American Power Conversion AP9207 Power Supply User Manual


 
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Chapter 3 Using the Share-UPS Menus
Using the Management Port
Introduction
The Management port of Share-UPS allows you to connect
a modem or DTE (data terminating equipment—a dumb
terminal or a computer running terminal emulation soft-
ware) to the Advanced port (port 1) of Share-UPS. Upon
establishin
g
communications with Share-UPS throu
g
h the
Management port (see “Logging on to Share-UPS” on page
31), you will access the Share-UPS menus. The Share-UPS
menus provide the following features:
Out-of-band notification
UPS status display
UPS control
Share-UPS configuration
The next paragraphs in this section describe these features.
Out-of-band
notification
When you use Share-UPS with an external modem and a
pager, Share-UPS can notify system administrators of prob-
lems, such as:
UPS is operating on battery
UPS has returned to On Line status (utility power
restored)
UPS has a low battery
UPS has been shut down
Battery needs replacement
Abnormal UPS conditions or faults
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