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® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System Contents I Features of th e System -- 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery Manageme nt Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System II Battery Management -- 17 Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 General system info rmation 17 Battery System and Devi ce Manager Me nus . . . . . . . .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System III System Me nu -- 61 Access Res trictions and Me nu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Purpose and acc ess 61 Menu options 62 Option Setting s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System IV Email Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Requirements for using SMT P 86 DNS servers 87 SMTP settings 87 How to Co nfigure Individual E vents . . . . . .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System V Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Authenticat ion versus encryption 114 Encryp tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System VI APC Device IP Config uration Wiza rd -- 153 Purpose and Requi rements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Purpose: config ure basic TCP/IP settings 153 System requirements 153 Install the Wizard .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System VII Troubleshooting -- 171 Management Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 1 Featur es of the System Intr od uction The APC Battery Manag ement System pr ovides automated monito ring of large battery systems that supp ly backup for 120-, 240-, an d 480-volt power systems.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 2 Battery Management Capabilities System capacity Using the APC Batter y Management System, you can monito r and maintain the batteries of one ma ster unit and up to five expansion units, each unit handling up to 64 indi vidual batteries.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 3 Battery management featur es The system enables you to do the follow ing: • Identify weak or defective batteries that need replacement. • Optimize the charge state of batterie s within a string b y automated charging of individual b atteries with a low er voltage.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 4 Network Management Featur es Supported network ma nagement applications An APC Network Manag ement Card (AP95 17SQD) is built into the m aster controller (AP9921X) tha t provides the n etwork connection.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 5 Supported W eb br owsers As your browser , you can use Mi crosoft ® Internet Explorer (IE) 5. x or Netscape ® 7. x to access the Battery Management Sys tem through its Web interface. Other common ly available brows ers also may work but have not been fully tested by AP C.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 6 Getting Started Initial Setup Config uring TCP/IP se ttings Y ou m ust define three TCP/IP s ettings for the Battery Ma nagement System’s built-in Manag.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 7 ‘ Useful terms Batteries : Sing le or multi-cell lead-acid or n ickel-cadmium blocks that a re connected together in series to create a string. Battery Management Sy stem : One comple te Battery Management System that is c omposed of one master u nit and up to five expansion units.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 8 Accessing the User Interfaces Access Pr ocedur es Access priorities among the interfaces After the Battery Management Syste m network setting s are config.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 9 We b i n t e r f a c e T o access and log on t o the Battery Manageme nt System’s W eb interface: 1. In the URL Location fie ld, do one of th e following. – If the Battery Man agement Syste m port is set to the default value o f 80, type http:// followed by the Battery Ma nagement System IP address.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 10 Contr ol console interface Y ou c an manage the Battery M anagement Syst em through the control console, using either T e lnet or the RS-232/485 p ort. Structur e. The control console provides menu options to manage the Battery Management S ystem over the ne twork.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 11 Local access to the contr ol console. Y ou can use a local compute r , a computer that connects to the Batt ery Management System through the serial port, to access the control console. 1. Select a serial port at the lo cal computer and d isable any service which uses that port.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 12 Te l n e t . T o access the Battery Ma nagement System’s control console using T elnet: 1. Use the command telnet and the IP address of th e Battery Management System. F or example: telnet 170.215.6.49 2.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 13 Passwor d-pr otected Accounts Account ty pes and acces s The Battery Manageme nt System has th ree types of accounts, Administrator , D evice Manager an d Read-Only User . • The Administrator account can use all the menus in the cont rol console and in the Web interface.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 14 How to r e cover from a lost passw or d Y ou c an use a local computer t hat connects to the Battery M anagement System through the se rial port on the rea r of the master unit. 1. Select a serial port at a local computer , and disable any s ervice that uses the port.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 15 5. Press E NTER , repeatedly if necessary , to d isplay the User Name prompt. If you are unab le to display the User Name prompt, verify the following: – The serial port is not in use by another a pplication.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 16 Wa t c h d o g F e a t u r e s Network inte rface watchdog mechanism The master unit’s built-in Management Ca rd implements internal watchdo g mechanisms to protect itself from beco ming inaccessible over the network.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 17 Batter y Management Main Scr een General system informat ion When you log on to th e Web interface or control console , the main screen provides basic informatio n about the Bat tery Management System: Information displayed in both interfaces.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 18 Information displayed in the contr ol console on ly . The ma in screen of the control console disp lays the following additional information. • V ersion inform ation : (In the Web interface, select About Sy stem from the Help m enu.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 19 Battery System and Device Manager Menus Displaying data and alarms Y ou ca n display battery information a nd view alarms and their causes in the Web interface, control console, or display interface.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 20 We b i n t e r f a c e . Alarm category Alarms re ported Data c ausing the alarm Environment Ambient T emperature The air temperature i n the battery environment Charger S tring V oltage The voltage (VDC) of an entire battery strin g, discharge, and high pilot temperature.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 21 Control console. Y ou c an use the control conso le to display battery inform ation and alarms. T o display battery data and active a larms: 1. On the main screen of the control conso le, identify the battery strin g about which you want to display informat ion.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 22 Viewing details on alarms Y ou can display detailed information on active alarms f or any battery string . The alarm message text displayed for a c ategory indicates which ala rm details to select. W eb interface example.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 23 Interpr eting alarm details For an alarm category: • The Web interface displays detailed alarm da t a a nd any configure d threshold values on a s ingle page. For the three typ es of battery alarms, bar graphs are d isplayed.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 24 Char ger alarms. Battery alarms. Category Det ails Diagnostics S tring V o ltages The voltage of a battery string is above or below the threshold. Problem: High or low string voltage indicates that the string charger ma y be defe ctive or imprope rly adjusted.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 25 Management Contr oller alarms. Charge T est When the Battery Managem ent System applied a test current, the batteries listed in the alarm message showed a high er than acceptable percentage deviation from the previous “benchmarked” values (wh ich are reset after any discharge).
