What's new in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.68 Build 247

Apr 24, 2020
  • New features:
  • vSAN cluster shutdown : configuration with critical VMs supported (IPM or vCenter embedded in the cluster)
  • Connector list updated : it's no longer possible to configure the following connectors with IPM 1.68 : Citrix, Cisco UCS, Openstack
  • These connectors are no longer supported by Eaton IPM. For customers who are using these connectors, they should not upgrade to this release.
  • IPM is now compatible with new 9SX15KPM and 9SX20KPM UPSs
  • Bugs fixes:
  • Mass upgrade available for Network-MS LD version
  • Power components panel now display correctly all data for VPS (including protection state)
  • Prevent Command action to be triggered several times (multiple shutdown orders)
  • HPEOV connector is correctly displayed in connectors panel

New in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.67 Build 243 (Jan 15, 2020)

  • New features:
  • New connector for Dell-EMC VxRail Cluster (VxRail Software Manager v4.5.300 or above):
  • Cluster Monitoring with IPM
  • VxRail Protection cluster shutdown managed with IPM embedded in the cluster (vSphere 6.7 or above)
  • Solution required a Network-M2 communication card to protect the Vxrail cluster (version 1.7.5 or above)
  • IPM mass deployment custom script solution (full API documentation embedded in IPM folder configs/scripts)
  • Bugs fixes:
  • IPM shutdown behaviour fixed :
  • Fix for Infrastructure double shutdown issue when IPM restart (only with Network-M2 & INDGW-M2 cards)
  • Fix to prevent IPM shutdown in case of Short power outage

New in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.67 (Jan 7, 2020)

  • New features:
  • New connector for Dell-EMC VxRail Cluster (VxRail Software Manager v4.5.300 or above):
  • Cluster Monitoring with IPM
  • VxRail Protection : cluster shutdown managed with IPM embedded in the cluster (vSphere 6.7 or above)
  • Solution required a Network-M2 communication card to protect the Vxrail cluster (version 1.7.5 or above)
  • IPM mass deployment custom script solution (full API documentation embedded in IPM : folder configs/scripts)
  • Bugs fixes:
  • IPM shutdown behaviour fixed :
  • Fix for Infrastructure double shutdown issue when IPM restart (only with Network-M2 & INDGW-M2 cards)
  • Fix to prevent IPM shutdown in case of Short power outage

New in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.64 Build 229 (Dec 20, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Eaton System Controller SC200/SC300 compatible with IPM:
  • Monitoring
  • Mass configuration
  • Policy creation based on devices alarms
  • New security settings to manage a session timeout in IPM
  • STARTTLS email protocol compatible with IPM
  • Improvements:
  • Simulation mode for policy : policy can be triggered without running action
  • Bugs fixes:
  • OpenStack connector (OCATA release) compatibility restored
  • VRops connector compatibility restored
  • Cyber-security:
  • Path traversal vulnerability fixed (CVE-2018-12031)

New in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.60 Build 210 (Jun 13, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Nutanix Cluster shutdown based on Acropolis Hypervisor
  • New option to manage manually Duplicated nodes on discovery process
  • IPM OVA package 64bit (based on Debian) including Open VM tools
  • Dynamic group implementation for configuration policy
  • vSAN : cluster shutdown managed by IPM (check Known issues section for configuration restriction)(1.56)
  • Microsoft Hyper-V integration : remote agentless shutdown and remote agentless maintenance mode (1.56)
  • Improvements:
  • Correlation ID algorithm : reinforcing compare rules to determine duplicate nodes (IP address-SN-IPv6)
  • NetApp compatibility with 9.1 OS (starting from 8.3)(1.56)
  • HPE OneView 3.0 compatibility (1.56)
  • VMware : Manage SRM connector and Manage Infrastructure shutdown (1.56)
  • SCVMM is removed from connectors list (1.56)
  • New Eaton Management Pack for OpenStack (Ocata release) brings Virtual Machine Power Optimized Placement capability to OpenStack users thank to IPM (1.56)
  • Bugs fixes:
  • HPE OneView compatibility restored with version 2.x and previous
  • Hyper-V connectors available for IPM OVA package
  • VMs graceful shutdown fixed for MS Hyper-V infrastructure connector
  • VMs location update after a migration of VMs to one Esxi host
  • ESXi 6.0: Hypervisor and Virtual Machine monitoring issues on IPM
  • APC UPSs discovery
  • Prevent Shutdown by IPM when UPSs switch on mechanical Bypass
  • SCVMM connectors configuration still working after an upgrade but no more configurable (replaced by the new MS Hyper-V Connector)

New in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.30 Build 096 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • New features:
  • "Generic driver" is a new and advanced feature which allows supervising any
  • SNMP or NUT enabled device.
  • Export nodes data into a CSV file.
  • Synchronization of NetworkMS card security settings (except passwords).
  • Compatibility with new Eaton UPSs: 9PX6KSP, 9PX8KSP, 9PX10KSP.
  • SNMPv3 support for IPM data acquisition.
  • Storage supervision (NETAPP, HP, SYNOLOGY, NETGEAR, QNAP, BUFFALO)
  • For NETAPP storage it is also possible to trigger graceful shutdown from IPM.
  • IPM administrator has the possibility to definitely delete the old events
  • from IPM database in order to reduce size and improve performance.
  • Bug fixed:
  • Value size restriction in shutdown timer and shutdown duration fields
  • 999999 max seconds).
  • Remove the Ascend/Descend sort capability for the "Messages" column in the
  • Events panel.
  • Update the battery icon in system tray, depending of the power source status.
  • Correct some labels in the mass configuration.
  • Uninstallation of the SCVMM component issues.
  • Icons display issues when using Windows Remote Desktop.
  • Reduce time to detect a communication lost in RS232 mode.
  • Event Calendar view issues.
  • Display the temperature on ePDU products.
  • Scan cancellation issue.
  • Nodes suppression issue.
  • Application crash on Debian, Fedora, Suse.
  • Communication lost detection issue for client.
  • Installation / Integration issues when Windows UAC is activated.
  • Known issues:
  • There may be temporary inconsistency between the display counter for all the nodes,
  • and the sum of nodes by status in the status bar after delete or discovery operations.

