CyberPower PowerPanel Installation Manual
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Page 1: Installation Guide
® PowerPanel Business Edition Installation Guide Power Distribution Unit Rev. 14 2014/09/10... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Introduction ..............................3 Hardware Installation ............................3 ® Install PowerPanel Business Edition Software................... 4 Installation on Windows ..........................4 Installation on Linux ............................6 Installation on Text Mode .......................... 9 Installation on VMware ESXi and ESX ......................9 Installation on ESXi ........................... -
Page 3: Introduction
It can relay its state to Center and accepts commands to turn off or turn on the outlets. When the ® PDU turns off an outlet, any connected computers running PowerPanel Business Edition Client are shut down in an orderly fashion, preventing data loss or a system crash due to an immediate power loss. Refer to the illustration below. -
Page 4: Install Powerpanel
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.exe to start the installation procedure. - Page 5 Choose the destination directory. Choose the start menu folder.
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Page 6: Installation On Linux
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. - Page 7 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. ...
- Page 8 The daemon ppbed will start during installation. Click the Finish button to complete the installation.
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Page 9: Installation On Text Mode
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: ... -
Page 10: Installation On Esx
It is fundamentally changing how software is developed, distributed, deployed and managed. Download the PPBE virtual appliance which is pre-installed Client from CyberPower. In order to deploy the PPBE virtual appliance on VMware ESXi host, users must install vSphere Client tool first on another remote computer. - Page 11 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.
- Page 12 Select the virtual disk format for the PPBE virtual appliance. The default option is Thin Provision. Refer 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.
- Page 13 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. In order to perform shutdown...
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Page 14: Installation On Xenserver
® Access PowerPanel Business Edition Software Interface ® To access the PowerPanel Business Edition interface in Windows, go to Start > All Programs > CyberPower PowerPanel Business Edition > PowerPanel Business Edition Center (or PowerPanel... -
Page 15: Access Powerpanel Business Edition Software Interface
® is the IP address of the computer which has the PowerPanel Business Edition installed. For vMA on the ESX or ESXi, hosted_computer_ip_address is the IP address of the vMA (Note: hosted_computer_ip_address is the IP address of the host computer on ESX.) -
Page 16: Configure Power Protection For Computer
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 Configure Power Protection for Computer In order to ensure the computers which connect to the PDU have sufficient time to complete the shutdown... -
Page 17: Setup Necessary Shutdown Time
ESXi host address, account and password of the root user for the host ® shutdown from vMA. Because PowerPanel Business Edition software must be installed on the Service Console of ESX instead of vMA, Event Action/Settings page don’t provides these shutdown settings for user to configure. -
Page 18: Configure Startup And Shutdown Of Virtual Machines On Esx/Esxi
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: ... -
Page 19: Configure Shutdown Of Virtual Machines On Hyper-V Server
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: ... -
Page 20: Mass Deployment
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. - Page 21 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). ...