PowerAlert 12 Console Overview

 

PowerAlert 12's  interface is designed for easy configuration and manipulation of any manageable power device that Tripp Lite offers. The PowerAlert Console can be broken down in to three main areas  identified below :

 

 

 

Section 1-Menu options

The larger buttons on the menu bar are headings.  Clicking on a heading will reveal smaller sub-menu buttons to the right of the selected heading. Clicking on sub-menu heading will make it active, changing button to change to a grey/blue button.  

 

 

The data section below the menu bar corresponds to the currently activated menu button.   

 

Section 2-Data Section

Selecting various men items will cause PowerAlert to show your power device's data status information, configuration options or management tools.

 

  

Section 3-Device Information

The device information section of the PowerAlert Console provides the user with device specific information as well as alarm status for any power device being monitored on the computer system by PowerAlert. One of PowerAlert 12's new features is its ability to monitor multiple devices (i.e. UPSes) on a single computer system.  This new feature now gives IT administrators the ability to have multiple UPS systems on a computer system for redundancy purposes and manage both.  Previous to PowerAlert 12 it was not possible to monitor multiple UPS systems on a single computer system.

 Tripp Lite Logo

Clicking on the Tripp Lite logo will launch a web browser session and connect to Tripp Lite's web site. (www.tripplite.com)

 

Engine Address

Identifies the IP address of the system that the PowerAlert Console is connected to.

 

Device Name

This field will provide a list of all power devices being monitored by Power Alert. To see other equipment currently being Tmonitored by PowerAlert, click the drop-down arrow. Devices are named Device 1, Device 2, etc. by default.  If you wish to rename your devices to something more specific, go to the Settings menu and select the Device sub-menu button and change the name.  (Device names becomes important when monitoring and managing multiple UPS systems on a single computer system.

 

Manufacturer

Displays the name of the manufacture of the power device being monitored.

 

Model

Displays the device model

 

Location

This field is empty by default. To define the device location click the Settings menu and select the Device sub-menu button to define a location for the device.

 

Alarm Status

This is an  easy way to monitor the connected devices for normal or alarm conditions.  If more than one device is being monitored and an alarm condition exists, the alarm status icon will appear regardless of which device you are currently viewing.

 

Device

Identifies the device that has the alarm condition.

 

Cause

Displays the cause of the alarm such as UPS on Battery

 

Response

Displays the PowerAlert's response or a possible user response to the alarm.  For example, if a UPS goes to battery and PowerAlert is

configured to shutdown the operating system in the response field a message will appear saying "Prepare system for shutdown"

 

Device button

Clicking on the device button will cause PowerAlert to display the information of the device that is currently in an alarm condition

 

Logs button

Clicking the log button will bring up PowerAlert's event log