New in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.28 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows server 2012 compatibility
  • Microsoft SCVMM 2012 compatibility
  • VMware vCenter/ESXi 5.1 compatibility
  • Citrix XEN 6.0 compatibility
  • Bug fixed:
  • Removing vCenter plugin does not remove IPM tab in vCenter
  • Fix a crash when special network interfaces (vpn) under Linux are set.
  • Known issues:
  • With Microsoft SCVMM 2012 the communication can be lost in IPM when Virtual
  • Machine enters in maintenance mode
  • When Windows "User Account Control" (UAC) is enabled (since Vista), the
  • shortcuts from the system tray icon menu don’t work for the following links:
  • Start and Stop the Software. Please perform these actions from the Eaton
  • Windows "Start" menu.

New in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.27 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • Bug fixed:
  • Virtualization Module: When IPM was configured for the VMware HA Mode,
  • it didn't wait enough time after the shutdown of the VMs to shutdown
  • the ESXi servers
  • Known issues:
  • For IPM Virtual Appliance only, the statistics and the graph are not
  • available for the nodes. The graph panel is empty (no measures and no curves).
  • The statistics panel is not refreshed (no statistics displayed).

New in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.26 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Virtualization module improvements:
  • Adds the possibility to shutdown the VMware virtual machines from IPM even in VMware HA mode)
  • Package digital signature
  • Redundancy Behavior improvment: The Virtual Power Source (VPS) will NOT go to Battery mode when the First UPS does to battery Mode.
  • Bug fixed:
  • VMware vCenter connection issue (Occured when the username was entered
  • like Domain/Username in IPM and in vCenter active session the username was resolved as "username")
  • VMware ESX/ESXi shutdown issue (The shutdown initiated by IPM didn't force
  • the shutdown, the shutdown didn't work when the VMware ESX/ESXi was not in maintenance mode)
  • RS232) Random UPS ShutOff issue => Sometimes UPS was not shutting off when shutdown condition was reached.
  • Communication lost with Virtual Power Source when the Network-MS (or ModBus-MS)
  • was selected as power source (This bug appeared in IPM 1.25 version)
  • NMC Mass Upgrade issue when the card is in SSL mode is fixed on this release.
  • IPP Mass upgrade issue: the button update was always grey, so update launch was impossible
  • Known issues:
  • For IPM Virtual Appliance only, the statistics and the graph are not
  • available for the nodes. The graph panel is empty (no measures and no
  • curves). The statistics panel is not refreshed (no statistics displayed).

New in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.25 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • New feature:
  • IPM 1.25 can now "Mass Configure" and "Mass Upgrade" the Network card of the
  • new Eaton Advanced ePDU:
  • Europe = Switched (SW), Advanced Monitored (AM) and Managed (MA)
  • US= Advanced Monitored (AM) and Managed (MA))
  • VMware integration improvements:
  • Suppress the VMware Perl SDK prerequisite
  • vCenter Plug-in: Create more Alarms and Power Events in vCenter
  • Can now Add/Protect a Standalone ESX/ESXi in IPM without vCenter
  • XenServer integration (new)
  • Remote Shutdown from IPM
  • Remote Maintenance from IPM
  • Can Add/Protect a XenServer in IPM
  • XenCenter integration (new)
  • Create a XenCenter Plug-in from IPM
  • IPM is shown as a “Notified Application” in the NMC/Network-MS card when a
  • VMHost’s node has a UPS configured in IPM.
  • Known issues:
  • On Windows (XP x64 version only) the ePDU Network Card upgrade fails.
  • You have to do the upgrade from another Operating System.
  • To recover the card, you can also continue the upgrade from another Windows
  • Operating System than XP x64.
  • This issue occurs with ePDU bootloader 00.01.0007 (information available
  • from console menu).
  • This issue will be corrected on next ePDU bootloader version.
  • When the redundancy is activated on IPM to protect the computer, a
  • communication failure occurs after a few minutes when the power Source are
  • NMC 66102 or 66103 cards.
  • The protection is ineffective in this case.
  • The fix will be available in the next release of IPM.

New in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.20 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Implements a new UPS redundancy management feature (refer to user manual)
  • IPM 1.20 can supervise and discover the new Eaton Advanced ePDU:
  • Europe = Switched (SW), Advanced Monitored (AM) and Managed (MA)
  • US= Advanced Monitored (AM) and Managed (MA))
  • IPM 1.20 has been tuned for new 5PX UPSs supervision.
  • Improved system tray icon with contextual menu available through right click
  • Database log size has been optimised.
  • Statistics provide now device consumption in kWh instead of kVAh.
  • SNMP acquisition drivers have been optimised.
  • HP UPSs can be supervised (management feature is not supported)
  • Dell UPSs can be supervised (management feature is not supported)
  • IBM UPSs can be supervised (management feature is not supported)
  • When "Shutdown" feature is activated:
  • A UPS configuration panel appears in shutdown menu (Read only with network
  • Power Source and Read Write with serial line Power Source)
  • Shutdown controller feature is now compatible with Network card