User’s Guide

Network
Management Card

AP9635
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Contents

Introduction ..................................................................... 1
Product Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Initial setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Network management features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Internal Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Access priority for logging on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Types of user accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

How to Recover from a Lost Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Status LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Link-RX/TX (10/100) LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Watchdog Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Network interface watchdog mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Resetting the network timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Command Line Interface ................................................ 8

How To Log On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Remote access to the command line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Sample main screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Information and status fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using the Command Line Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Entering commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Command syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Syntax examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Command Response Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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 Command Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
about . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
alarmcount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
cd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
dir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
dns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
eventlog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
ftp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
modbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
netstat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
ntp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
portSpeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
radius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
reboot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
resetToDef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
snmp, snmp3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
tcpip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
tcpip6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
tls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
uio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
xferINI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
xferStatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Web Interface ................................................................. 28

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Supported Web browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

How to Log On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
URL address formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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 Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Quick status icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Recent Device Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

How to Use the Tabs, Menus, and Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Quick Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Monitor the UPS and Configure Shutdowns ............... 32

Overview Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Operating state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Quick Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Recent UPS Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Status Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Model-specific status displayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

The PowerChute Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

PowerChute Network Shutdown clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
PowerChute Network Shutdown configuration parameters . . . . . 35

The About Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Environmental Monitoring ............................................ 37

Overview Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Temperature and Humidity Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Brief status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Detailed status and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Input Contacts Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Brief status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Detailed status and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Output Relay Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

About Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Configuring the Control Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Configuring an output to respond to an event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring the UPS or output to respond to an input alarm . . . . 42

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Logs ................................................................................ 43
Use the Event and Data Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Event log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Data log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
How to use FTP or SCP to retrieve log files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Syslog servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Administration: Security............................................... 50
Local Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Setting user access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Remote Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Configuring the RADIUS Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Summary of the configuration procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Configuring a RADIUS server on UNIX® with shadow passwords 52
Supported RADIUS servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Inactivity Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Administration: Network Features............................... 54

TCP/IP and Communication Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
TCP/IP settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
DHCP response options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Ping Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Port Speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SNMPv1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SNMPv3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Modbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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 FTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Administration: Notification ......................................... 65

Event Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Types of notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Configuring event actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Active, Automatic, Direct Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

E-mail notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SNMP traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SNMP Trap Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Remote Monitoring Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Syslog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Administration: General Options ................................. 72

Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Set the Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Daylight saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Use an .ini File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Event Log, Temperature Units, and Log-In Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

Color-code event log text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Change the default temperature scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Specify the UI language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Specify a default login page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Reset the Management Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Configure Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

About the Management Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Device IP Configuration Wizard ................................... 76

Capabilities, Requirements, and Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
How to use the Wizard to configure TCP/IP settings . . . . . . . . . . . 76
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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 Use the Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Configure the basic TCP/IP settings remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Configure or reconfigure the TCP/IP settings locally . . . . . . . . . . 78

How to Export Configuration Settings ........................ 79

Retrieving and Exporting the .ini File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Summary of the procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Contents of the .ini file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Detailed procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

The Upload Event and Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

The event and its error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Messages in config.ini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Errors generated by overridden values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Related Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

File Transfers ................................................................. 83

How to Upgrade Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Benefits of upgrading firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Firmware files (Network Management Card) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Obtain the latest firmware version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Firmware File Transfer Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Use FTP or SCP to upgrade one Management Card . . . . . . . . . . . 84
How to upgrade multiple Management Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Using the NMC2 Firmware Upgrade Utility for multiple upgrades 86
Use XMODEM to upgrade one Management Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Use a USB drive to transfer the files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Verifying Upgrades and Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Verify the success or failure of the transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Last Transfer Result codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Verify the version numbers of installed firmware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Adding and Changing Language Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Troubleshooting ............................................................ 89
Management Card Access Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

SNMP Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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Appendix A: List of Supported Commands ................ 91
Two-Year Factory Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Terms of warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Non-transferable warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Exclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Warranty claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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 Introduction
Product Description
Features

The American Power Conversion Network Management Card (AP9635) is a Web-based product that
manages supported devices using multiple, open standards such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP),
Telnet, Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS), Secure SHell (SSH), Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and Secure CoPy (SCP). The
Network Management Card:

• Provides data and event logs

• Provides support for the PowerChute® Network Shutdown utility
• Supports using a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) or BOOTstrap Protocol
(BOOTP) server to provide the network (TCP/IP) values of the Management Card
• Supports using the Remote Monitoring Service (RMS)
• Supports remote monitoring over modem using Tele Service Connect (TLS) (MGE® Galaxy® 300
and MGE Galaxy 7000 only). Contact APC Support for information.
• Enables you to configure notification through event logging (by the Management Card and
Syslog), e-mail, and SNMP traps. You can configure notification for single events or groups of
events, based on the severity level or category of events
• Provides the ability to export a user configuration (.ini) file from a configured card to one or more
unconfigured cards without converting the file to a binary file
• Provides a selection of security protocols for authentication and encryption
• Communicates with InfraStruxure® Central
• Supports Modbus RTU over a serial RS485 port
• Supports Modbus over TCP (Symmetra® PX 250 and 500 only)
Devices in which you can install the Management Card. The AP9635 Network Management Card
can be installed into the Symmetra PX 250, Symmetra PX 500, MGE Galaxy 300, and MGE Galaxy
7000 UPS devices.

Note: The Network Management Card ships with the firmware for the MGE Galaxy 300 and
MGE Galaxy 7000 already installed. If you are ordering the card as a replacement part for a
Symmetra PX 250 or Symmetra PX 500, you will need to install the Symmetra-specific
firmware. Contact APC Worldwide Customer Support for more information. See “APC
Worldwide Customer Support” on page 96.

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Initial setup

You must define three TCP/IP settings for the Network Management Card before it can operate on the
network:

• IP address of the Management Card

• Subnet mask
• IP address of the default gateway
Caution: Do not use the loopback address (127.0.0.1) as the default gateway. Doing
so disables the card. You must then log on using a serial connection and reset TCP/IP
settings to their defaults.
To configure the TCP/IP settings, see the Network Management Card Installation
Manual, available on the Network Management Card Utility CD and in
printed form.
For detailed information on how to use a DHCP server to configure the TCP/IP
settings at a Management Card, see “TCP/IP and Communication Settings” on
page 54.

Network management features

These applications and utilities work with a UPS that connects to the network through a Network
Management Card.

• PowerChute Network Shutdown—Provide unattended remote graceful shutdown of computers

that are connected to American Power Conversion UPS devices.
• PowerNet® Management Information Base (MIB) with a standard MIB browser—Perform SNMP
SETs and GETs and to use SNMP traps.
• InfraStruxure Central—Provide enterprise-level power management and management of
Amercian Power Conversion agents, UPS devices, and environmental monitors.
• Device IP Configuration Wizard—Configure the basic settings of one or more Network
Management Cards over the network.
• Security Wizard—Create components needed for high security for the Network Management
Card when you are using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and related protocols and encryption
routines.

Internal Management Features

Overview

Use the Web interface or the command line interface to view the status of the UPS and manage the
Management Card.

For more information about the internal user interfaces, see “Web Interface” on page 28 and
“Command Line Interface” on page 8.

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Access priority for logging on

Only one user at a time can log on to the Management Card. The priority for access, beginning with the
highest priority, is as follows:

• Local access to the command line interface from a computer with a direct serial connection to the
Management Card
• Telnet or SSH access to the command line interface from a remote computer
• Web access, either directly or through InfraStruXure Central
Note: SNMP has Write + and Write access. Write + has top access and enables logging on
when another user is already logged on. Write access is equivalent to Web access.

See “SNMP” on page 61 for information about how SNMP access to the Management
Card is controlled.

Types of user accounts

The Management Card has three levels of access (Administrator, Device User, and Read-Only User),
which are protected by user name and password requirements.

• An Administrator can use all the menus in the Web interface and all of the commands in the
command line interface. The default user name and password are both apc.
• A Device User can access only the following:
– In the Web interface, the menus on the UPS tab and the event and data logs, accessible under
the Events and Data headings on the left navigation menu of the Logs tab.The event and data
logs display no button to clear the log.
– In the command line interface, the equivalent features and options.
The default user name is device, and the default password is apc.
• A Read-Only User has the following restricted access:
– Access through the Web interface only.
– Access to the same tabs and menus as a Device User, but without the capability to delete data
or use file transfer options. The event and data logs display no button to clear the log.
The default user name is readonly, and the default password is apc.
To set User Name and Password values for the three account types, see “Setting
user access” on page 50.

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How to Recover from a Lost Password
You can use a local computer that connects to the Management Card through the serial port to access the
command line interface.

1. Select a serial port at the local computer, and disable any service that uses that port.
2. Connect the provided serial cable (part number 940-0299) to the selected port at the computer
and to the configuration port at the Management Card.
3. Run a terminal program (such as HyperTerminal®) and configure the selected port for 9600 bps,
8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, and no flow control.
4. Press ENTER, repeatedly if necessary, to display the User Name prompt. If you are unable to
display the User Name prompt, verify the following:
– The serial port is not in use by another application.
– The terminal settings are correct as specified in step 3.
– The correct cable is being used as specified in step 2.
5. Press the Reset button. The Status LED will flash alternately orange and green. Press the Reset
button a second time immediately while the LED is flashing to reset the user name and password
to their defaults temporarily.
6. Press ENTER, repeatedly if necessary, to display the User Name prompt again, then use the
default, apc, for the user name and password. (If you take longer than 30 seconds to log on after
the User Name prompt is redisplayed, you must repeat step 5 and log on again.)
7. At the command line interface, use the following commands to change the User Name and
Password settings, both of which are now apc:
user -an yourAdministratorName

user -ap yourAdministratorPassword

For example, to change the Administrator user name to Admin, type:

user -an Admin

8. Type quit or exit to log off, reconnect any serial cable you disconnected, and restart any
service you disabled.

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Front Panel

Features

Item Description

1 USB ports Reserved for future use.

2 Universal I/O sensor port Connects external sensors to the Network Management Card. (

3 Modem port Used for Tele Service Connect (TLS) (MGE Galaxy 300 and MGE Galaxy
7000 only).

4 Modbus connector Connects the Management Card to a Building Management System (BMS)

5 10/100 Base-T connector Connects the Management Card to the Ethernet network.

6 Reset button Resets the Management Card while power remains on.

7 Serial configuration port Connects the Management Card to a local computer to configure initial
network settings or access the command line interface.

8 Link-RX/TX (10/100) LED See “Link-RX/TX (10/100) LED” on page 6.

9 Status LED See “Status LED” on page 6.

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Status LED

This LED indicates the status of the Management Card.

Condition Description

Off One of the following situations exists:

• The Management Card is not receiving input power.
• The Management Card is not operating properly. It may need to be repaired or
replaced. Contact APC Worldwide Customer Support. See “APC Worldwide
Customer Support” on page 96.

Solid green The Management Card has valid TCP/IP settings.

Solid orange A hardware failure has been detected in the Management Card. Contact APC
Worldwide Customer Support. See “APC Worldwide Customer Support” on page 96.

Flashing green The Management Card does not have valid TCP/IP settings.1

Flashing orange The Management Card is making BOOTP requests.1

Alternately flashing If the LED is alternately flashing slowly, the Management Card is making DHCP2
green and orange requests.1

If the LED is alternately flashing rapidly, the Management Card is starting up.
1. If you do not use a BOOTP or DHCP server, see the Network Management Card Installation and Quick Start
Manual provided in printed format and on the Network Management Card Utility CD to configure the
TCP/IP settings of the Management Card manually.
2. To use a DHCP server, see “TCP/IP and Communication Settings” on page 54.

Link-RX/TX (10/100) LED

This LED indicates the network status.

Condition Description

Off One or more of the following situations exist:

• The Management Card is not receiving input power.
• The cable that connects the Management Card to the network is disconnected or defective.
• The device that connects the Management Card to the network is turned off or not
operating correctly.
• The Management Card itself is not operating properly. It may need to be repaired or
replaced. Contact APC Worldwide Customer Support. See “APC Worldwide Customer
Support” on page 96.

Solid green The Management Card is connected to a network operating at 10 Megabits per second
(Mbps).

Solid orange The Management Card is connected to a network operating at 100 Mbps.

Flashing green The Management Card is receiving or transmitting data packets at 10 Mbps.

Flashing orange The Management Card is receiving or transmitting data packets at 100 Mbps.

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Watchdog Features
Overview

To detect internal problems and recover from unanticipated inputs, the Management Card uses internal,
system-wide watchdog mechanisms. When it restarts to recover from an internal problem, a System:
Warmstart event is recorded in the event log.

Network interface watchdog mechanism

The Management Card implements internal watchdog mechanisms to protect itself from becoming
inaccessible over the network. For example, if the Management Card does not receive any network
traffic for 9.5 minutes (either direct traffic, such as SNMP, or broadcast traffic, such as an Address
Resolution Protocol [ARP] request), it assumes that there is a problem with its network interface and
restarts.

Resetting the network timer

To ensure that the Management Card does not restart if the network is quiet for 9.5 minutes, the
Management Card attempts to contact the default gateway every 4.5 minutes. If the gateway is present, it
responds to the Management Card, and that response restarts the 9.5-minute timer. If your application
does not require or have a gateway, specify the IP address of a computer that is running on the network
most of the time and is on the same subnet. The network traffic of that computer will restart the 9.5-
minute timer frequently enough to prevent the Management Card from restarting.

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Command Line Interface
How To Log On
Overview

You can use either a local (serial) connection, or a remote (Telnet or SSH) connection with a computer
on the same network as the Network Management Card to access the command line interface.

Use case-sensitive user name and password entries to log on (by default, apc and apc for an
Administrator, or device and apc for a Device User). A Read-Only User cannot access the command line
interface.

If you cannot remember your user name or password, see “How to Recover from a Lost
Password” on page 4.

Note: The command line interface does not display information about the Symmetra PX 250
or Symmetra PX 500 UPS.

Remote access to the command line interface

You can access the command line interface through Telnet or SSH. Telnet is enabled by default. Enabling
SSH disables Telnet.

To enable or disable these access methods, use the Web interface. On the Administration tab, select
Network on the top menu bar, and then the access option under Console on the left navigation menu.

Telnet for basic access. Telnet provides the basic security of authentication by user name and
password, but not the high-security benefits of encryption.

To use Telnet to access the command line interface:

1. From a computer that has access to network on which the Management Card is installed, at a
command prompt, type telnet and the IP address for the Management Card (for example,
telnet 139.225.6.133, when the Management Card uses the default Telnet port of 23), and
press ENTER.
If the Management Card uses a non-default port number (from 5000 to 32768), you must
include a colon or a space, depending on your Telnet client, between the IP address (or DNS
name) and the port number. (These are commands for general usage: some clients don’t allow
you to specify the port as an argument and some types of Linux might want extra commands).
2. Enter the user name and password (by default, apc and apc for an Administrator, or device and
apc for a Device User).
SSH for high-security access. If you use the high security of SSL for the Web interface, use SSH for
access to the command line interface. SSH encrypts user names, passwords, and transmitted data. The
interface, user accounts, and user access rights are the same whether you access the command line
interface through SSH or Telnet, but to use SSH, you must first configure SSH and have an SSH client
program installed on your computer.

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 Local access to the command line interface. For local access, use a computer that connects to the
Management Card through the serial port to access the command line interface:

1. Select a serial port at the computer and disable any service that uses the port.
2. Connect the provided serial cable (part number 940-0299) from the selected port on the computer
to the configuration port at the Management Card.
3. Run a terminal program (e.g., HyperTerminal), and configure the selected port for 9600 bps, 8
data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, and no flow control.
4. Press ENTER twice. At the prompts, enter your user name and password.

Main Screen
Sample main screen

Following is an example of the screen displayed when you log on to the command line interface at the
Management Card.

American Power Conversion Network Management Card AOS vx.x.x

(c)Copyright 2008 All Rights Reserved Symmetra PX APP vx.x.x
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : Test Lab Date : 03/30/2009
Contact : Don Adams Time : 5:58:30
Location : Building 3 User : Administrator
Up Time : 0 Days, 21 Hours, 21 Minutes Stat : P+ N+ A+

APC>

Information and status fields

Main screen information fields.

• Two fields identify the APC operating system (AOS) and application (APP) firmware versions.
The application firmware name identifies the device that connects to the network through this
Management Card. In the example above, the Management Card uses the application firmware for
a Symmetra PX UPS.
Network Management Card AOS vx.x.x
Symmetra PX APP vx.x.x
• Three fields identify the system name, contact person, and location of the Management Card. (In
the Web interface, select the Administration tab, General in the top menu bar, and
Identification in the left navigation menu to set these values.)
Name : Test Lab
Contact : Don Adams
Location: Building 3
• The Up Time field reports how long the Management Card has been running since it was last
turned on or reset.

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 Up Time: 0 Days 21 Hours 21 Minutes
• Two fields report when you logged in, by date and time.
Date : 03/30/2009
Time : 5:58:30
• The User field reports whether you logged in through the Administrator or Device Manager
account. (The Read Only User account cannot access the command line interface.)
When you log on as Device Manager (equivalent to Device User in the Web interface), you can
access the event log and view the number of active alarms.
User : Administrator
Main screen status fields.

• The Stat field reports the Management Card status.

Stat : P+ N+ A+
P+ The operating system (AOS) is functioning properly.

N+ The network is functioning properly.

N? A BOOTP request cycle is in progress.

N– The Management Card failed to connect to the network.

N! Another device is using the IP address of the Management Card.

A+ The application is functioning properly.

A– The application has a bad checksum.

A? The application is initializing.

A! The application is not compatible with the AOS.

If P+ is not displayed, contact APC Customer Support. See “APC Worldwide Customer
Support” on page 96.

To view the status of the UPS, you must access the Web interface of the Management Card.
For more information, see “Web Interface” on page 28.

