Contents
Safety
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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The IBM Documentation CD
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Installation requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Parts that come with the PDU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Features of the PDU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hardware components
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Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
PDU load groups
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Chapter 2. Installing the PDU vertically in a rack cabinet
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Installing the PDU in the side of a rack cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing the PDU in the side of an IBM Enterprise rack cabinet only . . . . . 15
Chapter 3. Installing the PDU horizontally in a rack cabinet
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Chapter 4. Cabling the PDU
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Connecting the console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting to a LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connecting output devices
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Connecting an environmental monitoring probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 5. Monitoring the power status
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Using the IBM DPI Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using HyperTerminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Configuration Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Setting the IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the web interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Starting the web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Environment status and configuration
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Modifying the basic settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Changing the network information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
History and event log summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 6. Using the environmental monitoring probe
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Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing the environmental monitoring probe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Chapter 7. Customer replaceable unit parts
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Chapter 8. PDU specifications
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Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance
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Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . 56
How to send Dynamic System Analysis data to IBM . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Creating a personalized support web page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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