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Chapter 9 User Drivers
The User Drivers feature allows the Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) to supervise any available Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP) or Network UPS Tools (NUT) device. You can customize and adapt the
Eaton IPM acquisition engine to many types of Data Center de
vices, such as HVAC, rack controllers, storage
appliance, or DC power system controllers.
By default, the User Driver feature is activated. However, if y
ou disable this function, nodes already discovered
that are using a User Driver are still managed.
NOTE This function is only accessible to Administrators.
User Drivers Editor
The User drivers editor dialog is used to integrate new devices in the IPM supervision application by using
following objects:
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predefined common base objects
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user-specific objects
Predefined custom drivers that are managed by the application include:
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UPS RFC1628 / SNMP: Manages the UPS which implements the SNMP mib RFC1628
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NAS BUFFALO
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/ SNMP: Manages the SNMP Buffalo Network Attached Storage (NAS)
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NAS HP / SNMP: Manages the SNMP HP NAS
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NAS NetApp / SNMP: Manages the SNMP NetApp NAS
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NAS Netgear / SNMP: Manages the SNMP Netgear NAS
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NAS Qnap / SNMP: Manages the SNMP Qnap NAS
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NAS Synology / SNMP: Manages the SNMP Synology NAS
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PDU / NUT Protocol: Manages the SNMP PDU using NUT
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UPS / NUT Protocol: Manages the SNMP UPS using NUT
NOTE NUT is open source software that provides control and management features for
power devices, such as UPSs, through a control and management interface. Visit at:
http://www.networkupstools.org
User Drivers Page
To supervise new devices with Eaton IPM:
1. From the left-side Views panel
of the Eaton IPM main interface window, select the Settings > Auto
Discovery menu item.
2. Select the
User drivers editor... button from the right panel (see Figure 126).
The User drivers editor page displays.