP server,
when a secondary server is available.
Update Interval
Define, in hours, how often the NMC accesses the NTP Server for an
update. Minimum: 1; Maximum: 8760 (1 year).