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 26 Monitor Relay St u c k A relay is stuck in the m aster uni t. Reset the unit using the recessed reset button on the back of the master unit. If problem persists, contact APC C ustomer Support at the phone numbe r located at the end of this manu al.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 27 Configur ation menu Battery T ype Selection. Choose nickel-cadmium or lead-acid batteries. Battery Configuration. Charger T ype (Silcon/ Othe r) A Silcon unit can have two strings per battery management master unit.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 28 T e mperatur e Configuration. Alar m Co nfigu rat ion. Maximum Pilot T emperature Limit The m aximum surface tem perature of the pi lot battery in the string (the battery to whic h the pilot tem perature sensor is attached).
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 29 Calibration menu Select to calibrate eithe r a St ri n g or a U nit. String. Select the string you wish to calibrate. Unit. Select the unit you wish to calibrate. St r i n g X Each string will be listed. Select the string you wish to configure Ohmic Correction Set the overall Ohmic Correction value.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 30 Modbus Modbus lets you view the Battery Ma nagement System through your building management s ervices interface.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 31 Reset Disc har ge V olta ges Reset Lowest Dischar ge V oltages (contr o l console). The lowest discharge voltage is the low est voltage measured for each battery in a string during discharge. T o clear the stored lowest discharge voltage: 1.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 32 Network Menu Access Restrictions and Menu Options Access Only an Administrator ha s access to the Network menu.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 33 Option Settings TCP/IP This option accesses th e following setting s: • Boot mode setting : Selects the method used to def ine the TCP/IP values that a.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 34 Boot mode setting. This setting s elects which method will be used to define the Battery Man agement System’s TCP/IP settings whenever the Battery Mana.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 35 Advanced setting s. The Boot mode affects which settings are availabl e: • T wo settings a re available for all Boot mode selections to de fine the Battery Management S ystem’s Hos t Nam e and Domain Name values.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 36 • Three settings are availa ble for all Boot mo de selections, except Manual , to identify the Management Card in BOOTP or DHCP communication: – V endor Class : Use s APC , by default. – Client ID : Uses the Battery Mana gement System’s MAC address, by default.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 37 DNS Use this option to defin e the IP address es of the primary and sec ondary Domain Name System (DN S) servers used b y the Battery Managemen t System’s e-mail feature. The primary DNS se rver will always be tried first.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 38 • Enable or disable Reverse DNS Lookup . This feature is dis abled by default. Enabling this f eature is the reco mmended configuration, unless you have no DNS serve r configured or ha ve poor network performa nce because of heavy net work traffic.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 39 FT P S e r v e r Use the Access setting to enable or dis able the FTP server . The server is enabled by default. Use the Port setting to identify the TCP/IP port that the FTP server uses for communications with the Battery Manage ment System.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 40 T elnet/SSH Use the T elnet/ SSH option to p erform the following tasks: • Enable or disable T elnet or the Secure SHell (SSH) proto col for remote control console access. – While SSH is enabled, y ou cannot use T elnet to access the control console.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 41 • Display the fing erprint of the SSH host ke y for SSH versions 1 and 2. Most SSH clients display the fingerprin t at the start of a session.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 42 Option Des cription T elnet/S SH Network Configuration Access Enables or disables the access method selected in Prot ocol Mode .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 43 T elnet/S SH Port Config uration T elnet Port Identifies the TCP/IP port used for communications by T elnet with the Battery Management System.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 44 SSH Serv er Config uration SSHv1 Encryption Algorithms Enables or disables DES , and displays the status (always enabled) of Blowfish , two encryption algorithms (b lock ciphers) compatible with SSH, versi on 1, cli ent s.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 45 SSH User Host Key File S tatus The Statu s field indicates the st atus of the host key ( private key). In t he control console, you displa y host key status by selecting Ad vanced SSH Configur ation .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 46 SSH Host Key Fingerpri nt SSH v1 Displays the SSH version 1 fingerprint for the host key . The fingerprint is a unique identifier to further authenticate the host key . In the control console, choose Advanced SSH Config uration and then Host Ke y Information to display the fingerprint.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 47 SNMP An Access op tion ( Settings in the contr ol console) enables (by de fault) or disables SNMP . When S NMP is enabled, the Access Control settin gs allow you to control how each of th e four available SNMP ch annels is used.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 48 Email Use the Email option t o do the followin g: • Define the SMTP server . • Configure e-mail recipien ts. . Access Ty p e Selects how the NMS defined by the NMS IP setting can use the channel, when that NMS us es t he c orrec t Community Name .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 49 Syslog By default, the Battery Management Sy stem can send messages to up to four Syslog servers when ever Battery Man agement System or the embedded manageme nt card events occur .