User`s guide

Redundancy
98 Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) User’s Guide v1.40 P-164000289—Rev 2
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Hot standby mode: When the upstream UPS powers the load, the downstream UPS is on bypass.
Figure 110. Hot Standby
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Static transfer switch for two components: For STS mode, there are several cases with single STS or
multiple STSs.
Figure 111. Static Transfer Switch
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Parallel for two or more components: All the UPSs power the load at the same time.
Figure 112. Parallel Redundancy Schema
Configuring Redundancy
To configure redundancy:
1. Fr o m Star
t > Programs > Eaton > Intelligent Power Manager, select Open Eaton Intelligent Power
Manager to st
art the main Eaton IPM graphical interface. Login with an administrator user profile.
2. Select the Set
tings > Auto Discovery menu item.
3. From the Nodes List page, select two or more nodes.
4. Click Set
composite device in the right panel (see Figure 113).