Environmental Monitoring Unit AP9312TH AP9312THi User’s Guide
Environmental Monitoring Unit Contents Managing the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Available interfaces—1 Configuring network settings—1 LEDs and the Reset Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Front Panel Features—2 Descriptions—2 Web Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contents Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Purpose—12 TCP/IP—12 TFTP/FTP—12 Telnet/Web—13 SNMP—14 Email (Control Console only)—15 System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Purpose—16 User Manager—16 Identification—17 Date/Time—17 File Transfer—18 Tools—19 Links (Web Interface only)—19 Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contents Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Planning and implementing security features—25 Port assignments—25 User names, passwords, community names—25 Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Environmental Monitoring Unit Managing the Unit Introduction Available interfaces The stand-alone Environmental Monitoring Unit performs continuous temperature and humidity sensing and contact monitoring. You can manage the unit through Web, Control Console, or SNMP interfaces. • • Note: Configuring network settings Remotely, you can manage the unit with a Web browser using the Web interface or with Telnet using the Control Console interface.
Managing the Unit LEDs and the Reset Button Front Panel Features The reset button and two LEDs are on the front panel of the Environmental Monitoring Unit. Descriptions No. Feature Description ! Reset button Reinitializes the unit’s network interface. " Link-RX/TX LED Off: The device that connects the unit to the network (a router, hub, or concentrator) is off or not operating correctly. Flashing green: The unit is receiving data packets from the network.
Managing the Unit Web Interface System requirements To access the Web interface, you need one of the following supported Web browsers: • • Note: Access to the Web interface Internet Explorer 3.0.2 and later Netscape 3.0 and later Some Web interface features (data verification, APC Interactive Assistant, and MD5 authentication) require that you enable Java Script and/or Java. For MD5 to function properly, you must also have cookies enabled on your Web browser.
Managing the Unit Control Console Options for using the Control Console The Control Console provides comprehensive management of the unit by one of the following modes of access: Access to the Control Console Only one user at a time may access the Environmental Monitoring Unitt. Serial interface users have precedence over Telnet users, and Telnet users have precedence over Web users.
Managing the Unit Control Console continued Navigating the menus Within the menu structure: • • • • • • To select a menu item, type the item number, then press ENTER. To save changes to configurable values, use the Accept Changes menu option. To refresh the current menu, Press ENTER. To go to the previous menu, Press ESC. to access brief descriptions of the current menu items, Type ? and then press ENTER (if the menu has help available). To return to the main Control Console menu, use CTRL-C.
Managing the Unit Password-Protected User Accounts Types of accounts The Environmental Monitoring Unit provides two password-protected accounts, Administrator and Device Manager, that allow you to control access to the device.
Environmental Monitoring Unit Menu Items Introduction Interface similarities and differences The information in this section is based on the Web interface. The Control Console interface varies slightly, but offers the same capabilities for managing the Environmental Monitoring Unit. Your access to menus is determined by the account under which you logged in. See Password-Protected User Accounts on page 6.
Menu Items Environmental Monitoring Purpose Use the Environmental Monitoring menu to configure settings for monitoring contact closures and for obtaining information about the temperature and humidity sensed by up to two probes. Status: probes Item Definition Temperature Reports the temperature (Celsius) sensed by the unit’s probes. High Temperature Violation Reports whether current temperature exceeds the high temperature threshold (Yes or No) or reports that the threshold is disabled.
Menu Items Environmental Monitoring continued Status: contacts Item Device 1 (Contact Zone 1) Alarm through Device 4 (Contact Zone 4) Alarm: Status: firmware version Definition For each contact by number and name, reports whether the contact senses an alarm condition (Yes or No) or that the alarm is disabled . The status section also reports the firmware version of the Environmental Monitoring Unit.
Menu Items Events Viewing the Event Log directly The Event Log displays information for the Environmental Monitoring Unit’s last 300 events. Item Description Date The date on which the event occurred (DD/MM/YYYY) Time The time at which the event occurred (HH:MM:SS) Event Description of the event. For detailed descriptions of event codes, select APC Interactive Assistant from the Navigation Bar on the Web interface and read the page about event codes.
Menu Items Events continued Deleting the Event Log in the FTP interface To delete the Event Log, type del event.txt. FTP confirms the deletion: Requested file action okay, completed. A new event.txt file is immediately created to record the Deleted Log event. Recipients (Web interface only) Use the Recipients option of the Events menu to configure email recipients who will be notified when an event occurs. See Configuring Email Recipients on page 21.
Menu Items Network Purpose The Network menu provides access to the configurable network settings. Only the Administrator can access the Network menu. TCP/IP The TCP/IP section lists the Environmental Monitoring Unit’s start-up settings for network service and allows you to configure TCP/IP settings. . Item Definition System IP The unit’s Internet Protocol address, which is a numeric address that the domain name server translates into a domain name.
