Network Card

The Eaton Gigabit Network Card (Network-M2) is Eaton's latest UPS connectivity device that delivers IT professionals with new and exciting capabilities and features. With faster speed and enhanced cybersecurity, the Gigabit Network Card improves power system reliability by providing warnings of pending issues to administrators and helping to perform orderly graceful shutdown of servers and storage. The new network card works with Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) v 1.61 or higher to improve business continuity by triggering policies configured to keep mission critical applications running in the event of power or environmental anomalies, including virtual machine relocation or automated disaster recovery action.

Details

• Gigabit speed: compatible with better performing, cost effective and widely deployed gigabit network switches
• Compliance with Gigabit only data center networks
• Cybersecurity enhancements, including stronger encryption, configurable password policy and usage of CA and PKI signed certificates
• Real-time clock with battery backup and NTP
• Increased memory for improved operation and larger data storage
• Modern user experience with latest web technology
• Secure SMTP for email alerts
• LDAP/ActiveDirectory and Radius for centralised user authentication
• Syslog integration

Monitoring probe

Eaton is also offering a new Environmental Monitoring Probe (EMP) Gen 2 (EMPDT1H1C2), a second-generation environmental monitoring probe for the Gigabit Network Card. The new EMP maintains all the functionality of the previous generation of sensors (temperature, humidity and dry-contact monitoring) while adding the ability to be daisy-chained (up to 3 per host), allowing multiple sensor connection to a single host. This enhances the richness of racklevel environmental data for the top, middle and bottom of the rack. Temperature, humidity, and contact status can be viewed with a Web browser through the Network user interface. Hot-swap feature simplifies installation to enable you to install the probe without turning off the power to the device or to the loads that are connected to it.

The EMP monitors the status of the two user-provided contact devices and can be located 50m from the network card using standard CAT5 network cable. The probe is delivered with a screw and screw anchor, nylon fasteners, tie wraps, and magnets.

Value of UPS connectivity

Eaton's full range of network connectivity devices enables you to remotely monitor and manage your power quality equipment. From outlet by outlet energy consumption reports to temperature and humidity readings, connectivity devices give you full control of your IT environment from offsite. This high level of awareness and control allows you to take full advantage of helping ensure business continuity.