UPS Management Software Guide
What is UPS Management Software?
APC PowerChute™ is a UPS management software enabling graceful system shutdowns and providing energy management capabilities. During a power disturbance, PowerChute software allows you to remotely shutdown your connected critical devices, preventing potential data loss or corruption.
PowerChute software provides peace of mind at home or the office.
Protect and prevent data loss: Provides data security and resiliency during prolonged power disturbances
Enable proactive uptime: Unattended start-up ensures uptime immediately when power conditions are restored
Integration into existing Enterprise Management Systems: Multi-protocol support provides flexible solution integration
Which UPS Management Software should I use?
PowerChute Serial Shutdown
UPS management, graceful shutdown, and energy management software for desktop, servers and workstations using dedicated serial or USB connections. Keep your critical home, home office, or small and medium business protected and prepared for unexpected power disturbances with PowerChute Serial Shutdown. Compatible with our Home and Office Electronics and Network and Server UPS products.
Download PowerChute Serial ShutdownPowerChute Personal Edition
PowerChute Personal Edition is now being directly replaced by PowerChute Serial Shutdown. Keep your critical home and home office devices connected. Protect your personal and professional data and prolong your high-end PC’s life expectancy with PowerChute Serial Shutdown, compatible with Back-UPS models.
Learn more about PowerChute Serial Shutdown
PowerChute Business Edition
PowerChute Business Edition is now being directly replaced by PowerChute Serial Shutdown. Ensure your small and medium business is protected and be prepared for unexpected power disturbances with PowerChute Serial Shutdown, compatible with Smart-UPS models.
Learn more about PowerChute Serial ShutdownPowerChute Network Shutdown
Get network-based, graceful, unattended shutdown of physical servers and virtual machines, protect data integrity and reduce system downtime during critical events with PowerChute Network Shutdown, compatible with Smart-UPS models with a Network Management Card.
Download Network Shutdown
How does UPS Graceful Shutdown work?
1. During prolonged power disturbances beyond the UPS backup duration, PowerChute triggers a graceful unattended shutdown of your connected equipment (PC, servers).
2. In enterprise environments, PowerChute Network Shutdown ensures the shutdown of virtual machines (VMs) is in the correct sequence. This capability maintains uptime by allowing workloads on virtual machines to continue running by moving them to hosts that are not impacted by the power outage. The sequenced migration protects against potential data loss and corruption.
3. When power is restored, the UPS turns on and begins supplying power to the server(s). Once the servers are back up, PowerChute Network Shutdown can detect stable conditions and then start the cluster services and VMs.
What is the installation process?
Serial Shutdown
Connect the APC USB cable to your PC or servers USB port. Then download the software directly onto your computer, this will only take a few minutes. From there, the software will recognise the UPS. Follow the installation guide for installation instructions.
Read the installation guideNetwork Shutdown
PowerChute Network Shutdown works in conjunction with the Schneider Electric Network Management Card (NMC) to communicate with the UPS to protect the physical and virtual environments. Each Smart-UPS requires its own NMC to communicate with the PowerChute software. PowerChute needs to run on a separate Windows/Linux/other server to control the system.
Understand the next steps
Back-UPS Mac OS User?
Mac OS is not a supported operating system for PowerChute Serial Shutdown. Energy management features and scheduled shutdown are Mac OS native features.
