Eaton’s Intelligent Power® Software Suite gives you all the tools you need to monitor and manage power devices on your network, even in a virtualized environment. This innovative software solution combines the most critical applications in ensuring system uptime and data integrity: not only power monitoring and management, but also graceful shutdown during an extended power outage. Both software programs in this suite, Intelligent Power Manager and Intelligent Power Protector, can be downloaded free of charge.
Intelligent Power Manager - Supervisory Software
Remotely monitor and manage multiple UPS and ePDU devices across your network from a single interface — any PC with a Web browser or your vCenter™ or XenCenter™ dashboard
Instantly access critical information, such as UPS battery condition, load levels and battery runtime
Measure power consumption and kWh to help calculate power usage effectiveness (PUE)
Integration with virtualization platforms increases productivity and operational responsiveness
Trigger migration applications to transparently move virtual machines to an available server on the network, for data integrity and zero downtime
Shutdown agent management enables safe shut down of servers — even servers in clusters running vCenter
Auto discovery provides fast installation by automatically detecting devices on the network
Mass-upgrading of firmware capability reduces network management card setup and maintenance time
Power device asset management allows for tracking of equipment moves, adds and changes
Compatible with ESXi, SCVMM, XenCenter and KVM
Intelligent Power Protector - Protection Software
Helps you avoid data loss by gracefully shutting down computers and servers powered by a UPS during an extended power outage
Easy-to-use interface from any PC with a Web browser
Watchdog functionality reboots hung-up machines in kiosks
Redundancy monitoring/management capability for dual-cord servers helps maximize uptime
Acquires UPS information through local or network communication and can be easily deployed on many computers
Can be remotely managed, configured and updated with Eaton’s Intelligent Power Manager
CRN reviewer Edward J. Correia says that in looking at the Eaton 5130 UPS with its Intelligent Power Software Suite, the most impressive thing "was the tightness and depth of [the software's] integration with VMware." Read the full review.