Avocent Cyclades ACS 5000 Installation & Administrators Manual page 50

38 Cyclades ACS 5000 Installation/Administration/User Guide
Table 6.2: Expert - Applications - IPDU Power Mgmt. - Outlets Manager Icons (Continued)
Button
To view status, lock, unlock, rename or cycle power outlets [Expert]:
NOTE: For a group of outlets, the Cycle button operates only if all outlets of the group are turned ON.
1. Select Expert - Applications - IPDU Power Mgmt. - Outlets Manager. The Outlets Manager
screen appears with each IPDU listed.
2. Click the Show button associated with the IPDU whose outlets you want to manage. A list of
outlets appears.
3. To switch an outlet (or an outlet group) on or off, click its light bulb icon.
NOTE: For Avocent SPC power devices or Server Technology IPDUs, an alert window prompts you that you may
need to refresh your browser to view the change in the Outlets Manager. Click OK and continue.
4. To lock or unlock an outlet (or an outlet group), click its padlock icon.
NOTE: The outlet locking function is available on Cyclades IPDUs only.
5. To turn power to an outlet on and off, click the adjacent Cycle button.
6. To change the outlet name or the Post On Delay, click the adjacent Edit button. The Edit Outlet
dialog box appears.
a. To change the name assigned to the outlet, enter a new name in the Outlet Name field.
Names must begin with a letter. Valid characters are letters, numbers, dash (-) and
underscore (_).
b. To change the Post On Delay, change the default 0.50 number of seconds in the Post On
Delay field.
NOTE: If you change the outlet name here, make sure it is consistent with any name that may have been
configured for the outlet under Ports - Physical Ports - Power Management.
7. Click OK.
8. Click the Save Outlets State button (saves outlet states to the IPDU only).
NOTE: For Avocent SPC power devices or Server Technology IPDUs, an alert window prompts you that the
screen is automatically reloaded. Click OK and wait for confirmation that the page has been reloaded.
9. Click apply changes.
Purpose
An orange Cycle button is active next to each outlet that is on.
Displays a dialog box to configure an Outlet Name and Post On Delay. Outlet names
must begin with a letter. Valid characters are letters, numbers, dash (-) and underscore
(_). The post on delay is the amount of time (in seconds) that elapses after the selected
outlet is turned on before another outlet is turned on.