User`s guide

Metered Rack PDU for High Density
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Note: Most software firewalls must be
temporarily disabled for the Wizard to
discover unconfigured Rack PDUs
1. Insert the APC Metered Rack Power
Distribution Unit Utility CD into a
computer on your network.
2. If autorun is enabled, the user interface of the
CD starts when you insert the CD. Otherwise,
open the file contents.htm on the CD.
3. Click Device IP Configuration Wizard and
follow the instructions.
Note: If you leave the Start a
Web browser when finished
option enabled, you can use apc for
both the user name and password to
access the Metered Rack Power
Distribution Unit through your
browser.
BOOTP & DHCP configuration
At the Web interface, select the Administration tab,
Network from the top menu bar, then TCP/IP from
the left navigation menu to identify how TCP/IP
settings will be defined. The default TCP/IP
configuration setting, BOOTP & DHCP, assumes
that a properly configured BOOTP or DHCP server
is available to provide TCP/IP settings to the Rack
PDU. The Rack PDU first attempts to discover a
properly configured BOOTP server, and then a
DHCP server. It repeats this pattern until it discovers
a BOOTP or DHCP server.
If neither of these servers is available,
see “APC Device IP Configuration
Wizard” on page 6, “Local access to the
control console” on page 9, or “Remote
access to the control console” on page 10
to configure the needed TCP/IP settings.
A user configuration (.ini) file can
function as a BOOTP or DHCP boot file.
For more information, see the TCP/IP
configuration section of the Metered
Rack PDU User’s Guide, available on the
enclosed Utility CD, or on the APC Web
site, www.apc.com.
BOOTP. You can use an RFC951-compliant
BOOTP server to configure the TCP/IP settings for
the Rack PDU. If the BOOTP server is properly
configured, the Rack PDUs default setting (DHCP &
BOOTP) for TCP/IP configuration causes it to
discover the BOOTP server.