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Racktivity ES1000 Series User Manual

Manual is about: EnergySwitch

Summary of ES1000 Series

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    User manual es1000 series es1100 series energyswitch.

  • Page 2: Contents

    © 2011 racktivity nv 2/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 contents contents ................................................................................................................................................. 2 introduction .................

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    © 2011 racktivity nv 3/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 network settings .............................................................................................................................. 20 firmware version 1.2 or higher ..................

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    © 2011 racktivity nv 4/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 agent service ................................................................................................................................ 44 energyswitch configuration .......................

  • Page 5: Introduction

    © 2011 racktivity nv 5/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 introduction features the energyswitch pdu family, energyos and its included energydna deliver power within the data center along with the energy utilization and capacity optimization features ...

  • Page 6: Applicable Models

    © 2011 racktivity nv 6/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 applicable models unless specified otherwise, all information in this document is applicable to the following racktivity energyswitch es1000 models: es1008-16 es1108-16.

  • Page 7: Specifications

    © 2011 racktivity nv 7/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 specifications electrical ratings input: voltage 100v - 240v frequency 50/60hz current 16a output: connection 8x c13 voltage 100v - 240v current total 16a current per c13 8a the model number, i...

  • Page 8: User Account Overview

    © 2011 racktivity nv 8/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 user account overview the energyswitch has 3 types (levels) of user accounts: admin, restricted and guest. The following table shows an overview of the functionality of each type: admin restric...

  • Page 9: Rs232 Specifications

    © 2011 racktivity nv 9/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 rs232 specifications the rs232 ports on the energyswitch have the following pin lay-out (as seen on the male plug): compatibility the following brands/devices can be connected directly to the r...

  • Page 10: Safety

    © 2011 racktivity nv 10/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 safety save these instructions! This safety information contains important instructions that should be followed during installation and maintenance of the energyswitch. It is intended for rack...

  • Page 11: Certifications

    © 2011 racktivity nv 11/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 caution: the energyswitch contains a lithium battery and should not be disposed of with general refuge. Dispose of the lithium battery in accordance with all local codes and regulations for pr...

  • Page 12: Recycling

    © 2011 racktivity nv 12/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 recycling the materials used for shipping the energyswitch are recyclable, please save them for later use or dispose of them appropriately. Servicing & repair there are no user serviceable par...

  • Page 13: Getting Started

    © 2011 racktivity nv 13/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 getting started receiving inspection inspect the package (see inventory section) and contents for shipping damage and make sure that all parts were received. Report any damage immediately to t...

  • Page 14: Installation

    © 2011 racktivity nv 14/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 installation rack mounting instructions elevated operating ambient when installed in a closed or multi-unit rack assembly, the operating ambient temperature of the rack environment may be grea...

  • Page 15: Mounting The Energyswitch

    © 2011 racktivity nv 15/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 mounting the energyswitch 1. Connect the mounting brackets to the device using the provided screws. 2. Attach the energyswitch to a vertical rail in your rack: position the energyswitch, align...

  • Page 16: Overview

    © 2011 racktivity nv 16/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 overview front panel 1 r bus rs485 peripheral bus connector(s) (for external modules) 2 cli rs232 command line interface connector 3 rs232 8 x rs232 out-of-band management connectors 4 lan eth...

  • Page 17: Rear Panel

    © 2011 racktivity nv 17/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 rear panel 1 inlet power inlet 2 outlet 8 power outlets 3 outlet leds 8 blue outlet status leds.

  • Page 18: Status Leds

    © 2011 racktivity nv 18/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 status leds output leds (1-8) on the corresponding outlet is turned on off the corresponding outlet is turned off and the connected device is not receiving input power alarm led on warning, at...

  • Page 19: Quick Configuration

    © 2011 racktivity nv 19/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 quick configuration using the tft panel display activating the display when the power led is lit and the screen is black, push any of the 4 navigation buttons next to the tft display to activa...