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 50 Syslog Server Settings Server IP/ Domain Name Uses specific IP addresses or domain names to identify which of up to four servers will receive Syslog messages se nt by t he Battery Manage ment System. N OTE : T o use the Syslog featur e, Server IP/Domain Name must b e defined for at least one server .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 51 Syslog test (W eb interface). This option allo ws you to send a test message to the Syslog servers configured in the Syslog Server s ection. 1. Select the priority you w ant to assign to the test message.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 52 W eb/SSL Use the Web/SSL menu to perform the fo llowing tasks. • Enable or disable the t wo protocols that provide access to the Web interface of the B.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 53 • Display the configured parameters of a digital server certificate, if on e is installed. Creating and uploading a server certificate in advance reduces the time required to enable HTTPS (SS L/TLS).
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 54 Opti on Descri ption Web/SSL Ne twork Con figuration Access Enables or disables the access met hod selected in Proto col Mode . Protocol Mode Choose one of the following: • HTTP: User names, passwords, and data are t ran smitted without encryption.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 55 HTTP/HTT PS Port Co nfigurati on HTTP Port Identifies the TCP/IP port used for communications by HTTP with the Battery Management System.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 56 SSL Server Configura tion CipherSuite Enables or disables the fo llowing SSL encryption ciphers a nd hash algorithms. (T o access these op tions in the co ntrol console, choose Web/ SSL , th en Advanced SSL Configuratio n .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 57 SSL Server Certifica te S tatus: The Stat us field indicates whether a server certificate is i nstalled. (T o display the status in the control console, choose W eb/SSL , then Advanced SSL Configuration .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 58 SSL Server Certifica te Filename: Y ou can create a server certif icate with the APC Security Wizard and then upload it to the Battery Management System by using the Web interface. Use the Brow se button f or the Filename field to lo cate the file, then click Apply .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 59 Parameter Descr iption Current Certifi cate Details Issued T o: Common Name (CN) : The IP Address or DNS name of the Battery Manageme nt System, except if t he se rver certificate was generated by default by the Battery Management System.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 60 Fingerprint: Each fingerprint is a long stri ng of alphan umeric characters punctuated by colons. A fingerprint is a unique identifier that you can use to furt h er authenticate the server .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 61 System Menu Access Restrictions and Menu Options Purpose and access Use the System menu to do the followin g t asks: • Configure system identif ication, date and time settings, and acces s parameters for the Administrator , Device Mana ger , and Read-O nly User accounts.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 62 Menu options See the following desc riptions of the set tings available from the System menu options: • User Manager • RADIUS • Identification • .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 63 Option Settings User Manager Use this option to defin e the access valu es shared by the control console and Web interface.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 64 RADIUS RADIUS (Remote Authentica tion Dial-In User Service) is an au thentication, authorization, and acco unting service. U se this option to centrally administer remote access for each Battery Management System.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 65 RADIUS Setting Definition Access Local Only : RADIUS is disabled. Access to the Batt ery Management System is cont rolle d by the local user manager o nly . RADIUS then Loca l : RADIUS is enabled. Contact the RADIUS server first.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 66 Configuring the R ADIUS server . Y ou must configure you r RADIUS server to work with the B attery Manageme nt System.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 67 Identifica tion Use this option to def ine the System Name , Location , and Cont act valu es used by the SNMP age nt for the manag ement card that is built in to the master controller of the Battery Managem ent System.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 68 In the control console, u se the N TP Client option to enable or disable (the default) the NTP Server updates. In the Web interface, use the Set Manually o ption to disable t he updates. Setting Definition Primary NTP Server Identifies the IP address or domain name of the primary NTP server .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 69 To o l s Initiating an action. Use this drop-down list in the We b interfac e or the equivalent menu opt ions in the con trol console to restart the inte.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 70 Uploading an initialization file (W eb interface only). T o transfer configuration settings f rom a configured Battery Management Syst em master controller to the curre nt Battery Man agement System master controller , expo rt the .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 71 File T ransfer (control console only). The File T ransfer o ption of the T ools m enu provides two methods for file transfer o ver the network and one for file transfer thro ugh a serial conn ection to the Battery Man agement System.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 72 Links (W eb interface) Use this option to modif y the links to APC W eb pages. Setting Definition Use r Links Name Defines the link na mes that appea r in the Links menu (by default, APC’ s Web Site , T estdrive Demo , and APC Monitoring ).
