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®
PowerPanel Business Edition
Installation Guide
For
Power Distribution Unit
Rev. 6
2011/10/04
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Table of Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 Hardware Installation ...................................................................................................................................... 3 ® Install PowerPanel Business Edition Software........................................................................................... 4 Installa
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Introduction A Power Distribution Unit (PDU) provides power output controls for individual outlets to your connected ® equipment. The PDU can establish communication with PowerPanel Business Edition Center via the network. It can relay its state to Center and accepts commands to turn off or turn on the outlets. When the PDU turns off an outlet, any connected computers running PowerPanel Business Edition Client are shut down in an orderly fashion, preventing data loss or a system crash
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® Install PowerPanel Business Edition Software Installation on Windows ® A popup page will be displayed automatically when inserting the PowerPanel Business Edition installation CD. Users can click the Install PowerPanel Business Edition software shortcut on the popup page to initiate the installation procedure. If the popup page is not displayed when inserting the CD, browse to the CD drive and open the folder which locates at /Software/Windows, and then double click the file named S
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Choose the component. In order to monitor multiple PDUs, Center should be installed. In order to monitor on a single computer powered by the PDU, Client should be installed. Note: Agent should not be selected because of ability to access to UPS instead of PDU. Choose the destination directory. Choose the start menu folder. 5
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Click the Finish button to complete the installation. Installation on Linux The installer requires root permission to install the Client. The installation wizard will guide users to complete the installation. Initiate an installation wizard by running the ./ppbe210-linux-x86.sh command or double clicking ppbe210-linux-x86.sh from the desktop on 32-bit systems. Initiate an installation wizard by running the /.ppbe210-linux-x64.sh command or double clicking ppbe210-linux-x64.sh fr
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Click the Next button to start an installation. Accept the license agreement. Choose the component. In order to simultaneous monitor multiple PDU, the Center should be installed. If one single computer which is powered by the PDU requiring protection, the Client should be installed. Note: Agent should not be selected because of ability to access to UPS instead of PDU. 7
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Choose the destination directory. The daemon ppbed will start during installation. 8
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Click the Finish button to complete the installation. Note: If the Linux installation needs to be initiated in the terminal, use the ./ppbe210-linux-x86.sh –c on 32-bit systems or use the ./ppbe210-linux-x86_64.sh -c command on 64-bit systems. Detailed installation steps are described in the Installation on Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX/ESXi section. Installation on Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX/ESXi The installer is used to install the Client and requires root permission. The
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Installation for ESX server must be launched on the Service Console (aka Console Operation System); installation for ESXi server must be launched on the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) installed on the VMware ESXi host computer. Note: On ESX/ESXi, users may mount the CD by using the mount command. Run mount –t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom as a root user. /dev/cdrom is the CD drive and /mnt/cdrom will be the mount point. Note: On VMware ESXi, users can also upload the installer to v
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® Access PowerPanel Business Edition Software Interface ® To access the PowerPanel Business Edition interface in Windows, go to Start > All Programs > CyberPower PowerPanel Business Edition > PowerPanel Business Edition Center (or PowerPanel Business Edition Client) which will take you to the login page. On Linux, users can also enter the URL as http://127.0.0.1:3052/ in the address of the web browser to access to the interface. Users can also enter the URL, http://hosted_computer_i
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Either enter the PDU’s IP address on the Device Address field or click the Browse button to display the device list and select the PDU address from this list. Click OK to proceed and add the selected PDU. Note: If multiple PDUs need to be added to Center, repeat aforementioned steps. Note: Please refer to PowerPanel Business Edition User’s Manual about further details of more functions about Center. Configure Power Protection for Computers In order to ensure the computers which conn
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Setup Necessary Shutdown Time Each computer running the Client requires a sufficient time to shut down completely before the PDU turns off the connected outlet for any reason. Therefore users can set up this sufficient time at the Necessary shutdown time option on the Event Action/Settings page in the Client. When the PDU outlet powering to a computer running the Client is going to be turned off, the outlet should not be turned off by the PDU until the Client computer is shut down com
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In order to ensure the XenServer server host and all virtual machines can be shutdown correctly, users have to configure the account and password of root user for host shutdown. Fill in the Account and Password fields with actual username and password for shutdown action on the Event Action/Settings page. Configure Startup and Shutdown of Virtual Machines on VMware ESX/ESXi In order to ensure that all virtual machines and the VMware ESX/ESXi server host can be shut down and restart
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