  • Page 20: Network Settings

    © 2011 racktivity nv 20/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 network settings there are two methods for setting up the ip address: dynamic ip address assignment and manual assignment. If you are uncertain which method to use, contact your network admini...

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    © 2011 racktivity nv 21/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 4. Press down to select ip address. The assigned ip-address is shown at the bottom of the tft. 5. On a computer in the same network, use a browser to open the assigned ip-address, for example ...

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    © 2011 racktivity nv 22/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 5. Use the up and down buttons to change the currently selected value and press ok to select the next value. When holding the up and down buttons changing the values speeds up. When ready pres...

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    © 2011 racktivity nv 23/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 3. Use the up and down buttons to change the setting. Select yes and press menu to confirm and return to the network menu. 4. Use the up and down buttons to select save ip settings and press o...

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    © 2011 racktivity nv 24/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 3. Within the network menu, select use dhcp. When the value in yellow at the bottom of the screen shows no, the device already has a fixed ip; if not, press ok. 4. Use the up and down buttons ...

  • Page 25

    © 2011 racktivity nv 25/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 when surfing to the web portal, a popup appears requesting a username and password. The default username is admin and the default password is 1234.

  • Page 26: Web Interface

    © 2011 racktivity nv 26/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 web interface getting started supported web browsers the following browsers have been tested and certified to work with the energyswitch web interface (on all platforms): internet explorer 8 o...

  • Page 27: Layout

    © 2011 racktivity nv 27/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 layout 1 sub tabs displays the different sections of the selected main tab 2 user account displays which type of user account is currently logged in 3 main tabs displays the different function...

  • Page 28: Tabs

    © 2011 racktivity nv 28/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 tabs power use the power tab for the following: see the load and general status of both the energyswitch’s individual outlets and the totals: o amps o wattage o power factor o energy (kwh) o a...

  • Page 29: Management

    © 2011 racktivity nv 29/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 management the management tab is used to manage the modules in an energyswitch setup, including energy sensors. For more information regarding the managing of energy sensors, please see the en...

  • Page 30: Network Configuration

    © 2011 racktivity nv 30/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 network configuration path: settings > network settings the network settings contains both the network and the snmp related settings. The snmp related settings can be found in the snmp configu...

  • Page 31: Snmp Configuration

    © 2011 racktivity nv 31/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 snmp configuration the energyswitch offers snmpv2 communication (gets, sets and traps). Notifications (traps) can be enabled or disabled for many of the device’s functions: outlet state change...

  • Page 32: Device Settings

    © 2011 racktivity nv 32/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 device settings the device settings give access to energyswitch identification o device name: the name of the energyswitch o rack name: the name of the rack where the energyswitch is located o...

  • Page 33

    © 2011 racktivity nv 33/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 overheat protection o path: settings > overheat protection depending on the parameter one or more of the following types of thresholds will be available: warning: the outlet state is not chang...

  • Page 34: Resetting Measurements

    © 2011 racktivity nv 34/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 resetting measurements for many parameters the minimum, maximum and/or total is saved to give an easy overview of load activity. These values van be easily reset by pressing the reset link for...

  • Page 35: Priority

    © 2011 racktivity nv 35/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 priority path: settings > startup delay & outlet importance the importance column gives a rating from 1 to 8 to each outlet. A rating of 1 indicates the highest importance, whilst 8 is the low...

  • Page 36: Cli

    © 2011 racktivity nv 36/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 cli the energyswitch has a built in command line interface that can be accessed through both the cli connector on the front or via telnet. Commands are typically sent to the separate modules. ...

  • Page 37

    © 2011 racktivity nv 37/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 note: the complete cli interface is available as from firmware version 1.1.X.X version 1.0.X.X and below only have a reduced interface (or less). For more information regarding a firmware upgr...

  • Page 38: Rs232

    © 2011 racktivity nv 38/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 rs232 the rs232 ports on your energyswitch can be used to connect to the rs232 connectors of external devices (console port on a switch, …). Depending on your firmware version the means of est...

