Depending upon your application and its requirements, there are four basic ways to manage and communicate with your UPS:
Single UPS: Network card
You can usually monitor a single UPS through an optional network card. Our network cards are essentially their own servers, so they record event history, send email and text message alerts, and provide remote access to real-time status. Using a network card is usually the best way to manage one UPS.
Shutdown: Network card and Intelligent Power Protector (IPP)
If your UPS is protecting servers, you can use our software to schedule safe shutdowns and prevent data loss in the event of a prolonged power outage. For an Eaton UPS with a network card, IPP is the Eaton shutdown agent.
IPP communicates directly with the network card (or over USB and serial if needed) to register itself and receive alerts to initiate soft shutdown of your IT systems.
Multiple UPS installations: Network cards and Intelligent Power Manager (IPM)
For multiple UPSs spread out across a network closet, campus or enterprise, IPM software is designed to aggregate and manage your power devices (both UPSs and network-enabled ePDU products).
Virtualization: Network card and IPM
IPM is the industry leader integrating power with virtualization platforms. The IPM shutdown agent management enables safe shutdown of virtualized servers—even servers in clusters running vCenter or XenCenter. Live migrations can be triggered to transparently move virtual machines to an available server on the network, for data integrity and zero downtime.
Find the best connectivity card for your needs:
View a complete listing of our connectivity products
Gigabit Network Card
The Eaton Gigabit Network card (Network-M2) is Eaton’s latest UPS connectivity device that delivers IT professionals with new and exciting capabilities and features. Function: Web/SNMP
Works with: 5P, 5PX, 9PX, 9SX, 93E, 9PXM, 93PM
Network Card-MS
The Eaton Network Card-MS allows an Eaton UPS to directly connect to the Ethernet network and the Internet, supporting real-time monitoring and control of UPSs across the network via a standard Web browser, SNMP-compliant network management system or power management software. Function: Web/SNMP
Works with: 5P, 5PX, 5SC, 5130, 9130, 91PS, 93PS, 9PX, Evolution, EX, 93E
ConnectUPS-BD Web/SNMP Device
The ConnectUPS-BD is a network card for Powerware
series Eaton UPS systems that enable remote
monitoring and provide HTTP, SNMP, SMTP, WAP,
Telnet, SSL, SSH compatibility and advanced
RS232 communications. Function: Web/SNMP
Works with: 9130, 9170+
ConnectUPS-E Web/SNMP Device
The ConnectUPS-E is a network card for Powerware
series Eaton UPS systems that enable remote
monitoring and provide HTTP, SNMP, SMTP, WAP,
Telnet, SSL, SSH compatibility and advanced
RS232 communications. Function: Web/SNMP
Works with: legacy 9150, legacy 9305
Power Xpert Gateway PDP Card
Eaton’s Power Xpert Gateway PDP Card
(the replacement for the
Power Xpert Gateway Series 1000 card)
provides Web-enabled, real-time monitoring of
three-phase Eaton Power Distribution Units and
Eaton Remote Power Panels for power quality
status and fast response to power-related events. Function: Web/SNMP
Works with: PDU, RPP, PDR, EMS Upgrade Kit,
RPM
Power Xpert Gateway UPS Card
Eaton’s Power Xpert Gateway UPS Card provides Web-enabled, real-time monitoring of
select three-phase Eaton UPSs for power quality
status and fast response to power-related events. Function: Web/SNMP, MODBUS TCP, BACNet IP; supports SNMP v1 and v3; IPv4 and v6; http, https and SMTP
Works with: 9155, BladeUPS,
9315, 9355, 9390, 9390IT, Power Xpert 9395, 9395 high performance UPS
Eaton Modbus Card
The Eaton Modbus Card is an X-Slot UPS connectivity
device that provides continuous, reliable and
accurate network monitoring of a UPS system
through a Building Management System (BMS). Function: Modbus
Works with: 5115RM, 5125, 9155, BladeUPS,
9315, 9390, 9390IT, 9395
Expansion Chassis
With the Eaton Expansion Chassis, users may
easily configure a UPS-based power management
system that supports the chosen network protocol. Function: Modbus
Works with: 5115RM, 5125, 9155, BladeUPS,
9315, 9390, 9390IT, 9395
Relay Card-MS
Relay Card-MS provides a simple way to remotely deliver UPS information to an alarm system, PLC or computer system via dry contacts (relay), or it can be an RS232 interface for connection to a computer through a DB-9 connector. Function: Relay/RS-232
Works with: 5P, 5PX, 9PX, Evolution, EX
Industrial Relay Card-MS
Industrial Relay Card-MS provides a robust relay interface to remotely deliver UPS information to alarm and automation systems with terminal block connections. Its switching relays can be wired individually to normally open or closed setup, and they support up to 250 Vac/8A. Function: Relay
Works with: EX, 5P, 5PX, 5SC, 9PX, 9SX, 9E
X-Slot Relay Interface Card
Communications and control software are at the
heart of any reliable power quality solution. Function: Relay
Works with: 5115, 5125, 9155, BladeUPS,
9315, 9390, 9390IT, 9395
BestDock Relay Interface Card
Communications and control software are at the
heart of any reliable power quality solution. Function: Relay
Works with: 9130, 9170+
Environmental Monitoring Probe
The Eaton Environmental Monitoring Probe (EMP)
enables you to remotely monitor environmental
conditions as easily as you monitor power conditions. Function: Environmental monitoring
Works with: 5115RM, 5125, 5P, 9130, 9PX, 9155, BladeUPS, 9315, 9355, 9390, 9390IT,
9395, Evolution, EX
Environmental Monitoring Probe Gen 2
Eaton Environmental Monitoring Probe (EMP) Gen 2 is a connectivity device that enables you to collect temperature and humidity readings in rack enclosures and monitor environmental data remotely. Function: Environmental monitoring
Works with: 5P, 5PX, 5SC, 9PX, 9SX
ePDU Environmental Monitoring Probe
The Environmental Monitoring Probe (EMP) is enables you to collect temperature and humidity readings in the rack environment and monitor the environmental data remotely via the onboard LCD screen or remotely using a Telnet connection or a standard web browser. Function: Environmental monitoring
Works with: Advanced Monitored ePDU, Managed ePDU