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