  • Page 39: Ups Integration

    © 2011 racktivity nv 39/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 ups integration as of firmware version 1.3, your energyswitch pdu features ups integration functionality. This enables the energyswitch to receive vital battery information from a connected up...

  • Page 40

    © 2011 racktivity nv 40/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 cli specifications chapter) connected to the cli connector on the front of the unit. On the side of the ups: a db9 male connector. Rj45 db9 function pin pin function tx 3 1 rx gnd 4 9 gnd gnd ...

  • Page 41: Enabling The Link

    © 2011 racktivity nv 41/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 enabling the link once the energyswitch and ups are physically connected it is necessary to enable the functionality on the web interface of the energyswitch. 1. Open the energyswitch' web int...

  • Page 42: Rules

    © 2011 racktivity nv 42/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 is charging and this level is crossed certain actions will be performed automatically. Ups recovery power threshold the powered outlets and outlets marked as alwayson with respective power con...

  • Page 43

    © 2011 racktivity nv 43/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 7. After the battery level dropped below the ups emergency threshold and the ups is running on mains power again and the battery level goes above the ups recovery threshold: all powered outlet...

  • Page 44: Agent Communication

    © 2011 racktivity nv 44/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 agent communication as of firmware version 1.3, your energyswitch pdu features agent communication functionality. This enables the energyswitch to communicate to installed agents on connected ...

  • Page 45: Installation

    © 2011 racktivity nv 45/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 future releases will add the following monitored items: network interfaces and their info: ip, transmitted bytes, received bytes cpus and their info: speed, cores, sockets, cores per socket, l...

  • Page 46: Additional Commands

    © 2011 racktivity nv 46/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 shut down. When this value is set to 'disabled' no action will be performed. Default: disabled reboot url: the url of the web page that will be called when the restart command is received. Whe...

  • Page 47: Energyswitch Configuration

    © 2011 racktivity nv 47/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 energyswitch configuration to configure agent communication on the energyswitch: login to the web interface and open the power > agent sub tab. For each outlet the following options are availa...

  • Page 48

    © 2011 racktivity nv 48/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 a shutdown or restart command can also be sent to an associated agent manually through the use of an http api (when logged in as administrator): https:// [device_ip] /agent.Cgi? Addr=p[x]&inde...

  • Page 49: Logging

    © 2011 racktivity nv 49/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 logging there are currently 2 types of logging available. Both can be downloaded from the web interface or through the api for your convenience. Event path: logging > event the event log is us...

  • Page 50

    © 2011 racktivity nv 50/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 module the module for which to request the log. Start time the starting date & time. End time the ending date & time. Download download the log as a text file..

  • Page 51

    © 2011 racktivity nv 51/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 management information base (mib) a management information base (mib) is a virtual database used for managing the entities in a communications network and is most often associated with the sim...

  • Page 52: Upgrade Firmware

    © 2011 racktivity nv 52/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 upgrade firmware racktivity is always working on improving and fine-tuning its products. It is possible that a new firmware is available for your device. During a firmware update the device co...

  • Page 53: Troubleshooting

    © 2011 racktivity nv 53/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 troubleshooting downloading the diagnostics as of firmware version 1.3 it is possible to download a diagnostics file (diag.Txt) directly from the device containing a lot of vital system inform...

  • Page 54

    © 2011 racktivity nv 54/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 press menu to enter the menu. Select network or network settings (v1.2) and press ok. Press the down button and select current ip address or ip address (v1.2). The ip of your energyswitch is d...

  • Page 55: Support

    © 2011 racktivity nv 55/55 antwerpsesteenweg 19 - 9080 lochristi - belgium - www.Racktivity.Com v 2013.10.7 support feel free to contact us if you need any support or have any other questions or remarks: online www.Racktivity.Com/support e-mail support@racktivity.Com phone 003293242095 (gmt+1).