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Easy-to-use, safe system shutdown software with power and energy management features for home computers and battery backups.

PowerChute Personal Edition software provides safe system shutdown in the event of an extended power outage or computer power problem, preventing potential data corruption. Designed for exceptional usability, it provides first-time users with optimal PC power protection based on APC industry-leading power management expertise. Users also have the option to tailor PowerChute settings for their individual circumstances. Energy cost and CO2 monitoring provides users with a greater understanding of the energy consumed by protected equipment and energy plans enable cost savings. Note: Features vary by Back-UPS model and by operating system.

Features & Benefits:

• PowerChute Personal Edition OS Compatibility - This software supports numerous operating systems and processors. For further information, please click here.
• Compatible with Back-UPS models - Back-UPS ES, Back-UPS CS, Back-UPS LS, Back-UPS RS.

• Automatic self-test - Periodic battery self-test ensures early detection of a battery that needs to be replaced.
• Status at a glance - Quickly assess power status.
• Power performance - Summarizes power problems such as blackouts and electrical noise over time.

• Hibernation - Preserves entire state of system and speeds time to recovery.
• Operating System Shutdown - Prevents possible data corruption by performing graceful, unattended operating system shutdown in the event of an extended power outage or computer power problem.

• Exclusive silent operation at night - Ensures you won't lose sleep over your PC power protection.
• Context-sensitive help - Actively let you know if the unit is on battery, if the battery is low or if there is an overload condition.
• Installation - Fast, easy installation takes the guesswork out of configuration for first-time users.

UPS management, safe system shutdown, and energy management software for up to 25 servers and workstations using dedicated serial or USB connections.

PowerChute Business Edition software provides UPS management, safe system shutdown and innovative energy management capabilities. In the event of an extended power outage, graceful unattended shutdown ensures no information is lost and time to recovery is minimized. Energy cost and CO2 reporting provides greater understanding of the energy consumed by IT equipment enabling improved energy efficiency. Highly valued risk assessment reports detect potential threats to availability while advanced analysis features help to identify the causes of potential UPS and power related problems before they occur, ensuring the health of your system.

Features & Benefits

• Data logging - Identify problematic trends before they escalate or export the data log for analysis.
• Event logging - Pinpoint the timing and sequence of events leading up to an incident with the event log.
• Run command file - Run command file on network shutdown sequence as well as start-up sequence.
• Notification - Be notified of problems to ensure crucial situations are dealt with in a timely manner.
• Smart Battery Management - Battery replacement date and Replacement Battery Cartridge (RBC) number available via software user interface which provides a seamless link to order the correct RBC’s online.
• Recommended Actions - Intelligent alarm descriptions coupled with recommended resolutions reduces the need for training and mean time to repair.
• Multiple Smart-UPS Management - Customize your UPS status overview to centrally display parameters such as battery replacement date and runtime remaining.

• Initial Set-Up Wizard - Enables ease of configuration and ensures IT equipment is protected as quickly as possible.
• Discovery - Speed deployment by specifying remote networks segments or an IP address range to discover APC UPSs.
• Secure communications - Secured web access via HTTPS, as the default, ensures that communication between the device and the client interfaces cannot be interpreted.
• Password Security - User-selectable password protection prevents unauthorized access, authorized against LDAP and Active Directory servers.
• SMTP Authentication - Secure Mail Transfer Protocol support to authenticate e-mail

• Communication Computer Interface Cable UPS cable provides dedicated serial/USB communication between the UPS and the server, independent of the network.
• PowerChute Business Edition OS Compatibility - This software supports numerous operating systems and processors. For further information, please click here.
• System Event Log Integration - Writes events to Windows operating system event logs.
• Enterprise management system compatible - Make device information available to your preferred enterprise management system by forwarding SNMP traps (events) across SNMPv1, SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 using the PowerNet MIB.

• Voltage analysis Monitors input line voltage over time to ensure it is within high and low transfer parameters.
• Risk assessment summary - Maximize uptime by identifying potential threats to the availability of your equipment such as aging batteries or insufficient runtime.
• Power event summary - Analyze power by pinpointing frequent or extended under and over voltages. Alerts you to unusual or chronic power situations that require attention.
• Power Analysis Graph - Graph power and UPS events by time of day or week to easily identify periodic, recurring power disturbances.

• Configurable energy costs - Update energy costs as they change to ensure your energy cost reports are completely accurate.
• Energy costing - Understand the cost of powering your protected equipment.
• CO2 Emissions - Reporting Monitor the environmental impact of powering your protected equipment.
• Energy usage reporting - Gain a fact-based understanding of the energy usage of your protected equipment.

• Operating System Shutdown - Prevents possible data corruption by performing graceful, unattended operating system shutdown in the event of an extended power outage or computer power problem.
• Load shedding - Turn off select outlet groups in a pre-determined sequence to shed less critical equipment and conserve runtime (UPSs with switched outlet groups).
• Sequenced shutdown and restart - Customize network shutdown and reboot sequence of connected servers and UPSs.
• Outlet group control - Turn on/off, reboot or shut down select outlet groups to save dispatching technicians to remote locations (for UPSs with switched outlet groups).
• Scheduling capability - Customize a schedule for the shutdown and reboot of connected equipment and UPSs.

Reliable network-based shutdown of multiple servers.

PowerChute Network Shutdown works in conjunction with the APC UPS Network Management Card to protect your physical and virtual IT environment from threats to IT availability. Network-based, graceful, unattended shutdown of your physical servers and virtual machines protects data integrity and reduces system downtime when critical events such as extended power outages occur. Its scalable architecture can support a virtually unlimited number of client systems. PowerChute Network Shutdown is easily configurable via a browser interface and supports Single, Redundant and Parallel UPS configurations.

