PANDUIT
®
DPoE
™ Power Patch Panel User Manual
Part Number: PN378E
34
Panel IP Address
The
DPoE
™ Power Patch Panels come with a factory setting of DHCP address assignment. After the
panel is connected to the
DPoE
™ Element Manager, the network administrator may change this setting
by adding an IP address & Subnet Mask, if desired, to be consistent with the rest of his/her network. The
Gateway field is the IP address of a gateway. If the
DPoE
™ Element Manager and the
DPoE
™ Power
Patch Panels are on different networks or if the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server is on a
different network from the panel, the panel will send those messages to the gateway IP address specified.
NOTE:
The
DPoE
™ Power Patch Panel supports either static IP addressing or DHCP
address selection.
This portion of the screen can be used to set the
Panel Attributes
Panel Name, Rack Name, Rack Space Position, Panel
Physical Location, and Power Supply Location. These fields are freeform and, while these fields will not
change the operation of the
DPoE
™ Element Manager, they allow the
DPoE
™ Element Manager to
present the panel and rack information in a user-friendly format. For example, with these fields set,
panels in the same rack will be grouped together in the Tree View of the Network area on the system-
level opening screen. Likewise, panels wired in a single rack will be displayed consistent with the value in
the Rack Space Position field (refer to
Provisioning the Pane
l
for more information).
Once these values are set in the
DPoE
™ Element Manager, this information will be transmitted and
stored in the
DPoE
™ Power Patch Panels.
Two additional fields are available on this screen and affect the operation of the panel. The first field, the
Power Threshold, allows the network operator to configure the available power for this panel as a
percentage of the maximum power the panel can support. For example, although the panel can support
480 watts, panels that use external power supplies, rather than a direct 48-volt input, are not normally
capable of supplying 480 watts of power. Therefore, the Power Threshold for this panel might be set at
30%. And the Power Warning Threshold, which tells the panel when to send an alarm messages, might
be set at 10%, so that the panel starts alarming when it reaches 90% of this particular panel's maximum
(refer to
DPoE™ Element Manager Log Messages
for more information on Power Warning Threshold).
The Enable Trap is a checkbox ( ) to quickly turn on/off an individual panel’s reporting of threshold
power alarms.
SNMP Settings
The system defaults to “
public
” for the SNMP Read Community and
“private”
for the SNMP Write
Community.
IMPORTANT:
The SNMP Community fields are case-sensitive and allow SNMP messages to be
exchanged between the
DPoE
™ Element Manager and the
DPoE
™ Power Patch
Panels.
For security reasons, these fields should be changed from their defaults. However,
caution should be taken to remember these settings as there are no provisions for
recalling them once set.
