Regarding Power Threshold Alert on PDU APC AP8853

[EArohitsingh]

Hi.

I was using APC AP8853. Is there any way to 

• check and notify via email if power utilization of PDU exceeds certain threshold? If yes, what steps should I follow?
• check and notify via email if power utilization per socket of PDU exceeds certain threshold? If yes, what steps should I follow?

Any help would be beneficial. Thanks! 

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[dpierce4776]

To configure load thresholds
1. To configure load thresholds for the device, phases, or banks, make a selection from the
Configuration > RPDU > Device and Phase and Bank drop-down menu. To configure load
thresholds for outlets, click Configuration and then click an outlet.
2. Set Overload Alarm, Near Overload Warning, and Low Load Warning thresholds. You
can specify thresholds to one decimal point.
3. Click Apply to save your settings.

You will also need to set up your email notifications

Use Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send email to up to four recipients when an event
occurs. To use the email feature, you must define the following settings:
• The IP addresses of the primary and, optionally, the secondary Domain Name System (DNS)
servers.
• The IP address or DNS name for the SMTP Server and From Address.
• The email addresses for a maximum of four recipients.
• You can use the To Address setting of the recipients option to send email to a text-based
screen.
Path: Configuration > Notification > Email > Server
This screen lists your primary and secondary DNS servers and displays the following fields:
From Address: The contents of the From field in email messages sent by the RPDU:
• In the format user@ [IP_address] (if an IP address is specified as Local SMTP Server)
• In the format user@domain (if DNS is configured and the DNS name is specified as Local
SMTP Server) in the email messages.
NOTE: The local SMTP server may require that you use a valid user account on the server for
this setting. See the server documentation.
SMTP Server: The IPv4/ IPv6 address or DNS name of the local SMTP server.
NOTE: This definition is required only when the SMTP server is set to Local.
Port: The SMTP port number, with a default of 25. The range is 25, 465, 587, 2525, 5000 to
32768.
Authentication: Enable this if the SMTP server requires authentication.
User Name, Password, and Confirm Password: If your mail server requires authentication,
enter your user name and password here. This performs a simple authentication, not SSL/TLS.
Use SSL/TLS: Select when encryption is used.
• Never: The SMTP server does not require nor support encryption.
• If Supported: The SMTP server advertises support for STARTTLS but doesn't require the
connection to be encrypted. The STARTTLS command is sent after the advertisement is given.
• Always: The SMTP server requires the STARTTLS command to be sent on connection to it.
• Implicitly: The SMTP server only accepts connections that begin encrypted. No STARTTLS
message is sent to the server.
Require CA Root Certificate: This should only be enabled if the security policy of your
organization does not allow for implicit trust of SSL/TLS connections. If this is enabled, a valid root
CA certificate must be loaded onto the RPDU for encrypted emails to be sent.
File Name: This field is dependent on the root CA certificates installed on the RPDU and whether
or not a root CA certificate is required.
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Path: Configuration > Notification > Email > Recipients
Specify up to four email recipients. Click on a name to configure the settings.
Generation: Enables (default) or disables sending email to the recipient.
To Address: The user and domain names of the recipient. To use email for paging, use the email
address for the recipient’s pager gateway account (for example, myacct100@skytel.com). The
pager gateway will generate the page.
To bypass the DNS lookup of the IP address of the mail server, use the IP address in brackets
instead of the email domain name, e.g., use jsmith@[xxx.xxx.x.xxx] instead of
jsmith@company.com. This is useful when DNS lookups are not working correctly.
Language: The language which the email notification will be sent in. This is dependent on the
installed language pack (if applicable).
Port: The SMTP port number, with a default of 25. The range is 25, 465, 587, 2525, 5000 to
32768.
Format: The long format contains name, location, contact, IP address, serial number of the
device, date and time, event code, and event description. The short format provides only the event
description.
Server: Select one of the following methods for routing email:
• Local: This is through the site-local SMTP server. This recommended setting ensures that the
email is sent using the site-local SMTP server. Choosing this setting limits delays and network
outages and retries sending email for many hours. When choosing the Local setting you must
also enable forwarding at the SMTP server of your device and set up a special external email
account to receive the forwarded email. Check with your SMTP server administrator before
making these changes.
• Recipient: This is the SMTP server of the recipient. The RPDU performs an MX record look-up
on the recipients email address and uses that as its SMTP server. The email is only sent once
so it could easily be lost.
• Custom: This setting enables each email recipient to have its own server settings. These
settings are independent of the settings given under “SMTP Server” above.
Path: Configuration > Notification > Email > SSL Certificates
Load a mail SSL/TLS certificate on the Rack PDU for greater security. The file must have an
extension of .crt or .cer. Up to five files can be loaded at any given time.
When installed, the certificate details also display here. An invalid certificate will display “n/a” for all
fields except File Name.
Certificates can be deleted using this screen. Any email recipients using the certificate should be
manually modified to remove reference to this certificate.
Path: Configuration > Notification > Email > Test
Send a test message to a configured recipient.