About this User's Guide

This guide explains how to use PowerChute® plus with an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) manufactured by American Power Conversion (APC).

This guide contains the following chapters and appendices:

How to Start Monitoring a UPS:
Describes the components of and how to start using PowerChute plus.

How to Test PowerChute plus Operation:
Describes how to verify that the UPS and PowerChute plus are operating correctly.

PowerChute plus Main Screen:
Describes the part of PowerChute plus which you first see and use: the Main Screen.

How to Configure PowerChute plus:
Describes the configuration procedures you must perform immediately after installing PowerChute plus, and how to use the Configuration menu to configure the following:

How to Configure FlexEvents:
Describes how to use FlexEvents to do the following:

System Monitoring and Shutdown:
Describes how to use the System menu to do the following:

How to Log Events and Data:
Explains how to use the Logging menu to control recording UPS and site-power data in the PowerChute plus logs:

How to Perform UPS Diagnostics:
Describes how to use the Diagnostics menu to do the following:

How to Configure System Shutdown and Restart:
Describes how to ensure that when a power failure occurs, PowerChute plus has enough time to shut down the system before the system's UPS can no longer use battery power to keep the system running.

FlexEvents Reference:
Describes the FlexEvents that can occur.

Initialization (.ini) File:
Describes how to edit the initialization file and identifies the PowerChute plus parameters that you can modify only by editing the initialization file.

How to Select a Language for Event Text:
Describes how to use the PowerChute plus initialization file to select the language you want PowerChute plus to use for event text and notification messages: English (the default), Spanish, French, German, or Italian.

Apache Shutdown Utility:
Describes the use of APC's special utility to configure the automatic shut-down of Apache HTTP Server software.