User`s guide

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) User’s Guide v1.40 P-164000289—Rev 2 1
Chapter 1 Introduction
The Eaton
®
Intelligent Power
®
Manager (IPM) is a power environmental device supervision tool for IT
environments. The Eaton IPM delivers a global view across the network fr
om any PC with an Internet browser.
Exceptionally versatile, the software is compatible with any device that supports a network interface, such as
environmental sensors, other manufacturer’s Power Distribution Unit (PDU) or Eaton Enclosure Power
Distribu
tion Unit (ePDU
®
), other manufacturer’s UPSs, and applications. The Eaton IPM can also organize a
management table by groups, centralize alarms, and maintain events logs for preventive maintenance of the
entire installed equipment base.
The Eaton IPM provides the following:
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Discovers and supervises UPSs, PDUs, and ePDUs connected to the network either a card or a proxy. For
the detailed list of compatible solutions, see “Compatibility” on page 2.
l
Supervises the remote servers hosting the Eaton
®
Intelligent Power
®
Protectorr (IPP) or Network Shutdown
Module V3 application.
l
Provides advanced management feature (mass configuration and mass upload) with the Eaton
®
Network
Management Cards (also called NMC): Network-MS (example, 66102/103006826) and Modbus-MS
(example, 66103)
l
Provides local computer graceful shutdown through Network or local connectivity, such as USB or RS-232
port
l
Provides an agentless method for directly managing and controlling VMware
®
Hypervisors through the
VMware
®
vCenter
™
management platform
l
Provides centralized management of Eaton IPP applications running on virtualized servers other than
VMware vCenter (such as Microsoft
®
Hyper-V™ Hypervisor or Citrix
®
Xen
®
).
Figure 1 shows the Eaton IPM Node Map page.
Figure 1. Eaton IPM Node Map Page