Introduction

PowerChute™ Serial Shutdown (PowerChute) provides UPS management, system shutdown, and energy management for devices connected to the UPS.

In the case of a UPS critical event, the software performs a graceful system shutdown of connected devices before the UPS battery is exhausted.

During installation, if you have configured PowerChute Serial Shutdown to use Simple Signaling using the Interface Expander 2 Card (AP9624), you will see a reduced number of options in the PowerChute Serial Shutdown Agent web user interface, when compared with standard Smart Signaling options. This document describes the options available in PowerChute for Simple Signaling only. See Interactivity in shutdown durations, and the PowerChute Serial Shutdown Installation Guide available on www.apc.com for more information on Simple Signaling configuration.

Previous generation accessories such as the UPS Interface Expander 1 (AP9607) and the APC Share-UPS (AP9207) also provided graceful system shutdown for multiple servers, using PowerChute Serial Shutdown. For more information on the operation of the Share-UPS or Interface Expander 1, see their associated user guides available on the APC website, and Knowledge Base article FA156051.

This document describes the PowerChute Agent web user interface:

• For information on installing PowerChute Serial Shutdown, see the PowerChute Serial Shutdown Installation Guide.

• For up-to-date information on the operating systems, JRE, service packs, and processors with which PowerChute Serial Shutdown is compatible, see the latest revision of PowerChute Serial Shutdown Operating System and Processor Compatibility Chart.

You can access the user interface of the PowerChute Serial Shutdown Agent in two ways, locally and remotely.

To access the PowerChute Serial Shutdown Agent on a local Windows computer, select the Windows start button, then select PowerChute Serial Shutdown > PowerChute Serial Shutdown.

To access the PowerChute Agent remotely, in a Web browser type the servername or Agent IP address and port:

If you have forgotten the username or password created during installation, you can reset the credentials by using the PowerChute configuration file. See Resetting your Username and Password.

PowerChute will automatically “lock out” for 2 minutes after three unsuccessful login attempts (incorrect username and/or password) to prevent brute force password cracking.

The PowerChute Agent User Interface (UI) is available in 7 languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Brazilian-Portuguese, and Spanish. To change the UI display language, click on the language selector in the top-right corner of the UI, and select a language from the drop-down list.