Menu Items Network continued Telnet/Web Item Definition Telnet Access Enables or disables Telnet access. Port The TCP/IP port where the Telnet server for the unit is located. Default: port 23 Web Access Enables or disables Web access. Port The TCP/IP port where the Web server for the unit is located.
Menu Items Network continued SNMP The SNMP section displays the SNMP access control and trap receiver Settings. Item Definition SNMP Access Enables or disables SNMP access. Access Control Controls access to each of the four SNMP channels. Trap Receiver Defines the NMSs (up to 4) to which traps are sent. Access Control . The Access Control section of SNMP displays the current settings for all four SNMP channels and lets you configure values for a selected channel.
Menu Items Network continued Email (Control Console only) Use the Email option of the Network menu to configure email recipients who will be notified when an event occurs. See Configuring Email Recipients on page 21. (In the Web interface, use the Recipients option of the Events menu instead.
Menu Items System Purpose Use the System menu to configure accounts, system identification, file transfers, and links. Only the Administrator has access to the System menu. User Manager Use this section to configure the properties of the Administrator and Device Manager accounts. The Administrator has unrestricted access, but the Device Manager can configure only the Environmental Monitoring Unit; not the network and system parameters.
Menu Items System continued Identification Use this section to display and configure the unit’s system identification values. The following items are configurable: Item Definition Name The unit’s system name (used as the SNMP MIB-II sysName OID). Contact The unit’s contact or owner (used as the SNMP MIB-II sysContact OID. Location The unit’s physical location (used as the SNMP MIB-II sysLocation OID Date/Time Item Definition Date The date for the system in the form of MM/DD/YYYY.
Menu Items System continued File Transfer Item Description Display the current transfer settings Remote TFTP Server IP IP address of the remote TFTP server defined in the Network menu’s TFTP/FTP settings. TFTP: Remote Server IP Remote FTP Server IP IP address of the remote FTP server defined in the Network menu’s TFTP/FTP settings. FTP: Remote Server IP Remote FTP ServerUser Name User name of the FTP server defined in the Network menu’s TFTP/FTP settings.
Menu Items System continued Tools Item Links (Web Interface only) Description No Action Causes no action. Reboot Card Re-initializes the unit’s management card. Reset Card to Defaults Restores all configuration settings to their defaults, including user accounts, and enables BOOTP. Reset Card to Defaults Except TCP/IP Restores all configuration settings (except TCP/IP) to their defaults. Use this section to configure URL links that appear on the Navigation menu at the left.
Menu Items Help Help options In the Web interface: • The Help menu is at the lower left. • The Contents page provides an overview of parameters that you can display and configure. • To access help about a page, click the ? at the end of the black title bar of that page. In the Control Console, type ? for help about the current menu. Interactive Assistant Interactive Assistant brings APC Customer Service to the Web.
Environmental Monitoring Unit Configuring and Using Email Notification Configuring Email Recipients Menu options To identify up to four email recipients, use one of the following: • • The Recipients option of the Web interface’s Events menu The Email option of the Control Console’s Network Menu Settings Setting Configuring the local SNMP server To Address Defines the user and domain names of the recipient.
Configuring and Using Email Notification Configuring SMTP and DNS Settings Requirements for using SMTP To use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send email when an event occurs, you must define the following settings: • • • The IP address of the Domain Name Service (DNS) server. The DNS name of the SMTP server and the From Address settings for SMTP. The email addresses for a maximum of four recipients.
Environmental Monitoring Unit Managing the Unit with SNMP SNMP Interface Purpose You can use PowerNet MIB OIDs to manage (monitor, configure, and control) your Environmental Monitoring Unit. PowerNet MIB OID categories Use your MIB browser to locate the PowerNet MIB OIDs that you can use to manage the Environmental Monitoring Unit: 1. Select [product] under [apc]. 2. Select [hardware]. 3.
Managing the Unit with SNMP Using the OIDs Using monitoring OIDs Use the read-only [mUpsEnviron] OIDs to view temperature and humidity values. OID Using contact OIDs Function mUpsRelativeHumidity Reports the relative humidity sensed by the probes. mUpsAmbientTmperature Reports the ambient temperature in Celsius, sensed by the probes. Use the [mUpsContact] OIDs to view and configure the current contact sensor values. OID Function mUpsContactNumContacts Lists how many contact sensors the unit uses.
Environmental Monitoring Security Security Features Planning and implementing security features As a network device that passes information across the network, the Environmental Monitoring Unit is subject to the same exposure as other devices on the network. Use the information in this section to plan and implement the security features appropriate for your environment.
Security Authentication Authentication versus encryption The Environmental Monitoring Unit controls access by providing basic authentication through user names, passwords, and IP addresses, but provides no type of encryption. These basic security features are sufficient for most environments, in which sensitive data is not being transferred.
Security Authentication continued Summary of access methods The following table describes interfaces and its access methods. Interface Security Access Notes Serial Control Console Access is by user name and password. Always enabled. Telnet Control Console These methods are available: The user name and password are transmitted as plain text.
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