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PowerPanel Business Edition
USER MANUAL
Rev. 0.9
2007/10/26
Copyright © 2006-2007 Cyber Power Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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® PowerPanel Business Edition ® PowerPanel Business Edition USER’S MANUAL ® PowerPanel Business Edition provides power management Services. PowerPanel Business Edition consists of Agent and Slave. Agent provides a service to monitor status and configure the Battery Backup. It records status of the Battery Backup and power events, and generates actions in response to events. Slave provides a service to establish the communication with Agent and generates actions according to the no
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® PowerPanel Business Edition CONTENT MONITOR THE BATTERY BACKUP STATUS AND VIEW THE BATTERY BACKUP INFORMATION [AGENT ONLY] ............................................................4 Battery Backup status monitoring.........................................................................................................4 Input..................................................................................................................................................................
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® PowerPanel Business Edition Configure Settings of Event Actions for the Selected Event ..........................................21 Configure Overall Action Settings....................................................................................................23 VIEW THE LOGS AND CONFIGURE LOGGING OPTIONS ..........................26 Event Log..............................................................................................................................................
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® PowerPanel Business Edition MONITOR THE BATTERY BACKUP STATUS AND VIEW THE BATTERY BACKUP INFORMATION [AGENT ONLY] • Battery Backup status monitoring • View Battery Backup information Battery Backup status monitoring The Battery Backup Status page displays the Battery Backup status. The Status page is the default logon page of PowerPanel Business Edition Agent. The Battery Backup Status page displays four types of data about the Battery Backup as follows: • Utility, see Input. •
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® PowerPanel Business Edition o *Buck: The present input voltage of utility power is too high. The Battery Backup will decrease output voltage to normal range. o Overload: The present load exceeds the maximum load the Battery Backup can support. o Unknown: This is an abnormal status. • Voltage: The present power voltage the Battery Backup is supplying to the connected equipment. • Frequency: The present power frequency the Battery Backup is supplying to the connected equipment. • Loa
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® PowerPanel Business Edition • Status: Displays the present operating status of the Battery Backup. o Normal: The system status is normal. o *Fault: The system is in fault state due to an internal malfunction. o *Overheat: The temperature exceeds the normal temperature threshold. o Unknown: This is an abnormal status. • *Temperature: The present internal operating temperature of the Battery Backup case. View Battery Backup Information Information The Battery Backup Information pag
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® PowerPanel Business Edition VIEW THE POWER SYSTEM INFORMATION AND CONFIGURE POWER SYSTEM LOCATION [SLAVE ONLY] • Introduction to Power System • View Power System information • Configure Power System address Introduction to Power System A Power System is the system that manages and controls the Battery Backup. The Power System supplies the power you need and other equipment need. If you connect the Battery Backup with a computer by serial or USB cable, that computer should be instal
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® PowerPanel Business Edition The Power System Location page lets you configure the power system address and view the connection state of Power System. According to your Power System type, you may need to type Agent's address or PMU's address in the Address field. When the address is configured, you will see the connection state of Power System. Power System is the system connected to the Battery Backup directly. The Power System Information page is available only when the connection st
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® PowerPanel Business Edition CONFIGURE THE BATTERY BACKUP SETTINGS AND PERFORM DIAGNOSTICS [AGENT ONLY] • Configure the Battery Backup • Run Diagnostics on the Battery Backup Configure the Battery Backup The Battery Backup Configuration page allows you to configure Input, Output, Battery, and System for the Battery Backup. Input • *Conditions to use battery power: Sets the thresholds to use battery power according to utility power voltage and utility power frequency. If the thres
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® PowerPanel Business Edition o Turn off when utility power fails for minutes: Sets how long the utility power is off before turning off this outlet. The valid value is 0- 120. o Turn on when utility power restores for minutes: Sets how long the utility power has restored before turning on this outlet. The valid value is 0-120. • *Enter bypass mode once the Battery Backup is overloaded: If you enable this option, the Battery Backup will supply utility power directly to the load when th
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® PowerPanel Business Edition • *Restore power when the batteries have been charged to a percentage of battery capacity: Sets how much battery capacity must be present for the Battery Backup to restore power. 0% means the Battery Backup will restore power immediately. Note: This setting is available only if Wake up the Battery Backup when utility power is restored is enabled. • *Output Frequency determination: Sets the frequency of output power supplied to the connected equipment. You c
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® PowerPanel Business Edition • The Battery Backup alarm is: If you enable this option, the Battery Backup alarm will sound when it switches to battery mode. Configuration options: [enabled][disabled] • *Overloaded warning when the load exceeds a percentage: Sets the threshold for the overload warning. When the load exceeds the threshold, the Battery Backup will issue a warning and event output is overload will occur. This setting is available after the Battery Backup is restarted. Att
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® PowerPanel Business Edition The runtime calibration synchronizes the runtime estimate with the current load and battery capacity. When a runtime calibration initiates, Calibration is initiated event occurs. A runtime calibration will discharge the batteries. The batteries will be completely discharged after the calibration. The batteries will be recharged automatically following a calibration. Note: Frequent calibration will shorten the life of batteries. We recommend one or two calib
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® PowerPanel Business Edition CONFIGURE PROTECTED SYSTEM AND VIEW THE SUMMARY • Configure protected system identification • Configure protected system connected equipment • View the system summary Configure protected system identification The Protected System Identification page allows you to set the system information and security. Information • Name: The description or name of the system. • Contact: Who to contact when there are problems with this system. • Location: Where the
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® PowerPanel Business Edition SNMP-TRAP community key: Find this setting on Network- >Trap Notification page. Add a TrapReceiver and type Slave IP and community key to fill the fields. • SNMP-Request community key: Find this setting on Network->Access Control page. Set the access control community key and it should have at least read permission. Note: Because the SNMP community key is limited to 15 characters, thus you have to shorten the phase key setting to fit the limit. Note: If y
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® PowerPanel Business Edition 2. The details of the equipment will be shown in the text field of name, location, contact, and powered by which outlet. 3. Modify the details of the equipment in those text fields. 4. Click the Modify button. 5. The equipment information will be updated to equipment list below. 6. Click the Cancel button to cancel modifying an equipment • Remove equipment 1. Select the equipment from the equipment list and click it. 2. The details of the equipment will b
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® PowerPanel Business Edition CONFIGURE ACTION SETTINGS FOR DIFFERENT EVENTS • Configure Settings of Event Actions for Selected Events from the Event List. • Configure Settings of Event Actions in the Event List in Quick Setting Mode. • Configure Overall Action Settings. Configure Settings of Event Actions for Selected Events The Event Settings page displays a table listing all power events and separates them into three categories Information, Warning and Severe. This table shows t
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® PowerPanel Business Edition overloaded Battery-test failure The battery-test failed to provide battery power normally. Batteries are not Batteries are not present; the Battery Backup cannot present provide battery power in this condition. Batteries need to be Batteries may not work well any more; they need to be replaced replaced with new ones. Communication lost Communication with device has been lost. Communication Communication cannot establish during startup. cannot es
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® PowerPanel Business Edition Leaves bypass Leaves bypass mode and switch to line mode or battery mode mode, battery power will be used. Battery-test is The Battery test was successful, battery power is normal. successful Battery-test The Battery test initiated to verify that battery power can initiated be provided normally. Battery is charging The battery starts to charge, the battery capacity will increase. Battery stopped The battery stopped charging, the battery capacity w
