Communications Settings

PowerChute Access

HTTPS is enabled by default and provides secure access to the PowerChute user interface. You may change the Protocol to HTTP (unencrypted) and this will come into effect after you restart the PowerChute service. For more information, please see Application Note “PowerChute Network Shutdown Security Features Overview” here.

PowerChute Security

The Username and Authentication Phrase are used to authenticate communications between PowerChute and the NMC. Therefore, you must set these values to be the same in both PowerChute and the NMC.

The maximum number of characters for the user name is 10.
The authentication phrase must be 15 to 32 ASCII characters.
The password specified here is unique to PowerChute. The password requires:

Minimum 8 and maximum 128 characters in length
One upper and lower case letter
One number and special character
The username also cannot be part of the password.

Changes to the Username, Password and Authentication Phrase are logged to the event log. For more information see Non-Configurable Events.

If you forget your password, see Resetting your PowerChute username or password.

If PowerChute is registered with more than one NMC, they should all use the same administrator user name and authentication phrase.

Click the Check Details button on the Communications Settings page to validate that the PowerChute settings are the same as the NMC(s).