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Using the Command Line Interface
Overview

The command line interface provides options to configure the network settings and monitor the
Management Card.

To view the status of the UPS, you must access the Web interface of the Management Card.
For more information, see “Web Interface” on page 28.

Entering commands

At the command line interface, use commands to configure the Management Card. To use a command,
type the command and press ENTER. Commands and arguments are valid in lowercase, uppercase, or
mixed case. Options are case-sensitive.

At the command line interface, you can also use these keyboard shortcuts:

• Type ? and press ENTER to view a list of available commands, based on your account type.
To obtain information about the purpose and syntax of a specified command, type the
command, a space, and ? or the word help. For example, to view RADIUS configuration
options, type:
radius ?

or
radius help
• Press the UP arrow key to view the command that was entered most recently in the session. Use
the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through a list of up to ten previous commands.
• Type at least one letter of a command, then press the TAB key to scroll through a list of valid
commands that match the text you typed in the command line.
• Type exit or quit to close the connection to the command line interface.

Command syntax

Item Description

- Options are preceded by a hyphen.

<> Definitions of options are enclosed in angle brackets. For example:

-dp <device password>

[] If a command accepts multiple options or an option accepts mutually exclusive arguments, the
values may be enclosed in brackets.

| A vertical line between items enclosed in brackets or angle brackets indicates that the items are
mutually exclusive. You must use one of the items.

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Syntax examples
A command that supports multiple options:
user [-an <admin name>] [-ap <admin password>]

In the preceding example, the user command accepts the option -an, which defines the Administrator
user name, and the option -ap, which defines the Administrator password. To change the Administrator
user name and password to XYZ:

1. Type the user command, one option, and the argument XYZ:
user -ap XYZ
2. After the first command succeeds, type the user command, the second option, and the argument
XYZ:
user -an XYZ
A command that accepts mutually exclusive arguments for an option:
alarmcount -p [all | warning | critical]

In the preceding example, the option -p accepts only three arguments: all, warning, or critical.
For example, to view the number of active critical alarms, type:
alarmcount -p critical

The command will fail if you type an argument that is not specified.

Command Response Codes

The command response codes enable scripted operations to detect error conditions reliably without
having to match error message text.

The CLI reports all command operations with the following format:

E [0–9][0–9][0–9]: Error message

Code Error message

E000 Success

E100 Command failed

E101 Command not found

E102 Reserved

E103 Reserved

E104 Reserved

E200 Reserved

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Command Descriptions
?
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: View a list of all the CLI commands available to your account type. To view help text for
a specific command, type the command followed by a question mark.

Example: To view a list of options that are accepted by the alarmcount command, type:

alarmcount ?

about
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: View hardware and firmware information. This information is useful in troubleshooting
and enables you to determine if updated firmware is available at the APC Web site, www.apc.com/tools/
download.

alarmcount
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description:

Option Arguments Description

-p all View the number of active alarms reported by the Management Card.
Information about the alarms is provided in the event log.

warning View the number of active warning alarms.

critical View the number of active critical alarms.

Example: To view all active warning alarms, type:

alarmcount -p warning

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boot
Access: Administrator only

Description: Define how the Management Card will obtain its network settings, including the IP
address, subnet mask, and default gateway. Then configure the BOOTP or DHCP server settings.

Option Argument Description

-b dhcp | bootp | manual Define how the TCP/IP settings will be configured when the
<boot Management Card turns on, resets, or restarts. The default setting is
mode> dhcp. See “TCP/IP and Communication Settings” on page 54 for
information about each boot mode setting.

-c enable | disable dhcp boot mode only. Enable or disable the requirement that the
DHCP server provide the APC cookie.

The default values for these three settings generally do not need to be changed:
-v <vendor class>: APC
-i <client id>: The MAC address of the Network Management Card, which uniquely identifies it on the
local area network (LAN)
-u <user class>: The name of the application firmware module

Example: To use a DHCP server to obtain network settings:

1. Define the boot mode setting.

boot -b dhcp
2. Enable the requirement that the DHCP server provide the APC cookie.
boot -c enable

cd
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: Navigate to a folder in the directory structure of the Network Management Card.

Example 1: To change to the ssh folder and confirm that an SSH security certificate was uploaded to
the Management Card:

1. Type cd ssh and press ENTER.

2. Type dir and press ENTER to list the files stored in the SSH folder.
Example 2: To return to the main directory folder, type:

cd ..

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console
Access: Administrator only

Description: Define whether users can access the command line interface using Telnet, which is
enabled by default, or Secure SHell (SSH), which provides protection by transmitting user names,
passwords, and data in encrypted form. You can change the Telnet or SSH port setting for additional
security. Alternately, disable network access to the command line interface.

Option Argument Description

-S disable | telnet | ssh Configure access to the command line interface, or use the disable
command to prevent access.. Enabling SSH enables SCP and disables
Telnet.

-pt <telnet port n> Define the Telnet port used to communicate with the Management Card (23
by default).

-ps <SSH port n> Define the SSH port used to communicate with the Management Card (22 by
default).

-b 2400 | 9600 | Configure the speed of the serial port connection (9600 bps by default).
19200 | 38400

Example 1: To enable SSH access to the command line interface, type:

console -S ssh

Example 2: To change the Telnet port to 5000, type:

console -pt 5000

date
Access: Administrator only

Definition: To configure an NTP server to define the date and time for the Management Card, see “Set
the Date and Time” on page 72.

Option Argument Description

-d <“datestring”> Configure the date used by the Management Card. Use the date format specified
by the date -f command.

-t <00:00:00> Configure the current time, in hours, minutes, and seconds. Use the 24-hour
clock format.

-f mm/dd/yy | Select the format in which to display all dates in this user interface. Each letter
dd.mm.yyyy | m (for month), d (for day), and y (for year) represents one digit. Single-digit
mmm-dd-yy | days and months are displayed with a leading zero. The format mmm represents a
dd-mmm-yy | three-letter month name.
yyyy-mm-dd

-z <time zone Set the difference with GMT in order to specify your time zone. This enables
offset> you to synchonize with other people in different time zones.

Example 1: To display the date using the format yyyy-mm-dd, type:

date -f yyyy-mm-dd

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 Example 2: To define the date as October 30, 2010, using the format configured in the preceding
example, type:

date -d “2010-10-30”

Example 3: To define the time as 5:21:03 p.m., type:

date -t 17:21:03

delete
Access: Administrator only

Description: Delete the event or data log, or delete a file in the file system.

Argument Description

<file name> Type the name of the file to delete.

Example:

1. Navigate to the folder that contains the file to delete. For example, to delete the event log, type
this command to navigate to the logs folder:
cd logs
2. To view the files in the logs folder, type:
dir

The file event.txt is listed.

3. Type delete event.txt.

dir
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: View the files and folders stored on the Management Card.

dns
Access: Administrator

Description: Configure the manual Domain Name System (DNS) settings.

Parameter Argument Description

-OM enable | disable Override the manual DNS.

-p <primary DNS server> Set the primary DNS server.
-s <secondary DNS server> Set the secondary DNS server.
-d <domain name> Set the domain name.
-n <domain name IPv6> Set the domain name IPv6.
-h <host name> Set the host name.

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eventlog
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: View the date and time you retrieved the event log, the status of the UPS, and the status of
sensors connected to the Management Card. View the most recent device events, and the date and time
they occurred. Use the following keys to navigate the event log:

Key Description

ESC Close the event log and return to the command line interface.
ENTER Update the log. Use this command to view events that were recorded after you last retrieved the
log.
SPACEBAR View the next page of the event log.

B View the preceding page of the event log. This command is not available at the main page of the
event log.

D Delete the event log. Follow the prompts to confirm or deny the deletion. Deleted events cannot
be retrieved.

exit
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: Exit from the command line interface session.

format
Access: Administrator only

Description: Reformat the file system of the Management Card and erase all security certificates,
encryption keys, configuration settings, and the event and data logs.

Warning: Use caution when issuing the format command. This command reformats the file
system of the Management Card, deleting all security certificates, encryption keys,
configuration settings, and the event and data logs.

Note: To reset the Management Card to its default configuration, use the resetToDef
command.

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ftp
Access: Administrator only

Description: Enable or disable access to the FTP server. Optionally, change the port setting to the
number of any unused port from 5001 to 32768 for added security.

Option Argument Definition

-p <port number> Define the TCP/IP port that the FTP server uses to communicate with the
Management Card (21 by default). The FTP server uses both the specified
port and the port one number lower than the specified port.

-S enable | disable Configure access to the FTP server.

Example: To change the TCP/IP port to 5001, type:

ftp -p 5001

help
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: View a list of all the CLI commands available to your account type. To view help text for
a specific command, type the command followed by the help command: user help

Example 1: To view a list of commands available to a Device User, type:

help

Example 2: To view a list of options that are accepted by the alarmcount command, type:

alarmcount ?

modbus
Access: Administrator only

Description: Manually configure these Modbus settings for the Management Card:

Option Argument Description

-p Display the configured Modbus parameters.

-a enable | disable Enable or disable the Modbus feature.

-br 9600 | 19200 Set the baud rate.

-pr even | odd | none Set the parity bit.

-s <slave # in hex> Set the Modbus slave address.

-o master | slave Define the mode of operation for the Modbus feature. (MGE Galaxy
models only)

-rt <timeout in mSec> Set the response timeout in milliseconds for query packets in Master
mode. (MGE Galaxy models only)

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 Option Argument Description

-sr <scan rate in mSec> Set the scan rate for query packets in Master mode. (MGE Galaxy
models only)

-rep <# of repetitions> Set the number of repetitions for query packets in Master mode. (MGE
Galaxy models only)

-ResetToDef Reset the modbus settings to their default values.

netstat
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: View the status of the network and all active IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

ntp
Access: Administrator

Description: View and configure the network time protocol parameters.

Option Argument Definition

-OM enable | disable Override the manual settings.

-p <primary NTP server> Specify the primary server.

-s <secondary NTP server> Specify the secondary server.

Example 1: To enable the override of manual setting, type:

ntp -OM enable

Example 2: To specify the primary NTP server, type:

ntp -p 150.250.6.10

ping
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: Determine whether the device with the IP address or DNS name you specify is connected
to the network. Four inquiries are sent to the address.

Argument Description

<IP address or DNS name> Type an IP address with the format xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, or the DNS
name configured by the DNS server.

Example: To determine whether a device with an IP address of 150.250.6.10 is connected to the

network, type:

ping 150.250.6.10

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portSpeed
Access: Administrator

Description:
Option Arguments Description

-s auto | 10H | 10F | Define the communication speed of the Ethernet port. The auto command
100H | 100F enables the Ethernet devices to negotiate to transmit at the highest possible
speed. See “Port Speed” on page 57 for more information about the port speed
settings.

Example: To configure the TCP/IP port to communicate using 100 Mbps with half-duplex
communication (communication in only one direction at a time), type:

portspeed -s 100H

prompt
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: Configure the command line interface prompt to include or exclude the account type of
the currently logged-in user. Any user can change this setting; all user accounts will be updated to use the
new setting.

Option Argument Description

-s long The prompt includes the account type of the currently logged-in user.

short The default setting. The prompt is four characters long: APC>

Example: To include the account type of the currently logged-in user in the command prompt, type:

prompt -s long

quit
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: Exit from the command line interface session.

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radius
Access: Administrator only

Description: View the existing RADIUS settings, enable or disable RADIUS authentication, and
configure basic authentication parameters for up to two RADIUS servers.

For a summary of RADIUS server configuration and a list of supported RADIUS servers, see
“Configuring the RADIUS Server” on page 52.

Additional authentication parameters for RADIUS servers are available at the Web interface
of the Management Card. See “RADIUS” on page 51 for more information.

For detailed information about configuring your RADIUS server, see the Security Handbook,
available on the Network Management Card Utility CD and at the APC Web site,
www.apc.com.

Option Argument Description

-a local | Configure RADIUS authentication:

radiusLocal | • local—RADIUS is disabled. Local authentication is enabled.
radius • radiusLocal—RADIUS, then Local Authentication. RADIUS and local
authentication are enabled. Authentication is requested from the RADIUS
server first. If the RADIUS server fails to respond, local authentication is used.
• radius—RADIUS is enabled. Local authentication is disabled.

-p1 <server IP> The server name or IP address of the primary or secondary RADIUS server.
-p2
NOTE: RADIUS servers use port 1812 by default to authenticate users. To use a
different port, add a colon followed by the new port number to the end of the
RADIUS server name or IP address.

-s1 <server The shared secret between the primary or secondary RADIUS server and the
-s2 secret> Management Card.

-t1 <server The time in seconds that the Management Card waits for a response from the
-t2 timeout> primary or secondary RADIUS server.

Example 1: To view the existing RADIUS settings for the Management Card, type radius and press
ENTER.

Example 2: To enable RADIUS and local authentication, type:

radius -a radiusLocal

Example 3: To configure a 10-second timeout for a secondary RADIUS server, type:

radius -t2 10

reboot
Access: Administrator

Description: Resets the Management Card.

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resetToDef
Access: Administrator only

Description:

Option Arguments Description

-p all | keepip Reset all configuration changes, including event actions and, optionally, TCP/IP
configuration settings.

Example: To reset all of the configuration changes except the TCP/IP settings for the Management
Card, type:

resetToDef -p keepip

snmp, snmp3
Access: Administrator only

Description: Enable or disable SNMP 1 or SNMP 3.

Option Arguments Description

-S enable | disable Enable or display the respective version of SNMP, 1 or 3.

Example: To enable SNMP version 1, type:

snmp -S enable

system
Access: Administrator only

Description:

Option Argument Description

-n <system name> Define the device name, the name of the person responsible for the device,
and the physical location of the device. These values are also used by
-c <system contact> InfraStruxure Central and the Management Card’s SNMP agent.
-l <system location> NOTE: If you define a value with more than one word, you must enclose the
value in quotation marks.

Example 1: To configure the device location as Test Lab, type:

system -l “Test Lab”

Example 2: To configure the system name as Don Adams, type:

system -n “Don Adams”

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tcpip
Access: Administrator only

Description: Manually configure these network settings for the Management Card:

Option Argument Description

-S enable | disable Enable or disable TCP/IP..

-i <IP address> Type the IP address of the Management Card, using the format
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

-s <subnet mask> Type the subnet mask for the Management Card.

-g <gateway> Type the IP address of the default gateway. Do not use the loopback
address (127.0.0.1) as the default gateway.

-d <domain name> Type the DNS name configured by the DNS server.

-h <host name> Type the host name that the Management Card will use.

Example 1: To view the network settings of the Management Card, type tcpip and press ENTER.

Example 2: To manually configure an IP address of 150.250.6.10 for the Management Card, type:

tcpip -i 150.250.6.10

tcpip6
Access: Administrator only

Description: Enable IPv6 and view and manually configure these network settings for the Management
Card:

Option Argument Description

-S enable | disable Enable or disable IPv6.

-man enable | disable Enable manual adressing for the IPv6 address of the Management Card.

-auto enable | disable Enable the Management Card to automatically configure the IPv6 address.

-i <IPv6 address> Set the IPv6 address of the Management Card.

-g <IPv6 gateway> Set the IPv6 address of the default gateway.

-d6 router | statefull | Set the DHCPv6 mode, with parameters of router controlled, statefull (for
stateless | never address and other information, they maintain their status), stateless (for
information other than address, the status is not maintained ), never.

Example 1: To view the network settings of the Management Card, type tcpip6 and press ENTER.

Example 2: To manually configure an IPv6 address of 2001:0:0:0:0:FFD3:0:57ab for the Management

Card, type:
tcpip -i 2001:0:0:0:0:FFD3:0:57ab

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tls
Access: Administrator only

Description: Manually configure the TLS settings for the Management Card. TLS is an optional remote
monitoring service available on the MGE Galaxy 300 and MGE Galaxy 7000 UPS systems.:

Option Argument Description

-p Display the configured parameters for the tls command

-a enable | disable Enable or disable the TLS feature.

-m <slave number in hex> Identify the valid alarms that cause an alert to be sent to the TLS
service.

<call cause mask in

hex>

-t <primary | secondary> Determine what primary or secondary number to call to establish a

TLS connection. The telephone number should be configured with
<telephone#> country code, area code, and number. Only used for master
configuration - a slave UPS can store the information, but it will not
be used.

-si <# of connected UPS> Store the number of UPS systems connected to the Master system,
and the slave IDs of each connected UPS in hexadecimal format.
<slave ID1 in hex>
<slave ID2 in hex>
<slave ID3 in hex>...

-id <slave ID in hex> Store the slave ID of the UPS in hexadecimal format.

<id> Five character unique ID of the UPS.

-d <delay in seconds> Specify delay before second connection if first attempt is

unsuccessful.

-test <appearance | Create a test alarm. Only alarms specified by the Call Cause mask
disappearance> will be raised.

<bit position> Specify the bit position (0 - 15) that will be set in the appearance
and disappearance register.

-initstr <apc | mge | any other Set the modem INIT string.
string>

-dialstr <apc | mge | any other Set the modem DIAL string.
string>

-ResetToDef Restore the default settings for the TLS feature.

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uio
Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: This command is available for an AP9631 and AP9635 Network Management Card with a
connected Dry Contact I/O Accessory (AP9810).

Option Argument Description

-rc <UIO port #> open | close Change the state of a connected output, and specify the UIO
(universal input/ output) port number.
-st <UIO port #> | View the status of the sensors connected to the Dry Contact
<UIO port #>, I/O Accessory. To view the status of a specific sensor or
<UIO port #> | several sensors, type their UIO port numbers.
<UIO port #>–<UIO port #>
-disc <UIO port #> | Identify new input contact or output relay connections.
<UIO port #>,
<UIO port #> |
<UIO port #>–<UIO port #>

Example 1: To open the output, type:

uio -rc 2 open

Example 2: To view the status of the devices connected to a Dry Contact I/O Accessory that is installed in
universal input/ output port 2, type:
uio -st 2

ups

|
Note: Command is only available on the MGE Galaxy 300 and MGE Galaxy 7000 UPS.
Some options may only be available based on the individual UPS model.