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 73 About System (control console) This option identifies ha rdware information for the Management Ca rd, including Model Number , Serial Number , Manufacture Date , Hardware Revision , MAC Address , and Flash T ype.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 74 Event-r elated Menus Intr od uction Overview Use the options of the Event s menu to do the following tasks: • Access the Event Log. • Define the acti ons to be taken when an event occu rs, based on the severity level of that eve nt.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 75 Menu options T o access the event-rela ted options: • In the Web interface, use the E vent s menu. • In the control console: – Use the Email option i n the Network me nu to define the SMTP server and e-mail recipien ts.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 76 Event Log Overview The Battery Manageme nt System suppo rt s ev ent logging. Use any of the following to view the Eve nt Log: • Web interface • Contr.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 77 Accessi ng the log T o view or clear the Batt ery Management System’s event log, use t he Web interface, control conso le, or FTP . W eb interface. T o display the eve nts in reverse chronological order , use the Log option in the Events me nu.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 78 How to use F TP or SCP to r etrieve log files If you are an Administr ator or Device Ma nager , you can use FTP or SCP to retrieve a tab-delineated event log f ile ( event.txt ) or d ata log file ( dat a.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 79 T o u se SCP to r etrieve the file. T o use SCP to retrieve the event.txt file, use the following comma nd: scp username @ hostnam e_or_ip_address :data txt./data.txt T o u se F T P to r etrieve the file.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 80 4. Y ou ca n use the del command to clear the con tents of the event log or data log. ftp>del event.txt or ftp>del data.txt Y ou w ill not be asked to confirm the deletion. – If you clear the data log, the event log records a de leted-log event.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 81 Actions Option (W eb interface only) Enabling and disabling event act ions Use the Actions option of the E vent s menu to e nable or disable the followin.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 82 To u s e SN MP traps for event notifica tions, you must f irst identify the trap receivers (up to four) by their specific IP ad dresses. Email action By default, the Email action is enabled for severe events only .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 83 Recipients Option Tr a p R e c e i v e r s Y ou can define up to four NMSs to be used as trap receivers when an event occurs that has SNMP t raps enabled. In the Web interface , use the T rap Receiver settings, available through the Recipients option of the Event s menu.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 84 Email Recipients T o identify up to four e -mail recipients to be notified of events, use one of the following: • The Recipients option of the Web inte.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 85 When you select Local SMTP Server for the Send via se tting, do one of the following: • Make sure that forwarding is enabled at that server so that the se rver can route e-mail to exte rnal SMTP servers.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 86 Email Option Requir ements for using SMTP T o use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP ) to send e-mail when an event occurs, you must define the follow ing settings: • The IP addres s of the domain name ser vice (DNS) server .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 87 DNS servers The Battery Mana gement Syste m cannot send a ny e-mail messages unless at least the IP address of the primary DNS server is defined.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 88 How to Configur e Individual Events Optio ns to c onfigure individu al eve nts Y ou ca n configure individual events using the eve ntlist.htm page. See Event list access . Event list access T o access the event list , add /evntlist.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 89 Event list format The evntlist.htm page defines the fo llowing for each e vent: • Code : The event’s unique event code. • Description : The text u sed for the even t. • Severity : The event’s default severity le vel.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 90 Bits 0 to 3. These bits represent the event’s severity: Bit 4 and bits 6 to 9. These bits enable (1) or disable (0) ev ent logging and trap receiv ers for the event: Bits 10 to 13.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 91 Event mask example Y ou e nter the hexadecimal cod e 3B08 00 as an ev ent mask. The event mask configu res the following bit settings: 0011 1011 0000 1000 0000 0000 The event is configured as follows: • The severity level is seve re.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 92 Management Car d and Battery Manage r Events Event generation The Management Card and Battery Man agement System both ge nerate events, which are logged in the eve nt log. Any event of either typ e generates a u nique code, which you ca n use in applications to identify the event.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 93 Severity levels defined Severity Definition Severe Requires im mediate action. Se vere events can cause incorrect operation of the Battery Manage ment System or can cause loss of power protection during a power failure.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 94 Management Ca r d events Code Severity Description 0x0001 Severe System: Coldstart. (Th e Management Card was turned on.) 0x0002 Severe System: W armstart. (The Management Card was reset aft er it was already turned on.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 95 0x001E None System: control consol e user logged out. 0x001F None System: Web user logged out. 0x0020 None System: FTP user logged out. 0x0021 None System: Set date o r time. 0x0024 None System: T race inform ation.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 96 Y ou ca nnot configure actions fo r Management Card even ts that have no severity lev el. Not all of the “System” ev ents listed in the table are supported by the Batte ry Management S ystem.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 97 Battery Management Sys tem events Code Severity Description 0x0801 Inform ational System: Comm unication establishe d. 0x0802 Seve re System: Commun ication lost. 0x080D Informational System: Co nfiguration has be en chang ed.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 98 0x0821 Informationa l Battery: Dryout/sulfation no lo nger present. 