APC Battery Management System - Manual

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USER’S GUIDE
Battery Management System
Contents
I
Features of the System -- 1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Battery Management Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System capacity 2
Battery management features 3
Network Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Supported network management applications 4
Supported Web browsers 5
Getting Started -- 6
Initial Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Configuring TCP/IP settings 6
Useful terms 7
Accessing the User Interfaces -- 8
Access Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Access priorities among the interfaces 8
Access priority for logging on 8
Web interface 9
Control console interface 10
SNMP interface 12
Password-protected Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Account types and access 13
How to recover from a lost password 14
Watchdog Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Network interface watchdog mechanism 16
Resetting the network timer 16