Access: Administrator, Device User

Description: View UPS status information.

Option Argument Description

-input <phase#> | all Display the input measurements for the chosen phase of the UPS.
Typing “all” displays the information for all phases of the UPS.

voltage | current | Specify the input measurement for the ups command.
frequency | all Example: ups -input 2 frequency
Displays the frequency for phase 2 of the UPS.

-bypass <phase#> | all Display the input measurements for the chosen phase of the bypass
main. Typing “all” displays all phases of the bypass main.

voltage | current | Specify the input measurement for the ups command.
frequency | all Example: ups -bypass 2 current
Displays the current for phase 2 of the bypass main.

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 Option Argument Description

-output <phase#> | all Display the output measurements for the chosen phase of the UPS.
Typing “all” displays the information for all phases of the UPS.

voltage | current | load | Specify the output measurement for the ups command.
power | percload | pf | Example: ups -output 2 percload
frequency | all Displays the percentage of load for phase 2 of the UPS.

-batt Display the battery status of the UPS

-about Displays information about the UPS.

-al <c | w> Display all existing alarms. Specifying “c” or “w” limits the display to
either Critical (c) or Warning (w) alarms.

user
Access: Administrator only

Description: Configure the user name and password for each account type, and configure the inactivity
timeout.

For information on the permissions granted to each account type (Administrator, Device
User, and Read-Only User), see “Types of user accounts” on page 3.

Option Argument Description

-an <admin name> Set the case-sensitive user name for each account type. The maximum
-dn <device name> length is 10 characters.
-rn <read-only name>

-ap <admin password> Set the case-sensitive password for each account type. The maximum
-dp <device password> length is 32 characters. Blank passwords (passwords with no
-rp <read-only password> characters) are not allowed.

-t <minutes> Configure the time (3 minutes by default) that the system waits before
logging off an inactive user.

Example: To change the Administrator user name to XYZ, type:

user -an XYZ

To change the Administrator password to XYZ, type:

user -ap XYZ

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web
Access: Administrator

Description: Enable access to the Web interface using HTTP or HTTPS.

For additional security, you can change the port setting for HTTP and HTTPS to any unused port from
5000 to 32768.

Option Argument Definition

-S disable | http | https Configure access to the Web interface. When HTTPS is enabled, data is
encrypted during transmission and authenticated by digital certificate.

-ph <http port #> Define the TCP/IP port used by HTTP to communicate with the
Management Card (80 by default).

-ps <https port #> Define the TCP/IP port used by HTTPS to communicate with the
Management Card (443 by default).

Example: To prevent all access to the Web interface, type:

web -S disable

xferINI
Access: Administrator only

Description: Use XMODEM to upload an .ini file while you are accessing the command line interface
through a serial connection. After the upload completes:

• If there are any system or network changes, the command line interface restarts, and you must log
in again.
• If you selected a baud rate for the file transfer that is not the same as the default baud rate for the
the Management Card, you must reset the baud rate to the default to reestablish communication
with the Management Card.

xferStatus
Access: Administrator only

Description: View the result of the last file transfer.

See “Use a USB drive to transfer the files” on page 87 for descriptions of the transfer result
codes.

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Web Interface
Introduction
Overview

The Web interface provides options to manage the Management Card and view the status of its UPS.

See “Web” on page 59 for information on how to select, enable, and disable the protocols that
control access to the Web interface and to define the Web-server ports for the protocols.

Note: All UPS settings and alarm thresholds must be configured at the user interface display
of the UPS.

Supported Web browsers

You can use Microsoft® Internet Explorer® (IE) 7.x or higher (on Windows® operating systems only) or
Mozilla® Firefox® 3.0.6 or higher (on all operating systems) to access the Management Card through its
Web interface. Other commonly available browsers may work but have not been fully tested by
American Power Conversion.

The Management Card cannot work with a proxy server. Before you can use a Web browser to access the
Web interface of the Management Card, you must do one of the following:

• Configure the Web browser to disable the use of a proxy server for the Management Card.
• Configure the proxy server so that it does not proxy the specific IP address of the Management
Card.

How to Log On
Overview

You can use the DNS name or System IP address of the Management Card for the URL address of the
Web interface. Use your case-sensitive user name and password to log on. The default user name differs
by account type:

• apc for an Administrator

• device for a Device User
• readonly for a Read-Only User
The default password is apc for all three account types.

Note: If you are using HTTPS (SSL/TLS) as your access protocol, your login credentials are
compared with information in a server certificate. If the certificate was created with the
Security Wizard, and an IP address was specified as the common name in the certificate, you
must use an IP address to log on to the Management Card. If a DNS name was specified as
the common name on the certificate, you must use a DNS name to log on.

For information about the Web page displayed when you log on, see “Home Page” on
page 30.

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URL address formats

Type the DNS name or IP address of the Management Card in the Web browser’s URL address field and
press ENTER. When you specify a non-default Web server port in Internet Explorer, you must include
http:// or https:// in the URL.

Common browser error messages at log-on.

Error Message Browser Cause of the Error

“You are not authorized to view this page” or “Someone is Internet Explorer, Someone else is
currently logged in...” Firefox logged on.

“This page cannot be displayed.” Internet Explorer Web access is

disabled, or the URL
“Unable to connect.” Firefox was not correct

URL format examples.

• For a DNS name of Web1:

– http://Web1 if HTTP is your access mode
– https://Web1 if HTTPS (HTTP with SSL) is your access mode
• For a System IP address of 139.225.6.133 and the default Web server port (80):
– http://139.225.6.133 if HTTP is your access mode
– https://139.225.6.133 if HTTPS (HTTP with SSL) is your access mode
• For a System IP address of 139.225.6.133 and a non-default Web server port (5000):
– http://139.225.6.133:5000 if HTTP is your access mode
– https://139.225.6.133:5000 if HTTPS (HTTP with SSL) is your access mode.

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Home Page
Overview

On the Home page of the interface, displayed when you log on, you can view active alarm conditions
and the most recent events recorded in the event log.

Quick status icons

One or more icons and accompanying text indicate the current operating status of the UPS:

Icon Description

Critical: A critical alarm exists, which requires immediate action.

Warning: An alarm condition requires attention and could jeopardize your data or
equipment if its cause is not addressed.

No Alarms: No alarms are present, and the UPS and Management Card are operating
normally.

At the upper right corner of every page, the Web interface displays the same icons currently displayed on
the Home page to report UPS Status:

• The No Alarms icon if no alarms exist.

• One or both of the other icons (Critical and Warning) if any alarms exist, and after each icon, the
number of active alarms of that severity.
To return to the Home page to view its summary of UPS status, including the active alarms, click a quick
status icon on any page of the interface.

Recent Device Events

On the Home page, Recent Device Events displays, in reverse chronological order, the events that
occurred most recently and the dates and times they occurred. Click More Events to view the entire
event log.

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How to Use the Tabs, Menus, and Links
Tabs

In addition to the tab for the Home page, the following tabs are displayed. Click a tab to display a set of
menu options:

• UPS: Display UPS status, configure PowerChute Network Shutdown, and view information
about the UPS.
• Sensor: View and configure temperature sensor data. (Only present if a Dry Contact Sensor
(AP9810), Temperature Sensor (AP9335T), or Temperature and Humidity Sensor (AP9335TH) is
connected.)
• Logs: View and configure event and data logs.
• Administration: Configure security, network connection, notification, and general settings.

Menus
Left navigation menu. Each tab (except the tab for the home page) has a left navigation menu,
consisting of headings and options:

• If a heading has indented option names below it, the heading itself is not a navigational link. Click
an option to display or configure parameters.
• If a heading has no indented option names, the heading itself is the navigational link. Click the
heading to display or configure parameters.
Top menu bar. The Administration tab has a selection of menu options on the top menu bar. Select
one of the menu options to display its left navigation menu.

Quick Links

At the lower left on each page of the interface, there are three configurable links. By default, the links
access the URLs for these Web pages:

• Link 1: The home page of the APC Web site

• Link 2: Demonstrations of American Power Conversion Web-enabled products
• Link 3: Information on Remote Monitoring Services

To reconfigure the links, see “Configure Links” on page 75.

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Monitor the UPS and Configure Shutdowns
Overview Page
The Overview page is displayed by default when you click the UPS tab or when you click Overview on
the left navigation menu of that tab.

Operating state
Below the UPS model name, icons and accompanying text indicate the operating state of the UPS:

Operating State Icon Description

Online No alarms present.

In an alarm state Warning: An alarm condition requires attention and could

(Accompanying text jeopardize your data or equipment if its cause is not addressed.
names the alarm
condition and gives a
brief description of the
alarm.) Critical: A critical alarm exists, which requires immediate
action to avoid data loss or equipment damage.

Quick Status
The following information is displayed.

• In graphs:
– Load in Watts: A graph showing the load of the attached equipment as a percentage of
available Watts.
|Note: On the MGE Galaxy 300 and MGE Galaxy 7000 UPS, the title of the graph
is Load.

– Battery Capacity: A graph showing the percentage of the total UPS battery capacity available
to support attached equipment.

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 • In a list:
– Input Voltage: The AC voltage (VAC) being received by each phase of the UPS.
– Output Voltage: The AC voltage (VAC) each phase of the UPS is providing to its load.
– Ambient Temperature: The highest internal temperature reported by the power modules in
the UPS. (Symmetra models only)
– Runtime Remaining: How long the UPS can use battery power to support its attached
equipment.
– Module Redundancy: The number of power modules which can fail or be removed without
causing the Symmetra PX UPS to switch to bypass operation. For example, with n+2
redundancy, two power modules could fail or be removed without causing the UPS to enter
bypass mode. (Symmetra models only)
– System Redundancy: (applicable for Parallel configurations only) This displays the number
of backup or redundant UPS devices set up on your parallel system. For example, n+0
indicates that there is no redundant UPS power, n+1 indicates that there is one UPS for
redundant power, etc. When the load on your system starts using some of the redundant power,
the system generates an alarm.
– Last Battery Transfer: The cause of the last switch to battery operation.

Recent UPS Events

The most recent UPS events that occurred are listed in reverse chronological order. To view the entire
event log, click More Events.

Status Page
To display detailed UPS status, click an option under the Status heading on the left navigation menu of
the UPS tab.

Model-specific status displayed

To view detailed information about status items specific to the UPS model associated with the
Management Card, click the Help link in the upper right corner of the user interface.

The types of model-specific information displayed include the following values, some of which are
reported by phase for 3-phase UPS models:

• Internal Temperature—The temperature inside the UPS

• Voltage, Current, and Frequency information, such as input and output voltage, input and
output current, input frequency, input voltage in bypass mode, and minimum and maximum input
voltage during the last minute.
• UPS Load information, such as the load placed on the UPS in kVA or as a percentage of
available kVA or Watts.
• Fault Tolerance information, such as redundant power available.
• Battery information, such as available battery capacity, percentage of full battery capacity,
battery output current, rated voltage capacity of batteries, amp-hour rating of battery cabinets,
number of batteries installed, and number of faulty batteries.
• Status of internal and external components, such as intelligence and power modules, circuit
breaker box, external switch gear, and transformer.

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The PowerChute Option
The PowerChute option, available in the left navigation menu of the UPS tab, enables you to use the
PowerChute Network Shutdown utility to shut down a maximum of 50 servers on the network that use a
client version of the utility.

See these HTML files and flowcharts on the Management Card Utility CD:

• PowerChute Network Shutdown Installation Guide in the \pcns folder

• PowerChute Network Shutdown Release Notes in the \pcns folder
• PCNS Shutdown Behavior.pdf, PCNS Low-Battery Shutdown Behavior.pdf, and PCNS
Maximum Shutdown Time Negotiation.pdf in the \trouble folder

PowerChute Network Shutdown clients

The PowerChute Network Shutdown software must be installed on each client you add.

Click Add Client for a field in which to enter the IP address of a new PowerChute Network Shutdown
client. The list can contain the IP addresses of up to 50 clients.

To delete a client, click the IP address of that client in the list, and then click Delete Client.

Note: When you install a PowerChute Network Shutdown client on your network, it is added
to the list automatically, and when you uninstall a PowerChute Network Shutdown client, it is
removed from the list automatically.

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PowerChute Network Shutdown configuration parameters

Parameter Description

Maximum Required Displays the delay required to ensure that each PowerChute client has enough time
Delay to shut down safely when the UPS or the PowerChute client initiates a graceful
shutdown.

When Force Negotiation is selected, the Network Management Card polls each
server listed as a PowerChute Network Shutdown client for information on the time
it needs for a graceful shutdown. This delay is recalculated whenever the
management interface of the UPS turns on or is reset. (This option is not available
for the Galaxy 300 or Galaxy 7000 UPS devices.)

Maximum Required Delay is the longest shutdown delay needed by any server on
the list, plus two additional minutes to allow for unforeseen circumstances. The
negotiation can take up to 10 minutes.

If you do not select Force Negotiation, two minutes is used by default as the
shutdown delay for all clients.

On-Battery Shutdown After the PowerChute Network Shutdown clients shut down their computer
Behavior systems, this parameter determines whether the UPS turns on automatically or must
be turned on manually when input power is restored.

Note: This option is not available on the MGE Galaxy 300 or MGE Galaxy 7000
UPS.

Authentication Phrase The case-sensitive phrase of 15 to 32 ASCII characters to be used during MD5
authentication for PowerChute communication. The default Administrator setting is
admin user phrase.

Note: By default, the PowerChute clients initiate a graceful shutdown when the UPS has 120
seconds of runtime remaining. If the servers need additional time to shut down safely,
configure the Low battery alarm threshold setting at the user interface display of the
Symmetra PX 250 or Symmetra PX 500 UPS. From the UPS System screen on the user
interface display, select User Configuration, then Alarm Settings. The valid range for the
Low battery alarm threshold is 0 (no shutdown will occur) to 3600 seconds (1 hour).

For MGE Galaxy models, you must use the UPS Tuner to set the shutdown time.

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The About Option
This option provides the following information about the UPS:

• Model: The model name of the UPS.

• Serial Number: The unique identification number of the UPS, also provided on the UPS.
• Firmware Revision: The revision numbers of the firmware modules installed on the UPS
• Manufacture Date: The date on which the manufacturing of this UPS was completed. (Symmetra
models only)

In addtion to the information listed above, the MGE Galaxy 300 and MGE Galaxy 7000 UPS systems
report the following information:

• Product Name: The brand name of the UPS

• Technical Level: The revision numbers of the firmware modules currently installed on the UPS.
• Country: The country where the UPS is located. (MGE Galaxy 7000 only)
• Manufacturer Name: The manufacturer of the UPS.
• UPS Time: The local time at the location of the UPS.

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Environmental Monitoring
Note: If you install a Dry Contact I/O Accessory, AP9810, at your Network Management
Card, the Environment tab displays two top menu bar options, Universal I/O and
Environment. Except where noted, the settings described in this chapter are available for
both options.

Overview Page
The Overview page lists the status of environmental monitoring devices associated with the AP9635
Network Management Card on a Symmetra-series or MGE Galaxy UPS.

Note: The AP9635 can only have one universal sensor attached at a time. Depending on
which sensor is attached, a subset of the following headings will be displayed.

Heading Displayed Information

Temperature Lists all sensors and, for each sensor, the alarm status, temperature currently recorded, and
and Humidity humidity (if supported) currently recorded. For detailed status or to reconfigure a sensor's
parameters, click the sensor's name.

Input Contacts Lists each enabled input contact and its alarm status and current state (open or closed). For
detailed status of an enabled input contact or to reconfigure that contact's parameters, click
the name of the contact.

Note: To view or configure the parameters of a disabled contact, or to enable it, you must
access the interface page for that contact through Input Contacts on the left navigation
menu

Output Relay Lists the alarm status and the current state (open or closed) of the output relay of the
integrated Environmental Monitor. For detailed status of that output relay or to reconfigure
its parameters, click its name.

Recent The Recent Environmental Events field lists, in reverse chronological order, the most
Environmental recent environmental events. To view the entire event log, click More Events at the lower
Events right.

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Temperature and Humidity Page
Brief status

Click Temp & Humidity on the left navigation menu to display the name, alarm status, temperature, and
humidity (if supported) for each sensor.

Detailed status and configuration

Click the name of a sensor for detailed alarm status or to configure its values:

Identification and alarm status.

Parameter Description

Name A name for this sensor. Maximum: 20 characters.

Location This physical location of the sensor. Maximum: 20 characters.

Alarm One of the following is displayed:

Status • Normal if this sensor is not reporting an alarm condition.
• If this sensor is in an alarm state, the text of the alarm, indicating which threshold is violated,
and the severity of the alarm, indicated by color (red for critical, orange for warning).

Thresholds See the next two sections for descriptions of the configurable thresholds and Hysteresis values.

Thresholds. For each sensor, you set the same types of thresholds for temperature and (if supported)
humidity measured at the sensor.

Threshold Description

Maximum If the threshold for maximum temperature or for maximum humidity for the sensor is
exceeded, an alarm occurs.

High If the threshold for high temperature or for high humidity for the sensor is exceeded, an alarm
occurs.

Low If the temperature or humidity drops below its low threshold for the sensor, an alarm occurs.

Minimum If the temperature or humidity drops below its minimum threshold for the sensor, an alarm
occurs.

Hysteresis. This value specifies how far past a threshold the temperature or humidity must return to
clear a threshold violation.