0x0822 Severe Battery: Pilot temperature hig h. 0x0823 Informationa l Battery: High pilot temperature returned to normal. 0x0824 Seve re Environment: Ambi ent temperature high.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 99 Data Logging (W eb interface) Description Use the Data menu to do the following tasks: • Access the data log. • Define the Discharge a nd Charge Data Log intervals. The Data Log displays inf ormation logged by each Battery Management unit.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 100 Configuration Use this option t o change th e Discharge and Charge Log Interval settings which define how often data will be sampled and recorded in the d at a log.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 101 Boot Mode Intr od uction Overview In addition to using a BOOTP server or m anual settings, the Mana gement Card that the Battery M anagement Syste m mas.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 102 DHCP & BOOTP boo t pr ocess When Boot mode is set to its default DHCP & BO OTP setting, the following occurs when th e Management C ard is turned on or reset: 1. The Management Card makes up to five requests for it s ne twork assignment from any BO OTP server .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 103 If a DHCP server responds w ith an invalid offer (for example, the offer does not contain the APC Co okie), the Ma nagement Card accepts the lease from that se rver on the last request of the sequence and then immediatel y releases that lease.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 104 DHCP Configuration Settings Management Ca r d settings Use the TCP/IP option in the Network me nu of either the Web interface or the control console to c onfigure the net work settings of the Mana gement Card that the Battery M anagement Syste m master controller contains.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 105 When Boot mode is set to DHCP & BOOTP , two options are available: • Af ter IP Assignment in the contro l console (or Remain in DH CP & BOOTP .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 106 DHCP r esponse option s Each valid DHCP respon se contains options that prov ide the TCP/IP settings a Managemen t Card needs to o perate on a network and other information that affects the Battery Management Sys tem’s operation.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 107 Boot Mode T rans ition. T ag 2, Len 1, Dat a 1 /2 This option 43 setting e nables or disable s the Af t er IP Assignment option which, by default, caus .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 108 TCP/IP o ptions. A Manageme nt Card contained in the Bat tery Management System ma ster controller use s the following options wit hin a valid DHCP resp.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 109 Other options. A Management Card contained in the Batter y Management System ma ster controller use s the following options wit hin a valid DHCP respons.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 110 Security Security Featur es Planning and implementing secur i ty featur es As a network device tha t passes information across the networ k, the Network Management Ca rd in the master c ontroller of the Battery Management System is subject to the sa me exposure as other de vices on the network.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 111 SNMP . File transfer pr otocols. Security Access Description Available method s: • Community Name • Domain Name • NMS IP filters • Agent Enable/.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 112 We b S e r v e r . Changing default user names and passwor ds immediately As soon as you comple te the installation and initial configurat ion of the Battery Management S ystem, immediately change the default use r names and passwords.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 113 User names, passwords, community names (SNM P) All user names, passwords, and comm unity names for SNMP are transferred over the ne twork as plain text .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 114 Authentication Authentication ver sus encryption Y ou c an choose to use securit y features for the Battery Management System that control acce ss by providing b asic authentication throu gh user names, passwords, and IP addresse s, without using e ncryption.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 115 Encryption Secur e SHell (SSH) and Secur e CoPy (SCP) The Secure SHell (SSH) protocol provides a secure mechanism to ac cess computer consoles or shells remotely .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 116 Secure CoPy (SCP) is a secure file transfe r application that you can use instead of FTP . SCP us es the SSH proto col as the underlying tran sport protocol for encryption o f user names, passwords, and files.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 117 Secur e Sockets Layer (SS L) For secure Web communication, you ena ble Secure Socke t s L ayer (SSL) by selecting HTTPS (SSL ) as the protoco l mode to use for access t o the Web interface of the Battery Manageme nt System.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 118 Y ou c an use the APC Security Wizard, provided on the A PC Battery Management System Utility CD, to crea te a certificate sign ing request to an extern.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 119 Cr eating and Installing Digital Certificates Purpose For network communicatio n that requires a higher level of security th an password encryption, the Web interface of the Battery Management System supports the use of digital certificates with the Secure Soc kets Layer (SSL) protocol.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 120 Choosing a method for your syste m Using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, you can choose any of the following methods for us ing digital certificates. Method 1: Use the Battery Management System’ s auto-generated default certificate.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 121 – This method does not include the brows er-based authentication provided by a CA certific ate (a certificate s igned by a Certificate Authority) as Methods 2 and 3 provide. T here is no CA Certificate cached in the browser .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 122 Method 2: Use the APC Security Wizar d to cr eate a CA certifica te and a server certificate. Y ou use the APC Security Wiz ard to create two digital ce.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 123 – The length of the public key (RSA key) th at is used for encryption when setting up an SS L session is 102 4 bits, providing more complex encryption a nd conseque ntly a higher level o f security than the public key used in Method 1.