PowerChute Personal Edition
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 Personal Edition, compatible with Back-UPS models.
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 for IT Professionals.
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?
There are 3 versions of PowerChute which correspond with your APC UPS(s).
PowerChute Business Edition
Ensure your small and medium business is protected and be prepared for unexpected power disturbances with PowerChute Business Edition, compatible with Smart-UPS models.
PowerChute 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.
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?
Personal Edition
Connect the APC USB cable to your PC’s USB port. Then download the software directly onto your computer, this will only take a few minutes. From there, the software will recognize the battery backup and connected devices. Follow the user guide for installation instructions.
Business Edition
Download PowerChute directly onto your PC, then view and monitor multiple Smart-UPS using SNMP over the network; any 3rd party Network Management System (NMS). Make device information available to your preferred enterprise management system by forwarding SNMP events across SNMPv1 and SNMPv3 using PowerNet MB.
Network Shutdown
PCNS works in conjunction with the APC 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 PCNS. PowerChute needs to run on a separate Windows/Linux/other server to control the system.
Back-UPS Mac OS User?
Mac OS is not a supported operating system for PowerChute Personal Edition. Energy management features and scheduled shutdown are Mac OS native features.