• For Maximum and High threshold violations, the clearing point is the threshold minus the
hysteresis.
• For Minimum and Low threshold violations, the clearing point is the threshold plus the hysteresis.
Increase the value for Temperature Hysteresis or Humidity Hysteresis to avoid multiple alarms if
temperature or humidity that has caused a violation then wavers slightly up and down. If the hysteresis
value is too low, such wavering can cause and clear a threshold violation repeatedly.

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 Example of falling but wavering temperature: The minimum temperature threshold is 55°F, and the
temperature hysteresis is 3°F. The temperature drops below 55°F, violating the threshold. It then wavers
up to 56°F and then down to 53°F repeatedly, but no clearing event and no new violation occur. For the
existing violation to clear, the temperature would have to rise above 58°F (3°F past the threshold).

Example of rising but wavering humidity: The maximum humidity threshold is 65%, and the
humidity hysteresis is 10%. The humidity rises above 65%, violating the threshold. It then wavers down
to 60% and up to 70% repeatedly, but no clearing event and no new violation occur. For the existing
violation to clear, the humidity would have to drop below 55% (10% past the threshold).

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Input Contacts Page
Brief status

Click Input Contacts on the left navigation menu to display the name, alarm status, and state (open or
closed) of each input contact.

Detailed status and configuration

Click the name of an input contact for detailed status or to configure its values:

Parameter Description

Input Contact Enable or disable this input contact. When disabled, the contact generates no alarm even when
it is in the abnormal position

Name A name for this input contact. Maximum: 20 characters.

Location The location of this input contact. Maximum: 20 characters.

Alarm Status Normal if this input contact is not reporting an alarm, or the severity of the alarm, if this input
contact is reporting an alarm

State The current state of this input contact: Closed or Open.

Normal State The normal (non-alarm) state of this input contact: Closed or Open.

Severity The severity of the alarm that the abnormal state of this input contact generates: Warning or
Critical.

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Output Relay Page
This option is only available for devices with installed Dry Contact I/O Accessories. Select the
Environment tab, then Universal I/O from the top menu bar. Click Output Relay to display the status of
the output relay and configure its values.

Parameter Description

Name A name for this output relay. Maximum: 20 characters.

Location The location of this output relay. Maximum: 20 characters.

Alarm Status Normal if this output relay is not reporting an alarm, or the severity of the alarm if this
output relay is reporting an alarm.

State The current state of this output relay: Closed or Open.

Normal State The normal (non-alarm) state of this output relay: Closed or Open.

Control To change the current state of this output relay, check-mark the setting.

Delay The number of seconds a selected alarm condition must exist before the output relay is
activated. Use this setting to avoid activating an alarm for brief transient conditions.

NOTE: Even if additional mapped alarms occur after the delay begins, the delay does not
restart but continues until the output relay is activated.

Hold The minimum number of seconds the output relay remains activated after the alarm occurs.
Even if the activating alarm condition is corrected, the output relay remains activated until
this time period expires.

About Page
Click About on the left navigation menu of the top menu bar option Environment to display what
environmental monitoring devices are in use with this UPS and their firmware versions.

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Configuring the Control Policy
For an AP9631 Network Management Card with up to two connected Dry Contact I/O Accessories
(AP9810), you can configure its outputs to respond to events, and you can configure the UPS and outputs
to respond to input alarms.

Configuring an output to respond to an event

1. Select the UPS tab, Control Policy in the top menu bar, and by event under Event Actions on
the left navigation menu.
2. Click a category name to view all of the events in the category, or click a sub-category name to
view the events in that sub-category.
3. In the list of events, review the marked columns to see whether the required event is already
configured to change the state of the output relay.
4. To change the current configuration, click the event name, select the output relay that will change
state when this event is detected, and click Apply.

Configuring the UPS or output to respond to an input alarm

1. Select the UPS tab, Control Policy in the top menu bar, and by event under Event Actions on
the left navigation menu.
2. Click I/O Contact, then click the name of the event to configure.
3. The Management Card supports up to four inputs. You must specify the input that will be
associated with this event.
a. In the Port drop-down list, select the Universal Sensor Port number (1 or 2) to which the
Dry Contact I/O Accessory is installed.
b. In the Zone drop-down list, select the zone letter (A or B) of the contact to which the input
is installed.
4. Define the action the UPS will perform when the input changes state, and select the output that
will change state when this event is detected.
5. Click Display to review your changes, then click Apply.
Note: The action you configure occurs once. If you restore the input to its normal state
before the alarm condition clears, the output will not change state unless the alarm condition
clears and then reoccurs.

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Logs
Use the Event and Data Logs
Event log
Path: Logs > Events > options
You can view, filter, or delete the event log. By default, the log displays all events recorded during the
last two days, in reverse chronological order.

For lists of all configurable events and their current configuration, select the Administration tab,
Notification on the top menu bar, and by event under Event Actions on the left navigation menu.

See “Configuring by event” on page 66.

To display the event log (Logs > Events > log):

• By default, view the event log as a page of the Web interface. The most recent event is recorded
on page 1. In the navigation bar below the log:
– Click a page number to open a specific page of the log.
– Click Previous or Next to view the events recorded immediately before or after the events
listed on the open page.
– Click << to return to the first page or click >> to view the last page of the log.
• To see the listed events on one page, click Launch Log in New Window from the event log page
to display a full-screen view of the log.
Note: In your browser's options, JavaScript must be enabled for you to use the
Launch Log in New Window button.

You can also use FTP or Secure CoPy (SCP) to view the event log. See “How to use
FTP or SCP to retrieve log files” on page 47.

To filter the log (Logs > Events > log):

• Filtering the log by date or time: To display the entire event log or to change the number of days
or weeks for which the log displays the most recent events, select Last. Select a time range from
the drop-down menu, then click Apply. The filter configuration is saved until the Management
Card restarts.
To display events logged during a specific time range, select From. Specify the beginning and
ending times (using the 24-hour clock format) and dates for which to display events, then click
Apply. The filter configuration is saved until the Management Card restarts.
• Filtering the log by event: To specify the events that display in the log, click Filter Log. Unmark
the check box of an event category or alarm severity level to remove it from view. Text at the
upper right corner of the event log page indicates that a filter is active. As Administrator, click
Save As Default to save this filter as the default log view for all users. If you do not click Save As
Default, the filter is active until you clear it or until the Management Card restarts. Non-
Administrator filters are active until the user logs out, then the default is re-applied.To remove an
active filter, click Filter Log, then Clear Filter (Show All).

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 Note: Events are processed through the filter using OR logic.

• Events that you do not select from the Filter By Severity list never display in the filtered
event log, even if the event occurs in a category you selected from the Filter by Category
list.
• Events that you do not select from the Filter by Category list never display in the filtered
event log, even if devices in the category enter an alarm state you selected from the Filter by
Severity list.
To delete the log (Logs > Events > log):

To delete all events recorded in the log, click Clear Log on the Web page that displays the log. Deleted
events cannot be retrieved.

To disable the logging of events based on their assigned severity level or their event category,
see “Configuring by group” on page 66.

To configure reverse lookup (Logs > Events > reverse lookup):

Reverse lookup is disabled by default. Enable this feature unless you have no DNS server configured or
have poor network performance because of heavy network traffic.

With reverse lookup enabled, when a network-related event occurs, both the IP address and the domain
name for the networked device associated with the event are logged in the event log. If no domain name
entry exists for the device, only its IP address is logged with the event. Since domain names generally
change less frequently than IP addresses, enabling reverse lookup can improve the ability to identify
addresses of networked devices that are causing events.

To resize the event log (Logs > Events > size):

By default, the event log stores 400 events. You can change the number of events the log stores. When
you resize the event log, all existing log entries are deleted. To avoid losing log data, use FTP or SCP to
retrieve the log before you enter a new value in the Event Log Size field.

See “How to use FTP or SCP to retrieve log files” on page 47.

When the log is full, the older entries are deleted.

Data log
Path: Logs > Data > options
View a log of measurements about the UPS, the power input to the UPS, and the ambient temperature of
the UPS and batteries. Each entry is listed by the date and time the data was recorded.

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 To display the data log (Logs > Data > log):

• By default, view the data log as a page of the Web interface. The most recent data item is recorded
on page 1. From the navigation menu below the log:
– Click a page number to open a specific page of the log.
– Click Previous or Next to view the data recorded immediately before or after the data that is
listed on the open page.
– Click << to return to the first page of the log, or click >> to view the last page of the log.
• To see the listed data on one page, click Launch Log in New Window from the data log page to
display a full-screen view of the log.
Note: In your browser's options, JavaScript® must be enabled for you to use the
Launch Log in New Window button.

Alternatively, you can use FTP or Secure CoPy (SCP) to view the data log. See “How
to use FTP or SCP to retrieve log files” on page 47.

To filter the log by date or time (Logs > Data > log):

To display the entire data log, or to change the number of days or weeks for which the log displays the
most recent events, select Last. Select a time range from the drop-down menu, then click Apply. The
filter configuration is saved until the device restarts.

To display data logged during a specific time range, select From. Specify the beginning and ending
times (using the 24-hour clock format) and dates for which to display data, then click Apply. The filter
configuration is saved until the device restarts.

To delete the data log:

To delete all data recorded in the log, click Clear Data Log on the Web page that displays the log.
Deleted data cannot be retrieved.

To graph the log data (Logs > Data > graphing):

Note: Graphing is only available on the MGE Galaxy 300 and MGE Galaxy 7000 UPS.

Data log graphing provides a graphical display of logged data and is an enhancement of the existing data
log feature. How the graphing enhancement displays data and how efficiently it performs will vary
depending on your computer hardware, computer operating system, and the Web browser you use to
access the interface of the unit.

Many advanced JavaScript® features are required for data log graphing; to use this enhancement,
JavaScript must be enabled in your browser. Alternatively, you can use FTP or SCP to import the data
log into a spreadsheet application, and graph data in the spreadsheet.

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Graphing large amounts of data may cause performance problems on the computer and Web browser you
are using. Reducing the number of data points or data lines being graphed may improve performance.

Parameter Description

Graph Data To graph multiple data items, select the data items that correspond to the abbreviated
column headings in the data log. Only four items can be selected at a time.

Graph Time To graph all records, or to change the number of hours, days, or weeks for which data
log information is graphed, select Last. Select an option from the drop-down menu,
then click Apply.

To graph data logged during a specific time range, select From. Specify the beginning
and ending dates and times for which to graph data, then click Apply.

Note: Enter the time using the 24-hour clock format.

To display the graph containing the selected data on the current web page, click Apply.

To display the graph in a new window, click Launch Graph in New Window.

For instructions on graph navigation and details, please see the online help, available by
clicking Help in the upper right corner of the web page.

To set the data collection interval (Logs > Data > interval):

Define, in the Log Interval setting, how frequently data is sampled and stored in the data log, and view
the calculation of how many days of data the log can store, based on the interval you selected. When the
log is full, the older entries are deleted. To avoid automatic deletion of older data, enable and configure
data log rotation, described in the next section.

To configure data log rotation (Logs > Data > rotation):

Set up a password-protected data log repository on a specified FTP server. Enabling rotation causes the
contents of the data log to be appended to the file you specify by name and location. Updates to this file
occur at the upload interval you specify.

Parameter Description

Data Log Rotation Enable or disable (the default) data log rotation.

FTP Server Address The location of the FTP server where the data repository file is stored.

User Name The user name required to send data to the repository file. This user must also be
configured to have read and write access to the data repository file and the directory
(folder) in which it is stored.

Password The password required to send data to the repository file.

File Path The path to the repository file.

Filename The name of the repository file (an ASCII text file).

Unique File Name When checked, the current datestamp will be appended to the selected file before
sending the data to the FTP server.

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 Parameter Description

Delay X hours The number of hours between uploads of data to the file.
between uploads.

Upload every X The number of minutes between attempts to upload data to the file after an upload
minutes failure.

Up to X times The maximum number of times the upload will be attempted after an initial failure.

Until Upload Attempt to upload the file until the transfer is completed.
Succeeds

To resize the data log (Logs > Data > size):

By default, the data log stores 400 events. You can change the number of data points the log stores.
When you resize the data log, all existing log entries are deleted. To avoid losing log data, use FTP or
SCP to retrieve the log before you enter a new value in the Data Log Size field.

See “How to use FTP or SCP to retrieve log files” on page 47.

When the log is full, older entries are deleted.

How to use FTP or SCP to retrieve log files

An Administrator or Device User can use FTP or SCP to retrieve a tab-delineated event log file
(event.csv) or data log file (data.csv) and import it into a spreadsheet.

• The file reports all events or data recorded since the log was last deleted or (for the data log)
truncated because it reached maximum size.
• The file includes information that the event log or data log does not display.
– The version of the file format (first field)
– The date and time the file was retrieved
– The Name, Contact, and Location values and IP address of the Management Card
– The unique Event Code for each recorded event (event.csv file only)
Note: The Management Card uses a four-digit year for log entries. You may need
to select a four-digit date format in your spreadsheet application to display all four
digits.

If you are using the encryption-based security protocols for your system, use SCP to retrieve the log file.

If you are using unencrypted authentication methods for the security of your system, use FTP to retrieve
the log file.

See the Security Handbook, available on the Network Management Card Utility CD and on
the APC Web site (www.apc.com) for information on available protocols and methods for
setting up the type of security you need.

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To use SCP to retrieve the files. To use SCP to retrieve the event.csv file, use the following
command:

scp username@hostname_or_ip_address:event.csv ./event.csv

To use SCP to retrieve the data.csv file, use the following command:

scp username@hostname_or_ip_address:data.csv ./data.csv

To use FTP to retrieve the files. To use FTP to retrieve the event.csv or data.csv file:

1. At a command prompt, type ftp and the Management Card’s IP address, and press ENTER.
If the Port setting for the FTP Server option (set through the Network menu of the
Administration tab) has been changed from its default (21), you must use the non-default
value in the FTP command. For Windows FTP clients, use the following command, including
spaces. (For some FTP clients, you must use a colon instead of a space between the IP address
and the port number.)
ftp>open ip_address port_number

To set a non-default port value to enhance security for the FTP Server, see
“Modbus” on page 63. You can specify any port from 5001 to 32768.

2. Use the case-sensitive User Name and Password for Administrator or Device User to log on. For
Administrator, apc is the default for User Name and Password. For the Device User, the defaults
are device for User Name and apc for Password.
3. Use the get command to transmit the text of a log to your local drive.
ftp>get event.csv

or
ftp>get data.csv
4. You can use the del command to clear the contents of either log.
ftp>del event.csv
or
ftp>del data.csv

You will not be asked to confirm the deletion.

• If you clear the data log, the event log records a deleted-log event.

• If you clear the event log, a new event.csv file records the event.
5. Type quit at the ftp> prompt to exit from FTP.

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Syslog servers

Administrators can configure up to four Syslog servers to recieve notifications of events.

Managing the Syslog servers (Logs > Syslog > servers):

To add a new Syslog server, click Add Server.

To modify an existing Syslog server, click the server’s name.

Parameter Description

Syslog Server The server's IP address or host name.

Port The port number to which Syslog messages will be sent. The default and well known
port is 514.

Protocol Choose a protocol.

Language Choose a language.

Configuring the Syslog settings (Logs > Syslog > settings):

Parameter Description

Message Generation Enable the generation (and therefore the logging) of Syslog messages for events that
have Syslog configured as a notification method. To configure notification methods for
events, select the Administration tab, the Network menu on the top menu bar, and one
of the Event Actions options on the left navigation menu.

Facility Code Messages of this device will be categorized by the facility selected. Categorization
allows Syslog messages from different devices to be placed in separate logs.

Severity Mapping Maps each severity level of an American Power Conversion device event or system
event to an available Syslog priority in the drop-down list. The local severity options
are Critical, Warning, and Informational.

Testing the Syslog settings (Logs > Syslog > test):

Parameter Description

Last Test Result The result of the last test performed.

Server The message will be sent to all configured servers.

Severity Select a severity level (Syslog priority) for the test message.

Test Message Format the message to consist of the event type (APC, System, or Device, for example)
followed by a colon, a space, and the event text. The message can have a maximum of
50 characters.

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Administration: Security
Local Users
Setting user access
Path: Administration > Security > Local Users > options
The Administrator user account always has access to the Management Card.

The Device User and Read-Only User accounts are enabled by default. To disable the Device User or
Read-Only User accounts, select the user account from the left navigation menu, then clear the Enable
check box.

You set the case-sensitive user name and password for each account type in the same manner. Maximum
length is 10 characters for a user name and 32 characters for a password. Blank passwords (passwords
with no characters) are not allowed.

For information on the permissions granted to each account type (Administrator, Device
User, and Read-Only User), see “Types of user accounts” on page 3.

Account Type Default User Name Default Password Permitted Access

Administrator apc apc Web interface and command line

interface
Device User device apc

Read-Only User readonly apc Web interface only

Remote Users
Authentication
Path: Administration > Security > Remote Users > Authentication Method
Use this option to select how to administer remote access to the Management Card.

For information about local authentication (not using the centralized authentication of a
RADIUS server), see the Security Handbook, available on the Utility CD and on the APC
Web site at www.apc.com.

American Power Conversion supports the authentication and authorization functions of RADIUS
(Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service).

• When a user accesses the Network Management Card or other network-enabled device that has
RADIUS enabled, an authentication request is sent to the RADIUS server to determine the user’s
permission level.
• RADIUS user names used with the Network Management Card are limited to 32 characters.

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 Select one of the following:

• Local Authentication Only: RADIUS is disabled. Local authentication is enabled.

