Power Management

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.
Virtualisation: Network card and IPM
IPM is the industry leader integrating power with virtualisation 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.

View all Eaton software designed to manage and monitor your UPS and other power quality equipment.

Power Management Software

Firmware Upgrades

Enterprise Power Monitoring Software

Power Xpert Software Power Xpert Reporting Foreseer

DC Power Control and Monitoring Software

PowerManagerII DCTools

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