PowerPanel® Business Edition Installation Guide For Power Distribution Unit Rev.
Table of Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 Hardware Installation ...................................................................................................................................... 3 ® Install PowerPanel Business Edition Software........................................................................................... 4 Installation on Windows ....
Introduction A Power Distribution Unit (PDU) provides power output controls for individual outlets to your connected ® equipment. The PDU can establish communication with PowerPanel Business Edition Center via the network. It can relay its state to Center and accepts commands to turn off or turn on the outlets.
Install PowerPanel® Business Edition Software Installation on Windows ® A popup page will be displayed automatically when inserting the PowerPanel Business Edition installation CD. Users can click the Install PowerPanel Business Edition software shortcut on the popup page to initiate the installation procedure. If the popup page is not displayed when inserting the CD, browse to the CD drive and open the folder which locates at /Software/Windows, and then double click the file named Setup.
Choose the destination directory. Choose the start menu folder.
Click the Finish button to complete the installation. Installation on Linux The installer requires root permission to install the Client. The installation wizard will guide users to complete the installation. Initiate an installation wizard by running the ./ppbe-linux-x86.sh command or double clicking ppbe-linux-x86.sh from the desktop on 32-bit systems. Initiate an installation wizard by running the /.ppbe-linux-x64.sh command or double clicking ppbe-linux-x64.sh from desktop on 64-bit systems.
Choose the component. In order to simultaneous monitor multiple PDU, the Center should be installed. If one single computer which is powered by the PDU requiring protection, the Client should be installed. Note: Agent should not be selected because of ability to access to UPS instead of PDU. Choose the destination directory.
The daemon ppbed will start during installation. Click the Finish button to complete the installation.
Installation on Text Mode When the system does not support graphic mode, the Linux installation needs to be initiated in the terminal by using the ./ppbe-linux-x86.sh -c command on 32-bit systems or use ./ppbe-linux-x86_64.sh -c command on 64-bit systems. The installation procedure will be initiated as following steps: Press Enter to start an installation. Accept the license agreement. Choose the component. In order to simultaneous monitor multiple PDU, Center should be installed.
enter the ESXi host IP address to access the web page. Users can visit VMware website for vSphere Management Assistant Guide document about vMA deployment on VMware ESXi. The installer will guide users in completing the installation. Refer to Installation on Text Mode section to follow the same steps to complete installation. The installer requires root permission to initiate the installation procedure. Mount CD by running mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom as a root user.
Click Browse to import the ppbeXXX_centos.ovf extracted from the download zip file. Click Next to start a deployment task. The OVF template detail is displayed. Click Next to continue. Enter the name for the deployed PPBE virtual appliance. This name should be unique within the inventory.
Select the virtual disk format for the PPBE virtual appliance. The default option is Thin Provision. Refer to About Virtual Disk Provision Disk Policies for further information about how to select virtual disk format. A deployment detail is displayed. Click Finish to start the deployment task.
After the deployment task is complete, the PPBE virtual appliance will be added into the inventory. Click Power on the virtual machine to power on the virtual machine and ready to access the Agent. Login the virtual appliance. The default username and password are admin.
accurately, you must change the time zone settings of the virtual appliance. This can be a direct copy of the time zone file from the /usr/share/zoneinfo folder. We assume that the host is located under the Chicago CST zone in Chicago, and the time zone can be changed by running the command cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime. Installation on XenServer ® The installer requires root permission to install the PowerPanel Business Edition.
Business Edition Client) which will take you to the login page. On Linux, users can also enter the URL as http://localhost:3052/ in the address of the web browser to access to the interface. Users can also enter the URL, http://hosted_computer_ip_address:3052/ in the address of the web browser to access the interface from a remote computer. hosted_computer_ip_address ® is the IP address of the computer which has the PowerPanel Business Edition installed.
Either enter the PDU’s IP address on the Device Address field or click the Browse button to display the device list and select the PDU address from this list. Click OK to proceed and add the selected PDU. Note: If multiple PDUs need to be added to Center, repeat aforementioned steps. Note: Please refer to PPBE User’s Manual about further details of more functions about Center.
IP address of the PDU can be assigned at the Address field on the Power/Configuration page in Client. To identify IP address of PDU, users can pick an address from the device list which shows all devices on the local network. In order to ensure the PDU can respond to the Client normally, the secret phrase or SNMP communities must be setup properly. Assign the PDU output outlet which supplies power to Client computer. Click Apply button to save changes to take effect.
Note: In order to allow the interactions between physical and virtual machines, VMware tools must be installed on each virtual machine. Refer to VMware ESX/ESXi Server documentation for further information about VMware Tools. Configure Startup and Shutdown of Virtual Machines on ESX/ESXi In order to ensure that all virtual machines and the VMware ESX/ESXi server host can be shut down and restart gracefully: Select the topmost VMware ESX/ESXi server host from the tree hierarchy on the left side.
Configure Shutdown of Virtual Machines on Hyper -V Server In order for the virtual machines to be shut down correctly when the Hyper-V host shuts down, users should configure a guest operating system shutdown on each virtual machine. Follow below steps to configure the guest virtual machine to shut down with the host: Using the Hyper-V Manager to choose a VM and the click Settings.
Choose the Automatic Stop Action and choose Shut down the guest operating system. Hyper-V server will shut itself down only after the running virtual machines shut down. Ensure that the Necessary shutdown time in the Event Actions/Settings page must be sufficient to support the virtual machines to shut down and the Hyper-V server to shut down.
profilePath=exported_zip_location Edit the setup.varfile to replace installationDir and profilePath parameters. installationDir indicates the absolute path of installation directory for Client (e.g. C:/Programs/CyberPower PowerPanel Business Edition/PowerPanel Business Edition or /opt/ppbe). profilePath indicates the absolute path of profile (e.g. C:/import/profile.zip or /import/profile.zip). Place the setup.varfile and installer in the same directory.