• RADIUS, then Local Authentication: RADIUS and local authentication are enabled.
Authentication is requested from the RADIUS server first. If the RADIUS server fails to respond,
local authentication is used.
• RADIUS Only: RADIUS is enabled. Local authentication is disabled.
Caution: If RADIUS Only is selected, and the RADIUS server is unavailable,
improperly identified, or improperly configured, remote access is unavailable to all
users. You must use a serial connection to the command line interface and change the
access setting to local or radiusLocal to regain access. For example, the
command to change the access setting to local would be:
radius -a local

RADIUS
Path: Administration > Security > Remote Users > RADIUS
Use this option to do the following:

• List the RADIUS servers (a maximum of two) available to the Management Card and the time-out
period for each.
• Click on a link, and configure the parameters for authentication by a new RADIUS server.
• Click a listed RADIUS server to display and modify its parameters.

RADIUS Setting Definition

RADIUS Server The server name or IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) of the RADIUS server. Click
on a link to configure the server.

NOTE: RADIUS servers use port 1812 by default to authenticate users. To

use a different port, add a colon followed by the new port number to the end
of the RADIUS server name or IP address.

Secret The shared secret between the RADIUS server and the Management Card.

Timeout The time in seconds that the Management Card waits for a response from
the RADIUS server.

Test Settings Enter the Administrator user name and password to test the RADIUS server
path that you have configured.

Skip Test and Apply Do not test the RADIUS server path.

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Configuring the RADIUS Server
Summary of the configuration procedure

You must configure your RADIUS server to work with the Management Card.

For examples of the RADIUS users file with Vendor Specific Attributes (VSAs) and an
example of an entry in the dictionary file on the RADIUS server, see the Security Handbook.

1. Add the IP address of the Management Card to the RADIUS server client list (file).
2. Users must be configured with Service-Type attributes unless Vendor Specific Attributes (VSAs)
are defined. If no Service-Type attributes are configured, users will have read-only access (on the
Web interface only).
See your RADIUS server documentation for information about the RADIUS users
file, and see the Security Handbook for an example.

3. Vendor Specific Attributes (VSAs) can be used instead of the Service-Type attributes provided by
the RADIUS server. VSAs require a dictionary entry and a RADIUS users file. In the dictionary
file, define the names for the ATTRIBUTE and VALUE keywords, but not for the numeric
values. If you change numeric values, RADIUS authentication and authorization will fail. VSAs
take precedence over standard RADIUS attributes.

Configuring a RADIUS server on UNIX® with shadow passwords

If UNIX shadow password files are used (/etc/passwd) with the RADIUS dictionary files, the following
two methods can be used to authenticate users:

• If all UNIX users have administrative privileges, add the following to the RADIUS “user” file. To
allow only Device Users, change the APC-Service-Type to Device.
DEFAULTAuth-Type = System
APC-Service-Type = Admin
• Add user names and attributes to the RADIUS “user” file, and verify the password against /etc/
passwd. The following example is for users bconners and thawk:
bconners Auth-Type = System
APC-Service-Type = Admin
thawk Auth-Type = System
APC-Service-Type = Device

Supported RADIUS servers

American Power Conversion supports FreeRADIUS and Microsoft IAS 2003. Other commonly
available RADIUS applications may work but have not been fully tested by American Power
Conversion.

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Inactivity Timeout
Path: Administration > Security > Auto Log Off
Use this option to configure the time (3 minutes by default) that the system waits before logging off an
inactive user. If you change this value, you must log off for the change to take effect.

Note: This timer continues to run if a user closes the browser window without first logging
off by clicking Log Off at the upper right. Because that user is still considered to be logged
on, no user can log on until the time specified as Minutes of Inactivity expires. For example,
with the default value for Minutes of Inactivity, if a user closes the browser window without
logging off, no user can log on for 3 minutes.

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Administration: Network Features
TCP/IP and Communication Settings
TCP/IP settings
Path: Administration > Network > TCP/IP > IPv4 settings
The TCP/IP option on the left navigation menu, selected by default when you choose Network on the
top menu bar, displays the current current IPv4 address, subnet mask, default gateway, MAC address,
and boot mode of the Management Card.

For information on DHCP and DHCP options, see RFC2131 and RFC2132.

Setting Description

Enable Enable or disable IPv4 with this check box.

Manual Configure IPv4 manually by entering the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway.

BOOTP A BOOTP server provides the TCP/IP settings. At 32-second intervals, the Management Card
requests network assignment from any BOOTP server:
• If the Management Card receives a valid response, it starts the network services.
• If the Management Card finds a BOOTP server, but a request to that server fails or times out, the
Management Card stops requesting network settings until it is restarted.
• By default, if previously configured network settings exist, and the Management Card receives no
valid response to five requests (the original and four retries), it uses the previously configured
settings so that it remains accessible.

Click Next>> to access the BOOTP Configuration page to change the number of retries or the
action to take if all retries fail 1:
• Maximum retries: Enter the number of retries that will occur when no valid response is received,
or zero (0) for an unlimited number of retries.
• If retries fail: Select Use prior settings (the default) or Stop BOOTP request.

DHCP The default setting. At 32-second intervals, the Management Card requests network assignment
from any DHCP server.
• If the Management Card receives a valid response, it does not (as previously) require the APC
cookie from the DHCP server in order to accept the lease and start the network services.
• If the Management Card finds a DHCP server, but the request to that server fails or times out, it
stops requesting network settings until it is restarted1.
• Require vendor specific cookie to accept DHCP Address: By selecting this check box, you can
require the DHCP server to provide a cookie which supplies information to the Management
Card.

1. The default values for these three settings on the configuration pages generally do not need to be changed:
• Vendor Class: APC
• Client ID: The MAC address of the Network Management Card, which uniquely identifies it on the local
area network (LAN)
• User Class: The name of the application firmware module

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DHCP response options

Each valid DHCP response contains options that provide the TCP/IP settings that the Management Card
needs to operate on a network, and other information that affects the Management Card’s operation.

Vendor Specific Information (option 43). The Management Card uses this option in a DHCP
response to determine whether the DHCP response is valid. This option contains up to two American
Power Conversion-specific options in a TAG/LEN/DATA format: the APC Cookie and the Boot Mode
Transition.

• APC Cookie. Tag 1, Len 4, Data “1APC”

Option 43 communicates to the Management Card that a DHCP server is configured to service
American Power Conversion devices.
Following, in hexadecimal format, is an example of a Vendor Specific Information option that
contains the APC cookie:
Option 43 = 0x01 0x04 0x31 0x41 0x50 0x43
TCP/IP options. The Management Card uses the following options within a valid DHCP response to
define its TCP/IP settings. All of these options except the first are described in RFC2132.

• IP Address (from the yiaddr field of the DHCP response, described in RFC2131): The IP
address that the DHCP server is leasing to the Management Card.
• Subnet Mask (option 1): The Subnet Mask value that the Management Card needs to operate on
the network.
• Router, i.e., Default Gateway (option 3): The default gateway address that the Management Card
needs to operate on the network.
• IP Address Lease Time (option 51): The time duration for the lease of the IP Address to the
Management Card.
• Renewal Time, T1 (option 58): The time that the Management Card must wait after an IP address
lease is assigned before it can request a renewal of that lease.
• Rebinding Time, T2 (option 59): The time that the Management Card must wait after an IP
address lease is assigned before it can seek to rebind that lease.
Other options. The Management Card also uses these options within a valid DHCP response. All of
these options except the last are described in RFC2132.

• Network Time Protocol Servers (option 42): Up to two NTP servers (primary and secondary)
that the Management Card can use.
• Time Offset (option 2): The offset of the Management Card's subnet, in seconds, from
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
• Domain Name Server (option 6): Up to two Domain Name System (DNS) servers (primary and
secondary) that the Management Card can use.
• Host Name (option 12): The host name that the Management Card will use (32-character
maximum length).
• Domain Name (option 15): The domain name that the Management Card will use (64-character
maximum length).
• Boot File Name (from the file field of the DHCP response, described in RFC2131): The fully
qualified directory-path to an user configuration file (.ini file) to download. The siaddr field of
the DHCP response specifies the IP address of the server from which the Management Card will

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 download the .ini file. After the download, the Management Card uses the .ini file as a boot file to
reconfigure its settings.
Path: Administration > Network > TCP/IP > IPv6 settings
Setting Description

Enable Enable or disable IPv6 with this check box.

Manual Configure IPv6 manually by entering the IP address and the default gateway.

Auto When the Auto Configuration check box is selected, the system obtains addressing prefixes
Configuration from the router (if available). It uses those prefixes to automatically configure IPv6 addresses.

DHCPv6 Router Controlled: Selecting this option means that DHCPv6 is controlled by the
Mode Managed(M) and Other(O) flags received in IPv6 router advertisements. When a router
advertisement is received, the Management Card checks whether the M or the O flag is set.
The Management Card interprets the state of the M (Managed Address Configuration Flag)
and O (Other Stateful Configuration Flag) "bits" for the following cases:
• Neither is set: Indicates the local network has no DHCPv6 infrastructure. The Management
Card uses router advertisements and manual configuration to get addresses that are not link-
local and other settings.
• M, or M and O are set: In this situation, full DHCPv6 address configuration occurs.
DHCPv6 is used to obtain addresses AND other configuration settings. This is known as
DHCPv6 stateful. Once the M flag has been received, the DHCPv6 address
configuration stays in effect until the interface in question has been closed. This is true even
if subsequent router advertisement packets are received in which the M flag is not set.
If an O flag is received first, then an M flag is received subsequently, the Management Card
performs full address configuration upon receipt of the M flag
• Only O is set: In this situation, the Management Card sends a DHCPv6 Info-Request packet.
DHCPv6 will be used to configure “other” settings (such as location of DNS servers), but
NOT to provide addresses. This is known as DHCPv6 stateless.
Address and Other Information: With this radio box selected, DHCPv6 is used to obtain
addresses AND other configuration settings. This is known as DHCPv6 stateful.
Non-Address Information Only: With this radio box selected, DHCPv6 will be used to
configure "other" settings (such as location of DNS servers), but NOT to provide addresses.
This is known as DHCPv6 stateless.
Never: Select this to disable DHCPv6.

Ping Response
Path: Administration > Network > Ping Response
Select the Enable check box for IPv4 Ping Response to allow the Network Management Card to
respond to network pings. Clear the check box to disable a Management Card response. This does not
apply to IPv6.

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Port Speed
Path: Administration > Network > Port Speed
The Port Speed setting defines the communication speed of the TCP/IP port.

• For Auto-negotiation (the default), Ethernet devices negotiate to transmit at the highest possible
speed, but if the supported speeds of two devices are unmatched, the slower speed is used.
• Alternatively, you can choose 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps, each with the option of half-duplex
(communication in only one direction at a time) or full-duplex (communication in both directions
on the same channel simultaneously).

DNS
Path: Administration > Network > DNS > options
Use the options under DNS on the left navigation menu to configure and test the Domain Name System
(DNS):

• Select servers to specify the IP addresses of the primary and optional secondary DNS server. For
the Management Card to send e-mail, at least the IP address of the primary DNS server must be
defined.
– The Management Card waits up to 15 seconds for a response from the primary DNS server or
the secondary DNS server (if a secondary DNS server is specified). If the Management Card
does not receive a response within that time, e-mail cannot be sent. Therefore, use DNS
servers on the same segment as the Management Card or on a nearby segment (but not across
a wide-area network [WAN]).
– After you define the IP addresses of the DNS servers, verify that DNS is working correctly by
entering the DNS name of a computer on your network to look up the IP address for that
computer.
• Select naming to define the host name and domain name of the Management Card:
– Host Name: After you configure a host name here and a domain name in the Domain Name
field, users can enter a host name in any field in the Management Card interface (except e-mail
addresses) that accepts a domain name.
– Domain Name (IPv4): You need to configure the domain name here only. In all other fields in
the Management Card interface (except e-mail addresses) that accept domain names, the
Management Card adds this domain name when only a host name is entered.
• To override all instances of the expansion of a specified host name by the addition of the
domain name, set the domain name field to its default, somedomain.com, or to
0.0.0.0.
• To override the expansion of a specific host name entry (for example, when defining a trap
receiver), include a trailing period. The Management Card recognizes a host name with a
trailing period (such as mySnmpServer.) as if it were a fully qualified domain name
and does not append the domain name.
• Domain Name (IPv6): Specify the IPv6 domain name here.

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• Select test to send a DNS query that tests the setup of your DNS servers:
– As Query Type, select the method to use for the DNS query:
• by Host: the URL name of the server
• by FQDN: the fully qualified domain name
• by IP: the IP address of the server
• by MX: the Mail Exchange used by the server
– As Query Question, identify the value to be used for the selected query type:

Query Type Selected Query Question to Use

by Host The URL

by FQDN The fully qualified domain name, my_server.my_domain.

by IP The IP address

by MX The Mail Exchange address

– View the result of the test DNS request in the Last Query Response field.

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Web
Path: Administration > Network > Web > options

Option Description

access To activate changes to any of these selections, log off from the Management Card:
• Disable: Disables access to the Web interface. (To re-enable access, log in to the command line
interface, then type the command http -S enable. For HTTPS access, type https -S
enable.)
• Enable HTTP (the default): Enables Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which provides Web
access by user name and password, but does not encrypt user names, passwords, and data during
transmission.
• Enable HTTPS: Enables Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
SSL encrypts user names, passwords, and data during transmission, and authenticates the
Management Card by digital certificate. When HTTPS is enabled, your browser displays a small lock
icon.

See “Creating and Installing Digital Certificates” in the Security Handbook on the APC Network
Management Card Utility CD to choose among the several methods for using digital certificates.

HTTP Port: The TCP/IP port (80 by default) used to communicate by HTTP with the Management
Card.
HTTPS Port: The TCP/IP port (443 by default) used to communicate by HTTPS with the
Management Card.
For either of these ports, you can change the port setting to any unused port from 5000 to 32768 for
additional security. Users must then use a colon (:) in the address field of the browser to specify the port
number. For example, for a port number of 5000 and an IP address of 152.214.12.114:
http://152.214.12.114:5000
https://152.214.12.114:5000

ssl Add, replace, or remove a security certificate.

certificate
Status:
• Not installed: A certificate is not installed, or was installed by FTP or SCP to an incorrect location.
Using Add or Replace Certificate File installs the certificate to the correct location, /ssl on the
Network Management Card.
• Generating: The Network Management Card is generating a certificate because no valid certificate
was found.
• Loading: A certificate is being activated on the Management Card.
• Valid certificate: A valid certificate was installed or was generated by the Management Card. Click
on this link to view the certificate’s contents.

If you install an invalid certificate, or if no certificate is loaded when you enable SSL, the
Management Card generates a default certificate, a process which delays access to the interface
for up to one minute. You can use the default certificate for basic encryption-based security, but a
security alert message displays whenever you log on.

Add or Replace Certificate File: Enter or browse to the certificate file created with the Security
Wizard.

See “Creating and Installing Digital Certificates” in the Security Handbook on the APC Network
Management Card Utility CD to choose a method for using digital certificates created by the Security
Wizard or generated by the Management Card.

Remove: Delete the current certificate.

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Console
Path: Administration > Network > Console > options
Option Description

access Choose one of the following for access by Telnet or Secure SHell (SSH):
• Disable: Disables all access to the command line interface.
• Enable Telnet (the default): Telnet transmits user names, passwords, and data without encryption.
• Enable SSH: SSH transmits user names, passwords, and data in encrypted form, providing
protection from attempts to intercept, forge, or alter data during transmission.

Configure the ports to be used by these protocols:

• Telnet Port: The Telnet port used to communicate with the Management Card (23 by default). You
can change the port setting to any unused port from 5000 to 32768 for additional security. Users must
then use a colon (:) or a space, as required by your Telnet client program, to specify the non-default
port. For example, for port 5000 and an IP address of 152.214.12.114, your Telnet client requires one
of the these commands:
telnet 152.214.12.114:5000
telnet 152.214.12.114 5000
• SSH Port: The SSH port used to communicate with the Management Card (22 by default). You can
change the port setting to any unused port from 5000 to 32768 for additional security. See the
documentation for your SSH client for the command line format required to specify a non-default
port.

ssh host key Status indicates the status of the host key (private key):
• SSH Disabled: No host key in use: When disabled, SSH cannot use a host key.
• Generating: The Management Card is creating a host key because no valid host key was found.
• Loading: A host key is being activated on the Management Card.
• Valid: One of the following valid host keys is in the /ssh directory (the required location on the
Network Management Card):
•A 1024-bit or 2048-bit host key created by the Security Wizard
•A 2048-bit RSA host key generated by the Network Management Card

Add or Replace: Browse to and upload a host key file created by the Security Wizard.

To use the Security Wizard, see the Security Handbook on the APC Network Management Card Utility
CD.

NOTE: To reduce the time required to enable SSH, create and upload a host key in advance. If you
enable SSH with no host key loaded, the Management Card takes up to one minute to create a
host key, and the SSH server is not accessible during that time.

Remove: Remove the current host key.

Note: To use SSH, you must have an SSH client installed. Most Linux and other UNIX®
platforms include an SSH client, but Microsoft Windows operating systems do not. Clients
are available from various vendors.

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SNMP
All user names, passwords, and community names for SNMP are transferred over the network as plain
text. If your network requires the high security of encryption, disable SNMP access or set the access for
each community to Read. (A community with Read access can receive status information and use SNMP
traps.)

When using InfraStruxure Central to manage a UPS on the public network of an InfraStruxure system,
you must have SNMP enabled in the Management Card interface. Read access will allow the
InfraStruxure device to receive traps from the Management Card, but Write access is required while you
use the interface of the Management Card to set the InfraStruxure device as a trap receiver.

For detailed information on enhancing and managing the security of your system, see the
Security Handbook, available on the APC Network Management Card Utility CD or from the
APC Web site, www.apc.com.