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 124 Method 3: Use the APC Security Wizard to cr eate a certificate-signing r equest to be signed by the r oot certificate of an external Certificate Authority and to cr eate a ser ver certificate. Y ou use the APC Security Wizard to create a reques t (a .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 125 consequently a higher level of security th an the public key used in Method 1 (This longer e ncryption key is a lso used in Method 2.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 126 Fir ew alls Although some methods of aut hentication provide a higher level of security than others, complete p rotection from se curity breaches is almost impossible to achieve . Well-configured firewalls are a n essential element in an overall security schem e.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management SystemBattery 127 Using the APC Security Wizar d Overview Authentication Authentication verifie s the iden tity of a user or a network de vice (such a s an APC Network Manageme nt Card in the Ba ttery Management System master controller).
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 128 Authentication of the s erver (in this case , the Management Card in the Battery Management S ystem master cont roller) occurs each time a connection is made from the browser to th e server .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 129 Files you cr eate for SSL and SSH s ecurity Use the APC Secu rity Wizard to create the following components of an SSL and SSH security system : • The server certificate for the Batte ry Management System, if you want the benefits of authentication that such a certificate provides.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 130 • An SSH host key that y our SSH client pro gram uses to authentica te the Management Card in the Battery Ma nagement System master controller when you log on to the contro l console interface.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 131 Cr eate a Root Certificat e & Server Certificates Summary Use this procedure if yo ur comp a ny or agency do es not have it s own Certificate Authority and you do not want to use a commercial Certificate Authority to si gn your server c ertificates.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 132 The pr ocedur e Cr eate the CA r oot certificate. Perform these ste p s. (Click Next to move from screen to screen.) 1. If the APC Security Wiza rd is not already i nst a lled on your comp uter , install it by running the installation program APC Security Wizard.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 133 6. On the next screen, re view the summary o f the certificate. Scroll downward to view the ce rtificate’s unique serial number an d fingerprints. T o make any changes to the information you prov ided, click Back , and revise th e information.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 134 Cr eate an SSL Server User Certificate. Perform these steps. (Click Next to move from screen to screen.) 1. On the Windows Star t menu, se lect Programs , then APC Security Wiza rd , to start the Wizard program.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 135 6. On the next screen, re view the summary o f the certificate. Scroll downward to view the ce rtificate’s unique serial number an d fingerprints. T o make any changes to the information you prov ided, click Back , and revise th e information.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 136 Alternatively , you can use FTP or Secure CoPy (SCP) to transfer the server cert ificate to the M anagement Card. If yo u use FTP or SCP for the tran sfer , you must spec ify the correct location, sec , on the Management Card .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 137 Cr eate a Server Certificate and Signing Request Summary Use this procedure if yo ur comp a ny or agency ha s it s own Certificate Authority or if yo u plan to use a commerc ial Certificate Authority to sign your server certif icates.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 138 The pr ocedur e Cr eate the Certificate Signing Request (CSR). Perform these steps. (Click Next to move from s creen to screen.) 1. If the APC Security Wiza rd is not already i nst a lled on your comp uter , install it by running the installation program APC Security Wizard.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 139 6. On the next screen, re view the summary o f the certificate. Scroll downward to view the ce rtificate’s unique serial number an d fingerprints. T o make any changes to the information you prov ided, click Back , and revise th e information.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 140 Import the signed certificate. When the external Cert ificate Authority returns the signed certif icate, perform the se steps to import the certificate.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 141 Load the ser ver certificate to the Management Car d. Perform these steps: 1. On the Network menu o f the Web interface of the Batte ry Management System, s elect the Web/SSL option. 2. In the SSL Server Cer tificate section o f the page, browse to the server certificate, the .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 142 Cr eate an SSH Host Key Summary This procedure is optional. If you select SSH encryption, but do not crea te a host key , the B attery Manageme nt System generates a 7 68-bit RSA key when it reboots. Host keys for SSH th at are created w ith the APC Security Wizard are 1024-bit RSA keys.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 143 6. The summary screen disp lays the SSH vers ion 1 and version 2 fingerprints, which are uniqu e for each host key and identify the host key .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 144 Load the host key to the Management Car d on the Battery Management System master contr oller . Perform these step s: 1. On the Network menu o f the Web interface of the Batte ry Management System, s elect the T elnet/SSH option.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 145 How to Export Configuration Settin gs Retrieving and Exporting the .ini file Summary of the pr ocedur e As an Administrator , you can ret rieve a dynamically genera ted .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 146 Contents of the .ini file The config.ini file that y ou retrieve from a Battery Management Sys tem Management Card contains the follo wing: • section .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 147 Detail ed pr o cedures Use the following proced ures to retrieve t he settings of one Batte ry Management System Ma nagement Card and export them to one o r more other Battery Managem ent System Mana gement Card(s).
