Connectivity Cards
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.
Eaton’s Intelligent Power Protector (IPP) software provides graceful, automatic shutdown of network devices during a prolonged power disruption, preventing data loss and saving work-in-progress. As part of Eaton’s power network management system, IPP works alongside Eaton’s Intelligent Power Manager to deliver comprehensive power.
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, 9130, 9PX, Evolution, EX, 93E
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+
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
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
Eaton’s Power Xpert Gateway UPS Card (the replacement for the Power Xpert Gateway Series 2000 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
Works with: 5115RM, 5125, 9155, BladeUPS, 9315, 9355, 9390, 9390IT, 9395
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, 9390
The Eaton Network and MODBUS Card-MS combines an SNMP agent, HTTP/Web server and a MODBUS card — providing continuous, reliable and accurate remote monitoring of a UPS system through a Building Management System (BMS), Industrial Automation System (IAS) or any network monitoring system using SNMP and traps, or any web browser.
Function: MODBUS
Works with: 9130, EX, 93E
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
The new Relay Card-MS replaces select Relay cards. The card 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 PC or a UPS control display unit.
Function: Relay
Works with: 5P, 5PX, 9PX, Evolution, EX
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
Communications and control software are at the heart of any reliable power quality solution.
Function: Relay
Works with: 9130, 9170+
Continuously monitor environmental data center conditions at the UPS system rack level—ensuring power quality and power management of temperature and humidity at two locations in a rack and the status of up to four additional contact sensor devices—to protect data center and UPS equipment from potentially damaging conditions and ensure the best UPS power quality.
Function: Environmental monitoring
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
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