SNMPv1
Path: Administration > Network > SNMPv1 > options

Option Description

access Enable SNMPv1 Access: Enables SNMP version 1 as a method of communication with this device.

access You can configure up to four access control entries to specify which Network Management Systems
control (NMSs) have access to this device. The opening page for access control, by default, assigns one entry to
each of the four available SNMPv1 communities, but you can edit these settings to apply more than one
entry to any community to grant access by several specific IP addresses, host names, or IP address
masks. To edit the access control settings for a community, click its community name.
• If you leave the default access control entry unchanged for a community, that community has access to
this device from any location on the network.
• If you configure multiple access control entries for one community name, the limit of four entries
requires that one or more of the other communities must have no access control entry. If no access
control entry is listed for a community, that community has no access to this device.
Community Name: The name that an NMS must use to access the community. The maximum length is
15 ASCII characters, and the default community names for the four communities are public,
private, public2, and private2.
NMS IP/Host Name: The IP address, IP address mask, or host name that controls access by NMSs. A
host name or a specific IP address (such as 149.225.12.1) allows access only by the NMS at that
location. IP addresses that contain 255 restrict access as follows:
• 149.225.12.255: Access only by an NMS on the 149.225.12 segment.
• 149.225.255.255: Access only by an NMS on the 149.225 segment.
• 149.255.255.255: Access only by an NMS on the 149 segment.
• 0.0.0.0 (the default setting) which can also be expressed as 255.255.255.255: Access by any NMS on
any segment.

Access Type: The actions an NMS can perform through the community.
• Read: GETS only, at any time
• Write: GETS at any time, and SETS when no user is logged onto the Web interface or command line
interface.
• Write+: GETS and SETS at any time.
• Disable: No GETS or SETS at any time.

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SNMPv3
Path: Administration > Network > SNMPv3 > options
For SNMP GETs, SETs, and trap receivers, SNMPv3 uses a system of user profiles to identify users. An
SNMPv3 user must have a user profile assigned in the MIB software program to perform GETs and
SETs, browse the MIB, and receive traps.

Note: To use SNMPv3, you must have a MIB program that supports SNMPv3.

The Management Card supports SHA or MD5 authentication and AES or DES encryption.

Option Description

access SNMPv3 Access: Enables SNMPv3 as a method of communication with this device.

user By default, lists the settings of four user profiles, configured with the user names apc snmp profile1
profiles through apc snmp profile4, and no authentication and no privacy (no encryption). To edit the following
settings for a user profile, click a user name in the list.

User Name: The identifier of the user profile. SNMP version 3 maps GETs, SETs, and traps to a user
profile by matching the user name of the profile to the user name in the data packet being transmitted. A
user name can have up to 32 ASCII characters.

Authentication Passphrase: A phrase of 15 to 32 ASCII characters (apc auth passphrase, by

default) that verifies that the NMS communicating with this device through SNMPv3 is the NMS it
claims to be, that the message has not been changed during transmission, and that the message was
communicated in a timely manner, indicating that it was not delayed and that it was not copied and sent
again later at an inappropriate time.

Privacy Passphrase: A phrase of 15 to 32 ASCII characters (apc crypt passphrase, by default)

that ensures the privacy of the data (by means of encryption) that an NMS is sending to this device or
receiving from this device through SNMPv3.

Authentication Protocol: The American Power Conversion implementation of SNMPv3 supports SHA
and MD5 authentication. Authentication will not occur unless an authentication protocol is selected.

Privacy Protocol: The American Power Conversion implementation of SNMPv3 supports AES and DES
as the protocols for encrypting and decrypting data. Privacy of transmitted data requires that a privacy
protocol is selected and that a privacy passphrase is provided in the request from the NMS. When a
privacy protocol is enabled but the NMS does not provide a privacy passphrase, the SNMP request is not
encrypted.

NOTE: You cannot select the privacy protocol if no authentication protocol is selected.

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 Option Description

access You can configure up to four access control entries to specify which NMSs have access to this device.
control The opening page for access control, by default, assigns one entry to each of the four user profiles, but
you can edit these settings to apply more than one entry to any user profile to grant access by several
specific IP addresses, host names, or IP address masks.
• If you leave the default access control entry unchanged for a user profile, all NMSs that use that profile
have access to this device.
• If you configure multiple access entries for one user profile, the limit of four entries requires that one or
more of the other user profiles must have no access control entry. If no access control entry is listed for
a user profile, no NMS that uses that profile has any access to this device.

To edit the access control settings for a user profile, click its user name.

Access: Mark the Enable check box to activate the access control specified by the parameters in this
access control entry.

User Name: From the drop-down list, select the user profile to which this access control entry will apply.
The choices available are the four user names that you configure through the user profiles option on the
left navigation menu.

NMS IP/Host Name: The IP address, IP address mask, or host name that controls access by the NMS. A
host name or a specific IP address (such as 149.225.12.1) allows access only by the NMS at that location.
An IP address mask that contain 255 restricts access as follows:
• 149.225.12.255: Access only by an NMS on the 149.225.12 segment.
• 149.225.255.255: Access only by an NMS on the 149.225 segment.
• 149.255.255.255: Access only by an NMS on the 149 segment.
• 0.0.0.0 (the default setting) which can also be expressed as 255.255.255.255: Access by any NMS on
any segment.

Modbus
Path: Administration > Network > Modbus > serial (or TCP)
Enable or disable access to the Modbus serial or TCP interface by selecting or clearing the Enable check
box.

Set the connection parameters for the Modbus connection - a port number for the TCP connection, or the
parameters for the serial connection. The default serial connection settings are 19200 baud, 1 start bit, 8
data bits, even parity, and 1 stop bit.

Note: If you select None, the Modbus master should be set to use 2 stop bits. For Even or
Odd, use 1 stop bit.

Set the unique ID for the device by providing a value in the Target Unique ID field. The value must be
between 1 and 247 (inclusive).

When you are finished making your selections, click Apply to save your changes.

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FTP Server
Path: Administration > Network > FTP Server
The FTP Server settings enable (by default) or disable access to the FTP server and specify the TCP/IP
port (21 by default) that the FTP server uses to communicate with the Management Card. The FTP
server uses both the specified port and the port one number lower than the specified port.

You can change the Port setting to the number of any unused port from 5001 to 32768 for added
security. Users must then use a colon (:) to specify the non-default port number. For example, for port
5001 and IP address 152.214.12.114, the command would be ftp 152.214.12.114:5001.

Note: FTP transfers files without encryption. For higher security, disable the FTP server, and
transfer files with Secure CoPy (SCP). Selecting and configuring Secure SHell (SSH) enables
SCP automatically.

At any time that you want a UPS to be accessible for management by InfraStruxure Central,
FTP Server must be enabled in the Management Card interface of that UPS.

For detailed information on enhancing and managing the security of your system, see the
Security Handbook, available on the APC Network Management Card Utility CD or from the
APC Web site.

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Administration: Notification
Event Actions
Path: Administration > Notification > Event Actions > options

Types of notification

You can configure event actions to occur in response to an event or group of events. These actions notify
users of the event in any of several ways:

• Active, automatic notification. The specified users or monitoring devices are contacted directly.
– E-mail notification
– SNMP traps
– Remote Monitoring Service
– Syslog notification
• Indirect notification
– Event log. If no direct notification is configured, users must check the log to determine which
events have occurred.
You can also log system performance data to use for device monitoring. See “Data
log” on page 44 for information on how to configure and use this data logging
option.
– Queries (SNMP GETs)
For more information, see “SNMP” on page 61. SNMP enables an NMS to
perform informational queries. For SNMPv1, which does not encrypt data before
transmission, configuring the most restrictive SNMP access type (READ) enables
informational queries without the risk of allowing remote configuration changes.
Configuring event actions
Notification parameters. For events that have an associated clearing event, you can also set the
following parameters as you configure events individually or by group, as described in the next two
sections. To access the parameters, click the receiver or recipient name.

Parameter Description

Delay x time before If the event persists for the specified time, notification is sent. If the condition clears
sending before the time expires, no notification is sent.

Repeat at an The notification is sent at the specified interval (e.g., every 2 minutes).
interval of x time

Up to x times During an active event, the notification repeats for this number of times.

Until condition The notification is sent repeatedly until the condition clears or is resolved.
clears

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Configuring by event. To define event actions for an individual event:

1. Select the Administration tab, Notification on the top menu bar, and by event under Event
Actions on the left navigation menu.
2. In the list of events, review the marked columns to see whether the action you want is already
configured. (By default, logging is configured for all events.)
3. To view or change the current configuration, such as recipients to be notified by e-mail or paging,
or Network Management Systems (NMSs) to be notified by SNMP traps, click on the event
name.
Note: If no Syslog server is configured, items related to Syslog configuration are
not displayed.

When viewing details of an event’s configuration, you can change the

configuration, enable or disable event logging or Syslog, or disable notification for
specific e-mail recipients or trap receivers, but you cannot add or remove recipients
or receivers. To add or remove recipients or receivers, see the following:
• “Identifying Syslog Servers” on page 70
• “E-mail recipients” on page 68
• “Trap Receivers” on page 69
Configuring by group. To configure a group of events simultaneously:

1. Select the Administration tab, Notification on the top menu bar, and by group under Event
Actions on the left navigation menu.
2. Choose how to group events for configuration:
– Choose Grouped by severity, and then select all events of one or more severity levels. You
cannot change the severity of an event.
– Choose Grouped by category, and then select all events in one or more pre-defined
categories.
3. Click Next>> to move from page to page to do the following:
a. Select event actions for the group of events.
• To choose any action except Logging (the default), you must first have at least one
relevant recipient or receiver configured.
• If you choose Logging and have configured a Syslog server, select Event Log or Syslog
(or both) on the next page.
b. Select whether to leave the newly configured event action enabled for this group of events
or to disable the action.

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Active, Automatic, Direct Notification
E-mail notification
Overview of setup. Use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send e-mail to up to four
recipients when an event occurs.

To use the e-mail feature, you must define the following settings:

• The IP addresses of the primary and, optionally, the secondary Domain Name System (DNS)
servers

See “DNS” on page 57.

• The IP address or DNS name for SMTP Server and From Address

See “SMTP” on page 67.

• The e-mail addresses for a maximum of four recipients

See “E-mail recipients” on page 68.

Note: You can use the To Address setting of the recipients option to send e-mail to a
text-based pager.

SMTP.

Path: Administration > Notification > E-mail > server

Setting Description

Local The IP address or DNS name of the local SMTP server.

SMTP
Server NOTE: This definition is required only when SMTP Server is set to Local. See “E-mail
recipients” on page 68.

From The contents of the From field in e-mail messages sent by the Management Card:
Address • In the format user@ [IP_address] (if an IP address is specified as Local SMTP Server)
• In the format user@domain (if DNS is configured and the DNS name is specified as Local
SMTP Server) in the e-mail messages.

NOTE: The local SMTP server may require that you use a valid user account on the server for
this setting. See the server’s documentation.

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E-mail recipients.

Path: Administration>Notification>E-mail>recipients
Identify up to four e-mail recipients.

Setting Description

To Address The user and domain names of the recipient. To use e-mail for paging, use the e-mail address
for the recipient’s pager gateway account (for example, myacct100@skytel.com). The pager
gateway will generate the page.

To bypass the DNS lookup of the mail server’s IP address, use the IP address in brackets
instead of the e-mail domain name, e.g., use jsmith@[xxx.xxx.x.xxx] instead of
jsmith@company.com. This is useful when DNS lookups are not working correctly.

NOTE: The recipient’s pager must be able to use text-based messaging. The MGE Galaxy
300, MGE Galaxy 7000, Symmetra PX 250, and Symmetra PX 500 UPS devices do not
support paging.

E-mail Enables (by default) or disables sending e-mail to the recipient.

Generation

SMTP Server Select one of the following methods for routing e-mail:
• Local: Through the Management Card’s SMTP server. This setting (recommended) ensures
that the e-mail is sent before the Management Card’s 20-second time-out, and, if necessary,
is retried several times. Also do one of the following:
• Enable forwarding at the Management Card’s SMTP server so that it can route e-mail to
external SMTP servers. Typically, SMTP servers are not configured to forward e-mail.
Check with the administrator of your SMTP server before changing its configuration to
allow forwarding.
• Set up a special e-mail account for the Management Card to forward e-mail to an external
mail account.
• Recipient: Directly to the recipient’s SMTP server. With this setting, the Management Card
tries to send the e-mail only once. On a busy remote SMTP server, the time-out may prevent
some e-mail from being sent.

When the recipient uses the Management Card’s SMTP server, this setting has no effect.

Format The long format contains Name, Location, Contact, IP address, serial number of the device,
date and time, event code, and event description. The short format provides only the event
description.

Language Chose a language from the drop-down list and any mails will be sent in that language. It is
possible to use different languages for different users.

User Name If your mail server requires authentication, type your user name and password here. This
Password performs a simple authentication, not SSI.
Confirm
Password

E-mail test.

Path: Administration>Notification>E-mail>test
Send a test message to a configured recipient.

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SNMP traps
Trap Receivers.

Path: Administration > Notification > SNMP Traps > trap receivers
View trap receivers by NMS IP/Host Name. You can configure up to six trap receivers.

• To open the page for configuring a new trap receiver, click Add Trap Receiver.
• To modify or delete a trap receiver, first click its IP address or host name to access its settings. (If
you delete a trap receiver, all notification settings configured under Event Actions for the deleted
trap receiver are set to their default values.)
• To specify the trap type for a trap receiver, select either the SNMPv1 or SNMPv3 radio button.
For an NMS to receive both types of traps, you must configure two trap receivers for that NMS,
one for each trap type.

Item Definition

Trap Generation Enable (the default) or disable trap generation for this trap receiver.

NMS IP/Host Name The IP address or host name of this trap receiver. The default, 0.0.0.0, leaves the trap
receiver undefined.

Language Chose a language from the drop-down list. This can differ from the UI and from
other trap receivers.

SNMPv1 option.
Item Definition

Community Name The name (public by default) used as an identifier when SNMPv1 traps are sent to
this trap receiver.

Authenticate Traps When this option is enabled (the default), the NMS identified by the NMS IP/Host
Name setting will receive authentication traps (traps generated by invalid attempts to
log on to this device). To disable that ability, unmark the check box.

SNMPv3 option. Select the identifier of the user profile for this trap receiver. (To view the settings of
the user profiles identified by the user names selectable here, choose Network on the top menu bar and
user profiles under SNMPv3 on the left navigation menu.)

See “SNMPv3” on page 62 for information on creating user profiles and selecting
authentication and encryption methods.

SNMP Trap Test

Path: Administration > Notification > SNMP Traps > test

Last Test Result. The result of the most recent SNMP trap test. A successful SNMP trap test verifies
only that a trap was sent; it does not verify that the trap was received by the selected trap receiver. A trap
test succeeds if all of the following are true:

• The SNMP version (SNMPv1 or SNMPv3) configured for the selected trap receiver is enabled on
this device.
• The trap receiver is enabled.
• If a host name is selected for the To address, that host name can be mapped to a valid IP address.

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 To. Select the IP address or host name to which a test SNMP trap will be sent. If no trap receiver is
configured, a link to the Trap Receiver configuration page is displayed.

Remote Monitoring Service

Path: Administration > Notification > Remote Monitoring
The Remote Monitoring Service (RMS) is an optional service that monitors your system from a remote
operation center 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and notifies you of device and system events.

To purchase the RMS service, contact your American Power Conversion vendor or see the
RMS Web site, rms.apc.com.

Registration. To activate RMS for the Management Card, select Enable APC Remote Monitoring
Service., choose between Register Company and Device and Register Device Only, complete the
form, and click Send APC RMS Registration.

Use the Reset APC Remote Monitoring Service Registration check box to discontinue the service,
whether permanently or temporarily (for example, if you are moving a Management Card).

Syslog
Path: Logs > Syslog > options

The Management Card can send messages to up to four Syslog servers when an event occurs. The Syslog
servers record events that occur at network devices in a log that provides a centralized record of events.

This user’s guide does not describe Syslog or its configuration values in detail. See RFC3164
for more information about Syslog.

Identifying Syslog Servers.

Path: Logs > Syslog > servers

Setting Definition

Syslog Server Uses IPv4/ IPv6 addresses or host names to identify from one to four servers to receive
Syslog messages sent by the Management Card.

Port The user datagram protocol (UDP) port that the Management Card will use to send Syslog
messages. The default is 514, the UDP port assigned to Syslog.

Protocol Choose between UDP and TCP.

Language Choose the language for any Syslog messages.

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 Syslog Settings.

Path: Logs > Syslog > settings

Setting Definition

Message Enables (by default) or disables the Syslog feature.

Generation

Facility Code Selects the facility code assigned to the Management Card’s Syslog messages (User, by
default).

NOTE: User best defines the Syslog messages sent by the Management Card. Do not change
this selection unless advised to do so by the Syslog network or system administrator.

Severity Maps each severity level of Management Card or Environment events to available Syslog
Mapping priorities. You should not need to change the mappings.

The following definitions are from RFC3164:

• Emergency: The system is unusable
• Alert: Action must be taken immediately
• Critical: Critical conditions
• Error: Error conditions
• Warning: Warning conditions
• Notice: Normal but significant conditions
• Informational: Informational messages
• Debug: Debug-level messages

Following are the default settings for the Local Priority settings:
• Severe is mapped to Critical
• Warning is mapped to Warning
• Informational is mapped to Info

NOTE: To disable Syslog messages, see “Configuring event actions” on page 65.

Syslog test and format example.

Path: Logs > Syslog > test

Send a test message to the Syslog servers configured through the servers option.

1. Select a severity to assign to the test message.

2. Define the test message, according to the required message fields
– The priority (PRI): the Syslog priority assigned to the message’s event, and the facility code of
messages sent by the Management Card.
– The Header: a time stamp and the IP address of the Management Card.
– The message (MSG) part:
• The TAG field, followed by a colon and space, identifies the event type.
• The CONTENT field is the event text, followed (optionally) by a space and the event
code.
For example, APC: Test Syslog is valid.