Features & Benefits

• PowerChute Network Shutdown OS Compatibility - This software supports numerous operating systems and processors. For further information, please click here.
• Certifications - Certified VMware Ready and Nutanix Ready.
• IPv6 Support - Capable of operating on a network using IPv6 protocol
• Advanced Redundant UPS Setups - Monitors multiple groups of redundant UPS's; each with configurable redundancy levels such as N+1, N+2 or N+3. Shutdown actions depend on the number of UPS's and the level of redundancy in each UPS setup.
• Redundant-UPS configuration support - Supports up to four UPS’s in a Redundant-UPS configuration. All UPS’s in a Redundant Configuration must belong to the same UPS family.
• Parallel-UPS configuration support - Recognizes a Parallel-UPS configuration as a single UPS system in the case of actionable events (for UPS devices that are parallel-capable).

• Event logging - Pinpoint the timing and sequence of events leading up to an incident with the event log.

• Run command file - Run command file on network shutdown sequence as well as start-up sequence.
• Secure communications - Secured web access via HTTPS, as the default, ensures that communication between the device and the client interfaces cannot be interpreted.
• Sequenced Server Shutdown - Sequences the shutdown of multiple servers powered by the same UPS to extend runtime for higher priority servers.
• Sequenced network shutdown and reboot - Customize network shutdown and reboot sequence of connected servers and UPSs.
• Operating System Shutdown - Prevents possible data corruption by performing graceful, unattended operating system shutdown in the event of an extended power outage or computer power problem.

• Virtual Cluster Support - Supports virtual machine migration, virtual machine shutdown and host shutdown in Virtual Clusters.
• Virtual Cluster View - Displays a graphical representation of your Virtual Cluster environment and UPS setup on a single screen to provide an intuitive view of your UPS and Host configuration.
• Virtual Machine Prioritization - Control the order in which virtual machines are migrated, shut down and powered on by moving virtual machines into High, Medium and Low Priority Groups.
• VMware vApp Shutdown - Enables shutdown and startup of VMware vApps to control the sequence of virtual machine shutdown/startup.
• Virtual Machine Migration Options - Triggers virtual machine migration to available hosts in the same cluster on a single site or across different geographical locations. The option to control where specific virtual machines get migrated to is available by specifying the target host in either the same cluster or a different cluster.
• Microsoft SCVMM Integration - Provides the option to integrate with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and leverage maintenance mode to migrate or save virtual machines when a critical UPS Event occurs.
• VMware vSphere Plug-in Options - A vSphere plug-in option integrates PowerChute with vCenter Server for ease of management enabling PowerChute monitoring with the vSphere Client. Plug-in options are available for either the vSphere Web Client or vSphere Desktop Client.
• VMware Virtual Appliance - Provides the option to deploy PowerChute as a virtual appliance for ease of installation.

• StruxureWare Data Center Expert Compatibility - Discover and monitor PowerChute Agents via SNMP v1 or v3. Integrate SNMP Traps for timely notifications of UPS critical events.
• Network Management System Integration - Discover and manage PowerChute machines by using SNMP v1 or v3 to query and configure PowerChute settings. Send SNMP Traps for critical UPS events ensuring timely notifications.
• Network-based shutdown - Reduces cable clutter by eliminating the need to connect the UPS and protected servers via cables.
• Text-based INI configuration file - Allows for flexibility in archiving configuration settings or copying configured settings from one Agent to another.
• Step-by-step configuration wizard - Speeds deployment by reducing installation and set-up time. Allows configuration changes even after initial set-up.
• Browser accessible - View the user interface with a browser. Provides quick access from anywhere on a secure network.

Remote monitoring and control of an individual UPS by connecting it directly to the network.

APC UPS Network Management Cards allow for secure monitoring and control of an individual APC UPS via web browser, command line interface, or SNMP. The configurable notification features keep you informed of problems as they occur. For protected servers, the included PowerChuteTM Network Shutdown software provides graceful, unattended shutdown in the event of an extended power outage, always keeping business information safe.

Features & Benefits

• Flash upgradeable firmware - Install maintenance releases of firmware remotely using FTP.
• Browser accessible - View the user interface with a browser. Provides quick access from anywhere on a secure network.

• Reboot equipment remotely - Saves dispatching technicians to remote locations.

• Multi-tier user access - Supports up to four access levels - Administrator, Device User, Read-Only User and Network-only User - with user name and password requirements.
• Password security - User-selectable password protection prevents unauthorized access, authorized against LDAP and Active Directory servers.
• PowerChute Network Shutdown - Reliable network-based shutdown of multiple servers
• Radius support - Use an existing radius server to securely authenticate, authorize, and account for your APC device.

• Enterprise management system compatible Make device information available to your preferred enterprise management system by forwarding SNMP traps (events) across SNMPv1, SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 using the PowerNet MIB.
• Integrates with StruxureWare Data Center Expert - An IT-ready, scalable access monitoring system that collects, organizes, and distributes critical alerts, surveillance video and key information, providing a unified view of complex physical infrastructure environments from anywhere on the network.
• Event logging - Pinpoint the timing and sequence of events leading up to an incident with the event log.
• Data logging - Identify problematic trends before they escalate or export the data log for analysis.
• Scheduling - Customize shut down and reboot of connected equipment and UPSs.
• Notification - Be notified of problems to ensure crucial situations are dealt with in a timely manner.