Cannot Configure Rack PDU's

[BillP]

This question was originally posted by Todd on APC forums on 9/15/2015

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History and I have no idea how this happened...

We have 8861, 8868, and 8961 PDU's.

Some of them have the Schneider Firmware and some still have the APC firmware.

When trying to access the Schneider ones, we receive The Application is incompatible with this APC OS.

When accessing the APC ones, it gives us ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH and will not continue.

At this point we cannot access any of our PDU's and need to.

I've already tried falling back in Firefox to TLS 1.0, same in Chrome and IE. Doesn't work.

Any help provided is appreciated. 

[BillP]

This reply was originally posted by Jordan on APC forums on 9/15/2015

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Todd,

Are you able to telnet into these PDU's? What are the status/link lights displaying on these units?  Can you think of any action/changes on your network or devices that could have caused this sudden problem amongst all your units (ie. attempted FW upgrades)?  Do you know exactly which firmware is running on these PDU's?  If you can telnet into these devices, what is the "PNA" status in the upper right hand corner of the page?

If all this happened at once, I would first think a network changed effected all the PDU's.  I would also recommend upgrading your Gen 2 PDU's (AP8xxx) to the latest firmware, 6.3.3 found on the link below, as the update provides TLS 1.0 and 1.1 functionality.

http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP8868&ISOCountryCode=us&ta...

[BillP · Accepted solution]

This reply was originally posted by Todd on APC forums on 9/15/2015

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Firmware varies. The ones I can get into have old APC firmware. Here is the screenshot of About in one that I can get to.

The ones with Schneider firmware I can't get to.