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Administration: General Options
Identification
Path: Administration > General > Identification
Define the Name (the device name), Location (the physical location), and Contact (the person
responsible for the device) used by InfraStruxure Central and the SNMP agent of the Management Card.
These settings are the values used for the MIB-II sysName, sysContact, and sysLocation Object
Identifiers (OIDs).

For more information about MIB-II OIDs, see the PowerNet® SNMP Management
Information Base (MIB) Reference Guide, available on the Network Management Card
Utility CD and the APC Web site, www.apc.com.

The Name and Location fields also identify the device when you register for the Remote Monitoring
Service. See “Remote Monitoring Service” on page 77 for more information.

Set the Date and Time

Method
Path: Administration>General>Date & Time>mode
Set the time and date used by the Management Card. You can change the current settings manually or
through a Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server:

• Manual Mode: Do one of the following:

– Enter the date and time for the Management Card.
– Select the check box Apply Local Computer Time to match the date and time settings of the
computer you are using.
• Synchronize with NTP Server: Have an NTP Server define the date and time for the
Management Card.
Note: By default, any Management Card on the private side of an InfraStruxure
Central obtains its time settings by using InfraStruxure Central as an NTP server.

Setting Definition

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.

Time Zone Select a time zone. The number of hours preceding each time zone in the list is the
offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), formerly Greenwich Mean Time.

Update Interval Define how often, in hours, the Management Card accesses the NTP Server for an
update. Minimum: 1; Maximum: 8760 (1 year).

Update Using NTP Now Initiate an immediate update of date and time by the NTP Server.

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Daylight saving
Path: Administration>General>Date & Time>daylight saving
Enable traditional United States Daylight Saving Time (DST), or enable and configure a customized
daylight saving time to match how Daylight Saving Time is implemented in your local area. DST is
disabled by default.

When customizing Daylight Saving Time (DST):

• If the local DST always starts or ends on the fourth occurrence of a specific weekday of a month
(e.g, the fourth Sunday), choose Fourth/Last. If a fifth Sunday occurs in that month in a
subsequent year, the time setting still changes on the fourth Sunday.
• If the local DST always starts or ends on the last occurrence of a specific weekday of a month,
whether it is the fourth or the fifth occurrence, choose Fifth/Last.

Format
Path: Administration>General>Date & Time>date format
Select the numerical format in which to display all dates in this user interface. In the selections, each
letter m (for month), d (for day), and y (for year) represents one digit. Single-digit days and months are
displayed with a leading zero.The format mmm represents a three-letter month name.

Use an .ini File

Path: Administration>General>User Config File
Use the settings from one Management Card to configure another. Retrieve the config.ini file from the
configured Management Card, customize that file (e.g., to change the IP address), and upload the
customized file to the new Management Card. The file name can be up to 64 characters and must have
the.ini suffix.

Status Reports the progress of the upload. The upload succeeds even if the file contains errors, but a
system event reports the errors in the event log.

Upload Browse to the customized file and upload it so that the current Management Card can use it to set its
own configuration.

To retrieve and customize the file of a configured Management Card, see “How to Export
Configuration Settings” on page 79.

Instead of uploading the file to one Management Card, you can export the file to multiple Management
Cards by using an FTP or SCP script or a batch file and the American Power Conversion .ini file utility,
available from www.apc.com/tools/download.

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Event Log, Temperature Units, and Log-In Page
Path: Administration > General > Preferences

Color-code event log text

This option is disabled by default. Select the Event Log Color Coding check box to enable color-coding
of alarm text recorded in the event log. System-event entries and configuration-change entries do not
change color.

Text Color Alarm Severity

Red Critical: A critical alarm exists, which requires immediate action.

Orange Warning: An alarm condition requires attention and could jeopardize your data or equipment if
its cause is not addressed.

Green Alarm Cleared: The conditions that caused the alarm have improved.

Black Normal: No alarms are present. The Network Management Card and all connected devices are
operating normally.

Change the default temperature scale

Select the temperature scale (Fahrenheit or Celsius) in which to display all temperature measurements in
this user interface.

Specify the UI language

You can specify the default language for the user interface with the Language field. This can be set
when you log on also. From the drop-down box, select one of the languages displayed.

Note: You can also specify different languages for e-mail recipients and SNMP trap
receivers. See “E-mail recipients” on page 75 and “Trap Receivers” on page 76.

Specify a default login page

Configure the Web page that will display by default when any user logs in.

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Reset the Management Card
Path: Administration > General > Reset/Reboot

Action Definition

Reboot Restarts the interface of the Management Card.

Management
Interface

Reset All1 Clear the Exclude TCP/IP check box to reset all configuration values; select the Exclude
TCP/IP check box to reset all values except TCP/IP

Reset Only1 TCP/IP settings: Set TCP/IP Configuration to DHCP & BOOTP, its default setting,
requiring that the Management Card receive its TCP/IP settings from a DHCP or BOOTP
server. See“TCP/IP and Communication Settings” on page 54.

Event configuration: Reset all changes to event configuration, by event and by group, to
their default settings.

1. Resetting may take up to one minute. The UPS name will not be reset.

Configure Links
Path: Administration > General > Quick Links
Select the Administration tab, General on the top menu bar, and Quick Links on the left navigation
menu to view and change the URL links displayed at the bottom left of each page of the interface.

By default, these links access the following Web pages:

• Link 1: The home page of the APC Web site.

• Link 2: A page where you can use samples of American Power Conversion Web-enabled
products.
• Link 3: The home page of the Remote Monitoring Service.
To reconfigure any of the following, click the link name in the Display column:

• Display: The short link name displayed on each interface page

• Name: A name that fully identifies the target or purpose of the link
• Address: Any URL — for example, the URL of another device or server

About the Management Card

Path: Administration > General > About
The hardware information is useful to APC Customer Support for troubleshooting problems with the
Management Card. The serial number and MAC address are also available on the Management Card.

Firmware information for the Application Module, the APC OS (AOS), and the Boot Monitor indicates
the name, the firmware version, and the date and time each firmware module was created. This
information is also useful in troubleshooting and enables you to determine if updated firmware is
available at the APC Web site.

Management Uptime is the length of time the interface has been running continuously.

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Device IP Configuration Wizard
Capabilities, Requirements, and Installation
How to use the Wizard to configure TCP/IP settings

The Device IP Configuration Wizard configures the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway of one
or more Network Management Cards or American Power Conversion network-enabled devices (devices
containing an embedded Management Card). You can use the Wizard in either of the following ways:

• Remotely over your TCP/IP network to discover and configure unconfigured Management Cards
or devices on the same network segment as the computer running the Wizard.
• Through a direct connection from a serial port of your computer to a Management Card or device
to configure or reconfigure it.

System requirements

The Wizard runs on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server® 2003, and Windows XP operating
systems.

Installation

To install the Wizard from the Utility CD:

1. 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.
2. Click Device IP Configuration Wizard and follow the instructions.

To install the Wizard from a downloaded executable file:

1. Go to www.apc/tools/download.
2. Download the Device IP Configuration Wizard.
3. Run the executable file in the folder to which you downloaded it.

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Use the Wizard
Note: Most software firewalls must be temporarily disabled for the Wizard to discover
unconfigured Network Management Cards.

Configure the basic TCP/IP settings remotely

Prepare to configure the settings. Before you run the Wizard:

1. Contact your network administrator to obtain valid TCP/IP settings.

2. If you are configuring multiple unconfigured Management Cards or network-enabled devices,
obtain the MAC address of each one to identify it when the Wizard discovers it. (The Wizard
displays the MAC address on the screen on which you then enter the TCP/IP settings.)
– For a Management Card that you install, the MAC address is on a label on the bottom of the
card.
– For a network-enabled device (with an embedded Management Card), the MAC address is on
a label on the device.
– You can also obtain the MAC address from the Quality Assurance slip that came with the
Management Card or device.
Run the Wizard to perform the configuration. To discover and configure the unconfigured
Management Cards or network-enabled devices over the network:

1. From the Start menu, launch the Wizard. The Wizard detects the first Management Card or
network-enabled device that is not configured.
2. Select Remotely (over the network), and click Next >.
3. Enter the system IP, subnet mask, and default gateway for the Management Card or device
identified by the MAC address. Click Next >.
On the Transmit Current Settings Remotely screen, if you select the Start a Web browser
when finished check box, the default Web browser connects to the Management Card or
device after the Wizard transmits the settings.
4. Click Finish to transmit the settings. If the IP address you entered is in use on the network, the
Wizard prompts you to enter an IP address that is not in use. Enter a valid IP address, and click
Finish.
5. If the Wizard finds another unconfigured Management Card or device, it displays the screen to
enter TCP/IP settings. Repeat this procedure beginning at step 3, or to skip the Management Card
or device whose MAC address is currently displayed, click Cancel.

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Configure or reconfigure the TCP/IP settings locally

1. Contact your network administrator to obtain valid TCP/IP settings.

2. Connect the provided serial configuration cable (part number 940-0299) from an available
communications port on your computer to the serial port of the card or device. Make sure no
other application is using the computer port.
3. From the Start menu, launch the Wizard application.
4. If the Network Management Card or network-enabled device is not configured, wait for the
Wizard to detect it. Otherwise, click Next>.
5. Select Locally (through the serial port), and click Next >.
6. Enter the system IP, subnet mask, and default gateway for the Management Card or device, and
click Next >.
7. On the Transmit Current Settings Remotely screen, if you select Start a Web browser when
finished, the default Web browser connects to the Management Card or device after the Wizard
transmits the settings.
8. Click Finish to transmit the TCP/IP settings. If the IP address you entered is in use on the
network, the Wizard prompts you to enter an IP address that is not in use. Enter a valid IP
address, and click Finish.
9. If you selected Start a Web browser when finished in step 7, you can now configure other
parameters through the Web interface of the card or device.

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 How to Export Configuration Settings
Retrieving and Exporting the .ini File
Summary of the procedure

An Administrator can retrieve the .ini file of a Network Management Card and export it to another
Management Card or to multiple Management Cards.

1. Configure a Management Card to have the settings you want to export.

2. Retrieve the .ini file from that Management Card.
3. Customize the file to change at least the TCP/IP settings.
4. Use a file transfer protocol supported by the Management Card to transfer a copy to one or more
other Management Cards. For a transfer to multiple Management Cards, use an FTP or SCP
script or the American Power Conversion .ini file utility.
Each receiving Management Card uses the file to reconfigure its own settings and then deletes it.

Contents of the .ini file

The config.ini file you retrieve from a Management Card contains the following:

• section headings and keywords (only those supported for the device from which you retrieve the
file): Section headings are category names enclosed in brackets ([ ]). Keywords, under each
section heading, are labels describing specific Management Card settings. Each keyword is
followed by an equals sign and a value (either the default or a configured value).
• The Override keyword: With its default value, this keyword prevents the exporting of one or
more keywords and their device-specific values. For example, in the [NetworkTCP/IP] section,
the default value for Override (the MAC address of the Management Card) blocks the exporting
of values for the SystemIP, SubnetMask, DefaultGateway, and BootMode.

Detailed procedures
Retrieving. To set up and retrieve an .ini file to export:

1. If possible, use the interface of a Management Card to configure it with the settings to export.
Directly editing the .ini file risks introducing errors.
2. To use FTP to retrieve config.ini from the configured Management Card:
a. Open a connection to the Management Card, using its IP address:
ftp> open ip_address

b. Log on using the Administrator user name and password.

c. Retrieve the config.ini file containing the Management Card’s settings:
ftp> get config.ini

The file is written to the folder from which you launched FTP.
To retrieve configuration settings from multiple Management Cards and export them to other
Management Cards, see Release Notes: ini File Utility, version 1.0, available on the APC
Network Management Card Utility CD and at www.apc.com.

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Customizing. You must customize the file before you export it.

1. Use a text editor to customize the file.

– Section headings, keywords, and pre-defined values are not case-sensitive, but string values
that you define are case-sensitive.
– Use adjacent quotation marks to indicate no value. For example, LinkURL1="" indicates that
the URL is intentionally undefined.
– Enclose in quotation marks any values that contain leading or trailing spaces or are already
enclosed in quotation marks.
– To export scheduled events, configure the values directly in the .ini file.
– To export a system time with the greatest accuracy, if the receiving Management Cards can
access a Network Time Protocol server, configure enabled for NTPEnable:
NTPEnable=enabled

Alternatively, reduce transmission time by exporting the [SystemDate/Time] section as a

separate .ini file.
– To add comments, start each comment line with a semicolon (;).
2. Copy the customized file to another file name in the same folder:
– The file name can have up to 64 characters and must have the .ini suffix.
– Retain the original customized file for future use. The file that you retain is the only record
of your comments.
Transferring the file to a single Management Card. To transfer the .ini file to another Network
Management Card, do either of the following:

• From the Web interface of the receiving Management Card, select the Administration tab,
General on the top menu bar, and User Config File on the left navigation menu. Enter the full
path of the file, or use Browse.
• Use any file transfer protocol supported by Network Management Cards, i.e., FTP, FTP Client,
SCP, or TFTP. The following example uses FTP:
a. From the folder containing the copy of the customized .ini file, use FTP to log in to the
Management Card to which you are exporting the .ini file:
ftp> open ip_address

b. Export the copy of the customized .ini file to the root directory of the receiving
Management Card:
ftp> put filename.ini
Exporting the file to multiple Management Cards. To export the .ini file to multiple Network
Management Cards:

• Use FTP or SCP, but write a script that incorporates and repeats the steps used for exporting the
file to a single Management Card.
• Use a batch processing file and the American Power Conversion .ini file utility.
To create the batch file and use the utility, see Release Notes: ini File Utility, version
1.0 on the APC Network Management Card Utility CD.

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The Upload Event and Error Messages
The event and its error messages

The following event occurs when the receiving Network Management Card completes using the .ini file
to update its settings.

Configuration file upload complete, with number valid values

If a keyword, section name, or value is invalid, the upload by the receiving Management Card succeeds,
an additional event text states the error.

Event text Description

Configuration file warning: Invalid A line with an invalid keyword or value is ignored.
keyword on line number.

Configuration file warning: Invalid value

on line number.

Configuration file warning: Invalid If a section name is invalid, all keyword/value pairs in that section
section on line number. are ignored.

Configuration file warning: Keyword A keyword entered at the beginning of the file (i.e., before any
found outside of a section on line number. section headings) is ignored.

Configuration file warning: If the file is too large, an incomplete upload occurs. Reduce the
Configuration file exceeds maximum size of the file, or divide it into two files, and try uploading again.
size.

Messages in config.ini

A device associated with the Management Card from which you download the config.ini file must be
discovered successfully in order for its configuration to be included. If the device (such as a UPS) is not
present or, for another reason, is not discovered, the config.ini file contains a message under the
appropriate section name, instead of keywords and values. For example:

UPS not discovered

IEM not discovered
If you did not intend to export the configuration of the device as part of the .ini file import, ignore these
messages.

Errors generated by overridden values

The Override keyword and its value will generate error messages in the event log when it blocks the
exporting of values.

See “Contents of the .ini file” on page 79 for information about which values are overridden.

Because the overridden values are device-specific and not appropriate to export to other Management
Cards, ignore these error messages. To prevent these error messages, you can delete the lines that contain
the Override keyword and the lines that contain the values that they override. Do not delete or change
the line containing the section heading.

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Related Topics
On Windows operating systems, instead of transferring .ini files, you can use the Device IP
Configuration Wizard to update the basic TCP/IP settings of the Management Card and configure other
settings through its user interface.

See “Device IP Configuration Wizard” on page 76.

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File Transfers
How to Upgrade Firmware
Benefits of upgrading firmware

When you upgrade the firmware on the Network Management Card:

• You obtain the latest bug fixes and performance improvements.

• New features become available for immediate use.
Keeping the firmware versions consistent across your network ensures that all Management Cards
support the same features in the same manner.

Firmware files (Network Management Card)

A firmware version consists of three modules: An APC Operating System (AOS) module, an application
module, and a boot monitor (bootmon) module. Each module contains one or more Cyclical Redundancy
Checks (CRCs) to protect its data from corruption during transfer.

The APC Operating System (AOS), application, and boot monitor module files used with the
Management Card share the same basic format:

apc_hardware-version_type_firmware-version.bin
• apc: Indicates that this is an American Power Conversion file.
• hardware-version: hw0x identifies the version of the hardware on which you can use this
binary file.
• type: Identifies whether the file is for the APC Operating System (AOS) module, the application
module, or the boot monitor module for the Management Card.
• firmware-version: Identifies the version number of the file.
• bin: Indicates that this is a binary file.

Obtain the latest firmware version

Note: In a manual upgrade, you can skip the bootmon installation if there are no updates.
With the NMC2 Firmware Upgrade Utility, any bootmon update is automatic.

NMC2 Firmware Upgrade Utility for Microsoft Windows systems. The NMC2 Firmware Upgrade
Utility automates the transferring of the firmware modules on any supported Windows operating system.
Obtain the latest version of the utility at no cost from www.apcc.com/tools/download. At this Web
page, find the latest firmware release for your American Power Conversion product and, included in it,
the automated utility. Never use a utility designated for one American Power Conversion product to
upgrade the firmware of another American Power Conversion product.

Manual upgrades, primarily for Linux systems. If no computer on your network is running a
Microsoft Windows operating system, you must upgrade the firmware of your Management Cards by
using the separate AOS and application firmware modules.

Obtain the individual firmware modules for your firmware upgrade by downloading the automated tool
from www.apcc.com/tools/download, then extracting the firmware files from the tool.

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 Note: In manual upgrades, load the boot monitor module first, then the American Power
Conversion operating system module, and finally, the application module.

To extract the firmware files:

1. Run the NMC2 Firmware Upgrade Utility.

2. At the prompts, click Next>, and then specify the directory location to which the files will be
extracted.
3. When the Extraction Complete message displays, close the dialog box.

