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Power management software

Eaton Disaster Avoidance software

Unplanned downtime is costly for all organizations. It typically results in a financial loss and can negatively impact reputation.

Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) software helps small and medium businesses—typically with fewer than 25* uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) and/or power distribution units (PDUs)—monitor, manage and control power equipment in physical or virtual environments, enabling you to keep IT devices running during a power or environmental events.

*Our Distributed IT Performance Management software, part of the Brightlayer Data Centers suite, can monitor and manage power equipment in distributed IT environments with more than 25 UPSs and/or UPSs.  

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Achieve more with less
Reduce capital expenses
Maintain business continuity
Minimize operating expenses
Protect remote sites
Automate business continuity at the edge

Discover the top benefits of IPM in this short video

IPM capabilities

Visualization
Contextual visibility of power metrics and constraints
Automation
Simple wizard-based automation configuration
Vendor-neutral
Monitor Eaton and third party power devices
Intelligent load shedding
Increase system uptime while extending battery runtime and minimizing generator load by suspending non-critical virtual machines
Site recovery manager failover
Reduce data recovery expenses by synching primary and disaster recovery sites prior to power failures
Power capping on demand
Keep critical workloads running longer during a power outage by limiting server power consumption
Graceful shutdown within clusters
Host IPM within your cluster to avoid needing additional IT equipment for your power management software
Complex system protection
Configure IPM to gracefully shutdown all your IT equipment in the order required to assure safe and quick recovery from power or environmental outages
Automated protection
IT personnel not required on site; remote sites can be set up and managed from a central location
Specifications

IPM integrates with industry leading IT management systems

Eaton is the leader in virtualized power management and differentiates itself by having over 500 hours invested in validation testing with our network of alliance partners. Focused on building our integration and alliance partnerships, we’ve done the heavy lifting by validating our power management offering on the industry’s leading IT platforms to increase efficiency and reliability. Eaton’s relationships with partners like VMware, Cisco, NetApp, Dell, HPE, Nutanix and Scale Computing provide added value by extending the availability of your IT infrastructures.
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Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) offers three levels of licenses: Monitor, Manage and Optimize. IPM Optimize is the premium offering and provides the most complete set of capabilities. Perpetual and subscription pricing tiers are available; see link below for details.

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Features IPM Monitor IPM Manage IPM Optimize

Maximum monitored devices supported

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Monitor third-party devices

List-based asset catalog
 

Virtual appliance
 
Microsoft™ Active Directory integration
SUpports LDAP authentication
Power aggregation through power chain
2D rack view
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Event-based automation
 		  

Virtualized host shutdown
  

Gracefully shutdown compatible storage

  

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Power capping of compatible servers
  
Cluster shutdown with IPM in cluster
    

Shut down VxRail, Nutanix, vSAN VMware HA

    

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Targeted virtual machine graceful shutdown    
Trigger actions from third-party devices    
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Need to gracefully shutdown VxRail?

With IPM, you can enable automated and graceful shutdown of VxRail clusters experiencing unplanned, extended power events and protect data from cybersecurity breaches.

Learn how

Looking for the latest version of IPM?

Get step-by-step instructions on how to download the latest version of the software.

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