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 148 Customizing. Y ou mus t customize the file to change at least the TCP/IP settings before you exp ort it. 1. Use a text editor to cus tomize the file. – Section headings, keyw ords, and pre-de fined values are not case - sensitive, but s tring values that you defin e are case-sensitive.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 149 – Retain the original customized file for future use. The fi le that you ret ain is the only record of your comments. They are removed automatically from the file that you export . Exporting the file to a single Batter y Management System Management Card.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 150 The event and its err or messages The following system even t occurs when the receiving Battery Managem ent System completes using the .ini file to up date its settings. Configuration file upload complete, with number valid values This event has no defa ult severity level.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 151 Messages in config .ini A device associ ated with the Battery Man agement System from whic h you download the config.in i file must be disco vered successfully in orde r for its configuration to be incl uded.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 152 Using the Device IP Configuration Wizar d On Windows operating s ystems, you can choose to update the b asic TCP/IP settings of the Battery Managemen t System’s Management Card by using the APC Device IP Configuration W izard.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 153 APC Device IP Configuration Wizar d Purpose and Requir ements Purpose: configur e basic TCP/IP settings Y ou can use the APC Device IP Configura tion Wi.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 154 Install the Wizar d Downlo ad the wizar d Y ou c an download the latest v ersion of the APC Device IP Configuration Wizard from the APC web site, www.apc.com and run setup.exe from the folder to which you dow nloaded it.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 155 Use the Wizar d Launch the Wiz ar d The installation creates a shortcut link in the Sta rt menu that you can use to launch the Wizard. Configur e the basic TCP/IP settings r emotely Pr epar e to configur e the settings.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 156 Run the Wizar d to perform the configuration. T o discover and configure, over the net work, installed or embedded Ne twork Management Cards that are not configured: 1. From the Star t menu, la unch the Wizard.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 157 Configur e or r econfigur e the TCP/ IP settings locally T o configure a single Ne twork Management Card t hrough a serial connection: 1. Contact your network administrator to obtain valid TCP/IP settings.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 158 File T ransfers Intr od uction Overview The Battery Manageme nt System Manag ement Card automatically recognizes binary firmware files.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 159 Upgrading Firmwar e Firm war e defined Broadly defined, firmware is highly specializ ed, reliable software that resides on a memory chip within a comput er or computer-related devi ce.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 160 Obtain the latest firmwar e version T o determine if updated firmware is available to do wnload, go to the “Software Downloads” page, www .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 161 Firmwar e files (Battery Management System) The APC Operating Sys tem (AOS) and a pplication module files use d with the Battery Manageme nt System share t he same basic format: apc_hw0 x _ type_version .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 162 Firmwar e file transfer methods Y ou c an use FTP or SCP to up grade the firmware of one or more Battery Management System Ma nagement Cards over the network. Y ou c an use XMODEM to upgra de the firmware for a Mana gement Card that is not on the netw ork.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 163 Use F TP or SCP to upgr ade one Battery Managemen t System Management Car d For you to be able to u se FTP to upgra de a single Battery Manag ement System over the networ k: • The Battery Manageme nt System must b e connected to the netw ork.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 164 3. T ype open and the Battery Manageme nt System’s IP address, and press E NTER . If the Por t setting for FTP S erver in the Network men u has changed from its default value of 21 , you must use the non-de fault value in the FTP comma nd.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 165 T o use Secure CoPy (SC P) to upgrade the firmware for one Battery Management System Ma nagement Card: 1. Identify and locate the firmware modules described in the precedin g instructions for FTP . 2. Use an SCP command line to tra nsfer the AOS firmwa re module to the Battery Management S ystem.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 166 Use F TP or SCP to upgrade mult iple Battery Management Syst em Management Car ds T o upgrade multiple Ba ttery Management System Management Cards using an FTP client or u sing SCP , write a script which automatically performs the pr ocedure.