Firmware File Transfer Methods

To upgrade the firmware of a Management Card, use one of these methods:

• From a networked computer running a Microsoft Windows operating system, use the NMC2
Firmware Upgrade Utility downloaded from the APC Web site.

Note: The utility only works with a Management Card that has an IPv4 address.

• From a networked computer on any supported operating system, use FTP or SCP to transfer the
individual AOS and application firmware modules.
• For a Network Management Card that is not on your network, use XMODEM through a serial
connection to transfer the individual firmware modules from your computer to the Management
Card.
Warning: When you transfer individual firmware modules, you must transfer the
APC Operating System (AOS) module to the Management Card before you transfer
the application module.
• Use a USB drive to transfer the individual firmware modules from your computer to the NMC.

Use FTP or SCP to upgrade one Management Card

FTP. For you to use FTP to upgrade one Management Card over the network:

• The Management Card must be connected to the network, and its system IP, subnet mask, and
default gateway must be configured.
• The FTP server must be enabled at the Management Card.
• The firmware files must be extracted from the firmware upgrade tool (see “To extract the
firmware files:” on page 84).

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 To transfer the files:

1. Open a command prompt window of a computer on the network. Go to the directory that contains
the firmware files, and list the files:
C:\>cd\apc
C:\apc>dir
For the listed files, xxx represents the firmware version number:

• apc_hw05_aos_xxx.bin

• apc_hw05_application_xxx.bin
2. Open an FTP client session:
C:\apc>ftp
3. Type open and the IP address of the Management Card, and press ENTER. If the port setting for
the FTP Server has changed from its default of 21, you must use the non-default value in the FTP
command.
• For Windows FTP clients, separate a non-default port number from the IP address by a
space. For example:
ftp> open 150.250.6.10 21000

• Some FTP clients require a colon instead of a space before the port number.
4. Log on as Administrator; apc is the default user name and password.
5. Upgrade the AOS. (In the example, xxx is the firmware version number):
ftp> bin
ftp> put apc_hw05_aos_xxx.bin
6. When FTP confirms the transfer, type quit to close the session.
7. After 20 seconds, repeat step 2 through step 6. In step 5, use the application module file name.
SCP. To use Secure CoPy (SCP) to upgrade firmware for the Management Card:

1. Identify and locate the firmware modules as described in the preceding instructions for FTP.
2. Use an SCP command line to transfer the AOS firmware module to the Management Card. The
following example uses xxx to represent the version number of the AOS module:
scp apc_hw05_aos_xxx.bin apc@158.205.6.185:apc_hw05_aos_xxx.bin
3. Use a similar SCP command line, with the name of the application module, to transfer the
application firmware module to the Management Card.

How to upgrade multiple Management Cards

Export configuration settings. You can create batch files and use an American Power Conversion
utility to retrieve configuration settings from multiple Management Cards and export them to other
Management Cards.

See Release Notes: ini File Utility, version 1.0, available on the APC Network Management
Card Utility CD.

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 Use FTP or SCP to upgrade multiple Management Cards. To upgrade multiple Network
Management Cards using an FTP client or using SCP, write a script which automatically performs the
procedure.

Using the NMC2 Firmware Upgrade Utility for multiple upgrades

After downloading from the American Power Conversion website, double click on the exe file to run the
utility (which ONLY works with IPv4) and follow these steps to upgrade your firmware:

1. Type in an IP address, a user name, and a password, and choose the Ping button if you need to
verify an IP address.
2. Choose the Device List button to open the iplist.txt file. This should list any device IP,
user name, and password, for example,
SystemIP=192.168.0.1
SystemUserName=apc
SystemPassword=apc
The new utility works fine with any existing iplist.txt file that you have used with the
old version of the utility.
3. Select the Upgrade From Device List check box to use the iplist.txt file. Clear this check
box to upgrade the firmware using the IP, user name and password you typed on the dialog box.
4. Choose the Upgrade Now button to start the firmware version update(s).
Choose View Log to verify any upgrade.

Use XMODEM to upgrade one Management Card

To use XMODEM to upgrade one Management Card that is not on the network, you must extract the
firmware files from the firmware upgrade tool (see “To extract the firmware files:” on page 84).

To transfer the files:

1. Select a serial port at the local computer and disable any service that uses the port.
2. Connect the provided serial configuration cable (part number 940-0299) to the selected port and
to the serial port at the Management Card.
3. Run a terminal program such as HyperTerminal, and configure the selected port for 57600 bps, 8
data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, and no flow control.
4. Press the Reset button on the Management Card, then immediately press the ENTER key twice, or
until the Boot Monitor prompt displays:
BM>
5. Type XMODEM, then press ENTER.
6. From the terminal program’s menu, select XMODEM, then select the binary AOS firmware file
to transfer using XMODEM. After the XMODEM transfer is complete, the Boot Monitor prompt
returns.
7. To install the application module, repeat step 5 and step 6. In step 6, use the application module
file name.
8. Type reset or press the Reset button to restart the Management Card.
For information about the format used for firmware modules, see “Firmware files
(Network Management Card)” on page 83.

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Use a USB drive to transfer the files

Note: Before starting the transfer, make sure the USB drive is formatted in FAT32.

1. Download the update files and unzip them.

2. Create a folder named apcfirm on the USB drive.
3. Place the extracted files in the apcfirm directory.
4. Insert the USB drive into any USB port on the Network Management Card 2.
5. Reset the Network Management Card 2 and wait for the card to reboot fully.
6. Check that the upgrade was completed successfully using the procedures in “Verifying Upgrades
and Updates” on page 87.

Verifying Upgrades and Updates

Verify the success or failure of the transfer

To verify whether a firmware upgrade succeeded, use the xferStatus command in the command line
interface to view the last transfer result, or use an SNMP GET to the
mfiletransferStatusLastTransferResult OID.

Last Transfer Result codes

Code Description

Successful The file transfer was successful.

Result not available There are no recorded file transfers.

Failure unknown The last file transfer failed for an unknown reason.

Server inaccessible The TFTP or FTP server could not be found on the network.

Server access denied The TFTP or FTP server denied access.

File not found The TFTP or FTP server could not locate the requested file.

File type unknown The file was downloaded but the contents were not recognized.

File corrupt The file was downloaded but at least one Cyclical Redundancy Check (CRC) failed.

Verify the version numbers of installed firmware.

Use the Web interface to verify the versions of the upgraded firmware modules by selecting the
Administration tab, General on the top menu bar, and About on the left navigation menu, or use an
SNMP GET to the MIB II sysDescr OID. In the command line interface, use the about command.

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Adding and Changing Language Packs
Note: Language packs are not available for the MGE Galaxy 300 or MGE Galaxy 7000. The
Symmetra PX 250 and Symmetra PX 500 do not support Italian or Japanese as options for the
language packs.

The Network Management Card 2 language pack files contain the information required to display the
user interface in languages other than English. Each language pack can contain up to five languages (this
is why the Language drop-down box has up to five languages to choose from when you log on).

The full list of available languages is French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian,
Korean, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. The language pack files are available for distribution through
your Field Service Engineer. The labelling tells you the languages in each pack and the product line, e.g.
Symmetra, Symmetra 3-Phase, and Smart-UPS.

To use a language that is not currently available on your user interface, download the language pack from
the website, and follow these steps:

1. Connect to the Management Card using FTP.

2. Transfer the required language pack to the Management Card. For example, type:
put <full path/language pack name>.lpk
3. When the file finishes the transfer, log off FTP and the Management Card will reboot.
4. When the reboot is complete, the new language pack is ready for use.
Note: Any current language pack on the card is deleted before the new pack is transferred.
Any problem with the pack transfer leaves the Management Card with no language pack.
Only English is available in that circumstance. If this happens, re-load the new language
pack.

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Troubleshooting
Management Card Access Problems
For problems that are not described here, see the troubleshooting flowcharts on the APC
Network Management Card Utility CD. Click the Troubleshooting link in the CD interface.

If the problem still persists, see “APC Worldwide Customer Support” on page 96.

Problem Solution

Unable to ping the Management If the Management Card’s Status LED is green, try to ping another node on
Card the same network segment as the Management Card. If that fails, it is not a
problem with the Management Card. If the Status LED is not green, or if
the ping test succeeds, perform the following checks:
• Verify that the Management Card is properly seated in the UPS.
• Verify all network connections.
• Verify the IP addresses of the Management Card and the NMS.
• If the NMS is on a different physical network (or subnetwork) from the
Management Card, verify the IP address of the default gateway (or
router).
• Verify the number of subnet bits for the Management Card’s subnet mask.

Cannot allocate the Before you can use a terminal program to configure the Management Card,
communications port through a you must shut down any application, service, or program using the
terminal program communications port.

Cannot access the command line Make sure that you did not change the baud rate. Try 2400, 9600, 19200, or
interface through a serial 38400.
connection

Cannot access the command line • Make sure you are using the correct access method, Telnet or Secure SHell
interface remotely (SSH). An Administrator can enable these access methods. By default,
Telnet is enabled. Enabling SSH automatically disables Telnet.
• For SSH, the Management Card may be creating a host key. The
Management Card can take up to one minute to create the host key, and
SSH is inaccessible for that time.

Cannot access the Web interface • Verify that HTTP or HTTPS access is enabled.
• Make sure you are specifying the correct URL — one that is consistent
with the security system used by the Management Card. SSL requires
https, not http, at the beginning of the URL.
• Verify that you can ping the Management Card.
• Verify that you are using a Web browser supported for the Management
Card. See “Supported Web browsers” on page 28.
• If the Management Card has just restarted and SSL security is being set
up, the Management Card may be generating a server certificate. The
Management Card can take up to one minute to create this certificate, and
the SSL server is not available during that time.

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SNMP Issues
Problem Solution

Unable to perform a • Verify the read (GET) community name (SNMPv1) or the user profile configuration
GET (SNMPv3).
• Use the command line interface or Web interface to ensure that the NMS has access.
See “SNMP” on page 61.

Unable to perform a • Verify the read/write (SET) community name(SNMPv1) or the user profile
SET configuration (SNMPv3).
• Use the command line interface or Web interface to ensure that the NMS has write
(SET) access (SNMPv1) or is granted access to the target IP address through the
access control list (SNMPv3). See “SNMP” on page 61.

Unable to receive • Make sure the trap type (SNMPv1 or SNMPv3) is correctly configured for the NMS
traps at the NMS as a trap receiver.
• For SNMP v1, query the mconfigTrapReceiverTable APC MIB OID to verify that
the NMS IP address is listed correctly and that the community name defined for the
NMS matches the community name in the table. If either is not correct, use SETs to
the mconfigTrapReceiverTable OIDs, or use the command line interface or Web
interface to correct the trap receiver definition.
• For SNMPv3, check the user profile configuration for the NMS, and run a trap test.

See “SNMP” on page 61, “Trap Receivers” on page 69, and “SNMP Trap Test” on
page 69.

Traps received at an See your NMS documentation to verify that the traps are properly integrated in the
NMS are not alarm/trap database.
identified

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 Appendix A: List of Supported Commands
? modbus
[-p]
about [-a [enable | disable]]
[-br [9600 | 19200]]
alarmcount
[-pr [even | odd | none]]
[-p [all | warning | critical]]
[-s <slave # in hex>]
boot [-o [master | slave]]
[-b <dhcp | bootp | manual>] [-rt <timeout in mSec>]
[-c <dhcp cookie> [enable | disable]] [-sr <scan rate in mSec>]
[-v <vendor class>] [-rep <# of repetitions>]
[-i <client id>] [-ResetToDef]
[-u <user class>]
netstat
cd ntp
[-OM [enable | disable]]
console [-p <primary NTP server>]
[-S <disable | telnet | ssh>] [-s <secondary NTP server>]
[-pt <telnet port #>]
[-ps <ssh port #>] ping
[-b <baud rate> [2400 | 9600 | 19200 | 38400]] [<IP address or DNS name>]

date portspeed
[-d <“datestring”>] [-s [auto | 10H | 10F | 100H | 100F]]
[-t <00:00:00>]
[-f [mm/dd/yy | dd.mm.yyyy | mmm-dd-yy | prompt
dd-mmm-yy | yyyy-mm-dd]] [-s [long | short]]
[-z <time zone offset>]
quit
delete
radius
dir [-a <access> [local | radiusLocal | radius]]
[-p# <server IP>]
dns [-s# <server secret>]
[-OM [enable | disable]] [-t# <server timeout>]
[-p <primary DNS server>]
[-s <secondary DNS server>] reboot
[-d <domain name>]
[-n <domain name IPv6>] resetToDef
[-h <host name>] [-p [all | keepip]]

eventlog snmp
[-S [enable|disable]]
exit
snmp3
format [-S [enable|disable]]

ftp system
[-p <port number>] [-n <system name>]
[-S <enable | disable>] [-c <system contact>]
[-l <system location>]
help

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tcpip
[-S [enable | disable]]
[-i <IP address>]
[-s <subnet mask>]
[-g <gateway>]
[-d <domain name>]
[-h <host name>]

tcpip6
[-S [enable | disable]]
[-man [enable | disable]]
[-auto [enable | disable]]
[-i <IPv6 address>]
[-g <IPv6 gateway>]
[-d6 [router | stateful | stateless | never]]
tls
[-p]
[-a [enable | disable]]
[-m <slave # in hex> <call cause mask in hex>]
[-t [primary | secondary] <telephone #>]
[-si <# of connected UPS><slaveID1 in hex>...]
[-id <slave ID in hex> <id>]
[-d <delay in seconds>]
[-test [appearance | disappearance] <bit position>]
[-initstr [apc | mge | <any other string>]]
[-dialstr [apc | mge | <any other string>]]
[-resettodef]

uio
[-rc <dI> [open | close]
[-st <port # | port #]]
[-disc <port # | port #]]

ups
[-input [<phase#> | all] [voltage | current | frequency | all]]
[-bypass [<phase#> | all] [voltage | current | frequency | all]]
[-output [<phase#> | all] [voltage | current | load | percload | pf | frequency | all]]
[-batt]
[-about]
[-al [c | w]]

user
[-an <Administrator name>]
[-dn <Device User name>]
[-rn <Read-Only User name>]
[-ap <Administrator password>]
[-dp <Device User password>]
[-rp <Read-Only User password>]
[-t <inactivity timeout in minutes>]

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 web
[-S <disable | http | https>]
[-ph <http port #>]
[-ps <https port #>]

xferINI

xferStatus

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Two-Year Factory Warranty
This warranty applies only to the products you purchase for your use in accordance with this manual.

Terms of warranty

APC warrants its products to be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of two
years from the date of purchase. APC will repair or replace defective products covered by this warranty.
This warranty does not apply to equipment that has been damaged by accident, negligence or
misapplication or has been altered or modified in any way. Repair or replacement of a defective product
or part thereof does not extend the original warranty period. Any parts furnished under this warranty may
be new or factory-remanufactured.

Non-transferable warranty

This warranty extends only to the original purchaser who must have properly registered the product. The
product may be registered at the APC Web site, www.apc.com.

Exclusions

APC shall not be liable under the warranty if its testing and examination disclose that the alleged defect
in the product does not exist or was caused by end user’s or any third person’s misuse, negligence,
improper installation or testing. Further, APC shall not be liable under the warranty for unauthorized
attempts to repair or modify wrong or inadequate electrical voltage or connection, inappropriate on-site
operation conditions, corrosive atmosphere, repair, installation, exposure to the elements, Acts of God,
fire, theft, or installation contrary to APC recommendations or specifications or in any event if the APC
serial number has been altered, defaced, or removed, or any other cause beyond the range of the intended
use.

THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY OPERATION OF LAW OR

OTHERWISE, OF PRODUCTS SOLD, SERVICED OR FURNISHED UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT OR IN CONNECTION HEREWITH. APC DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED
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OUT OF, APC RENDERING OF TECHNICAL OR OTHER ADVICE OR SERVICE IN
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IN NO EVENT SHALL APC, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AFFILIATES OR EMPLOYEES

BE LIABLE FOR ANY FORM OF INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE
DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF THE USE, SERVICE OR INSTALLATION, OF THE
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IRRESPECTIVE OF FAULT, NEGLIGENCE OR STRICT LIABILITY OR WHETHER APC
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SPECIFICALLY, APC IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY COSTS, SUCH AS LOST PROFITS OR
REVENUE, LOSS OF EQUIPMENT, LOSS OF USE OF EQUIPMENT, LOSS OF SOFTWARE,
LOSS OF DATA, COSTS OF SUBSTITUENTS, CLAIMS BY THIRD PARTIES, OR
OTHERWISE.

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 NO SALESMAN, EMPLOYEE OR AGENT OF APC IS AUTHORIZED TO ADD TO OR VARY
THE TERMS OF THIS WARRANTY. WARRANTY TERMS MAY BE MODIFIED, IF AT ALL,
ONLY IN WRITING SIGNED BY AN APC OFFICER AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT.

Warranty claims

Customers with warranty claims issues may access the APC customer support network through the
Support page of the APC Web site, www.apc.com/support. Select your country from the country
selection pull-down menu at the top of the Web page. Select the Support tab to obtain contact
information for customer support in your region.

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 APC Worldwide Customer Support
Customer support for this or any other APC product is available at no charge in any of the following ways:
• Visit the APC Web site to access documents in the APC Knowledge Base and to submit customer
support requests.
– www.apc.com (Corporate Headquarters)
Connect to localized APC Web sites for specific countries, each of which provides customer support
information.
– www.apc.com/support/
Global support searching APC Knowledge Base and using e-support.
• Contact the APC Customer Support Center by telephone or e-mail.
– Local, country-specific centers: go to www.apc.com/support/contact for contact information.

For information on how to obtain local customer support, contact the APC representative or other distributors
from whom you purchased your APC product.

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