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This reply was originally posted by Angela on APC forums on 1/10/2014
Here is a good resource to start better understanding what AP9630 can offer (it is a "Network Management Card 2")-> http://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/SMAN-7PESTS/SMAN-7PESTS_R4_EN.pdf
This is a very powerful product. It's first purpose is to provide remote UPS management - meaning "manage" your UPS by doing things like receiving (potentially proactive) notifications of any events you want to know about via SMTP, syslog, SMTP, or strictly from the interface on the card itself, viewing general UPS status information, issuing runtime calibrations and other diagnostics, monitoring voltage/load/etc over time, all via the network via HTTP/HTTPS, telnet, SSH, or SNMP. It is also firmware upgradable, offers multiple user logins and different user permission levels, an onboard firewall, language packs, and a command line interface for optional scripting of many of these things. It also offers mass configuration options and onboard log files which can be downlaoded for storage or used by technical support or even for some auditing purposes (who logged in or out for example).
In addition to providing remote UPS management, this card works in conjunction with PowerChute Network Shutdown (PCNS) software that can be installed on any supporting operating system on the devices attached to your UPS to achieve graceful shutdown. See these application notes for further details on this topic -> http://www.apc.com/whitepaper/?an=20, http://www.apc.com/whitepaper/?an=170.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any further questions. It's my favorite product 
and I deal with them all day long.
This reply was originally posted by Angela on APC forums on 1/10/2014
Here is a good resource to start better understanding what AP9630 can offer (it is a "Network Management Card 2")-> http://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/SMAN-7PESTS/SMAN-7PESTS_R4_EN.pdf
This is a very powerful product. It's first purpose is to provide remote UPS management - meaning "manage" your UPS by doing things like receiving (potentially proactive) notifications of any events you want to know about via SMTP, syslog, SMTP, or strictly from the interface on the card itself, viewing general UPS status information, issuing runtime calibrations and other diagnostics, monitoring voltage/load/etc over time, all via the network via HTTP/HTTPS, telnet, SSH, or SNMP. It is also firmware upgradable, offers multiple user logins and different user permission levels, an onboard firewall, language packs, and a command line interface for optional scripting of many of these things. It also offers mass configuration options and onboard log files which can be downlaoded for storage or used by technical support or even for some auditing purposes (who logged in or out for example).
In addition to providing remote UPS management, this card works in conjunction with PowerChute Network Shutdown (PCNS) software that can be installed on any supporting operating system on the devices attached to your UPS to achieve graceful shutdown. See these application notes for further details on this topic -> http://www.apc.com/whitepaper/?an=20, http://www.apc.com/whitepaper/?an=170.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any further questions. It's my favorite product and I deal with them all day long.
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