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 167 3. Run a terminal program ( such as HyperT erminal), and configure the selected port for 960 0 bps (or 19200 bps), 8 data bits, no p ar ity , 1 stop bit, and no flow control , and save the c hanges. 4. Press E NTER to display t he User Name prompt.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 168 V erifying Upgrades and Updates Overview T o verify that the firmware upgrade was successful, see the Last T r ansfer Result message, availab le through the F TP Server option of the Network menu (in the control con sole only), or use an SNMP GET to the mfiletransferSt atusLas tT ransferResult OID.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 169 Alarms Fault Alarm Criteria Fault LED Fault Criteri a Charger V oltage Low Charger Less than 2.1 volts per cell for lead-acid batteries, or as set by user . Charger V oltage High Charger Greater than 2.4 volts per cell for lead-acid batteries or as set by user .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 170 Alarm Relay and LED Operation Situ atio n/Co nditi on Ala rm R ela y St a tus LE Ds N OTE : Alarm Relay operates as a “Fail- Safe” device th at is energized durin g non-alarmed peri ods.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 171 T r oubleshooting Management Car d Access pr oblems (Battery Management Syste m Management Ca r d) Problem S olution Unable to ping the Managem ent Card.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 172 Cannot access the control console through a seria l connection Make sure that you did not change the baud rate. T ry 2400, 9600, 19200, or 38400. Cannot access the control console remotely • Make sure you are using the correct access method (T elnet or SSH).
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 173 SNMP issues (Ba tter y Management Sys tem Management Ca r d) Problem S olution Unable to perform a GET 1 . V erify the read (GET) community name. 2 . Use the Control Consol e or Web interface to ensure that the NMS h as access.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 174 Pr oduct Information W arranty and Ser vice Limited warranty APC warrants the Battery Manageme nt System to be free from defects in materials and workmansh ip for a period of two years from the date o f purchase.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 175 Obtaining serv ice (service contracts) If you could not resolve the problem usin g the information in T roubleshootin g , contact APC Worldwide Customer.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 176 Life-Support Po licy General policy American Power Conversion (A PC) does not recomme nd the use of any of its products in the following situations: •.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 177 Index A About menu option 73 Access Access Type setting for SNMP 48 FTP Server 39 limiting NMS SNMP access by IP address 47 locall y to the control cons.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 178 BOOTP Afte r IP Assi gnm ent se tting 105 Communication setti ngs 36 DHCP & BOOTP boot process 102 Remain in DHCP & BOOTP mode setting 10 5 BOOT.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 179 DHCP Afte r IP Assi gnm ent se tting 105 APC cookie 106 Communication setti ngs 36 Configurat ion 101 Cookie Is sett ing 105 DHCP & BOOTP boot proce.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 180 F Facility (Syslog setting) 49 File transfers 7 1, 158 firmwa re f iles 161 methods 16 2 using F TP or SCP 16 3 using X MODEM 166 upgrading firmwar e 15.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 181 Manage ment cont roller 7 alarms 2 5 Manua l boot mode sett ing 34 Manua l option to set d ate and time 67 Manufactu re date 73 Map to Syslog ’s Prior.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 182 Preferen ces 71 Primar y NTP Ser ver 68 Protoco l Mode selecti ng for control conso le access 4 2 selecting f or Web access 54 R RADIUS setti ngs 64 Rea.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 183 e-mail 86 e-mail sett ings 87 SNMP 47 Access Type settin g 48 Community name settin g 47 enabling and disa bling 47 interfa ce 12 NMS IP/Domain Name set.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 184 setting port assi gnments for extr a securit y 112 subnet mask 33 , 34 system IP address 33, 34 User Class setting 36 , 10 4 Vendor Class sett ing 36, 1.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 185 V Vendor Class setting 36, 104 W Warning, severity le vel 93 Web int erface 9 enable or disabl e protocols 54 Modifying t he Port setting for FTP 39 for HTTP 55 for HTTPS 55 for SSH 43 for Telnet 43 troubles hooting access problems 172 Web/SS L 52– 60 Secure Sockets Layer .
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 186 APC W orldwide Customer Support Customer support for this or any other A PC product is available a t no charge in any of the following ways: • Visit the APC Web site to access documents in the APC Kn owledge Base and to submit c ustomer support requests.
® USER’S GUIDE Battery Management System 187 Copyright Entire contents © 2005 American Power Conversion. All rig ht s r eserved. Reproduction in whole o r in part without permission is p rohibited. APC and the APC logo are trade marks of American Power Conversion Corpora tion and may be registered in some jurisdiction s.
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