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    Disaster Avoidance Software - IPM

    Intelligent Power Manager (IPM), Eaton's disaster avoidance software provides monitoring and management of power equipment in physical or virtual environments to keep IT devices running during a power or environmental event. This innovative software solution ensures system uptime and data integrity by allowing you to remotely monitor, manage and control devices on your network. Choose from three levels of licences: Monitor, Manage and Optimise.
    Free 60-day IPM Optimize Trial

Get control of your distributed IT assets

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

Our Disaster Avoidance software, also known as Intelligent Power Manager (IPM), 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.  

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

Discover the top benefits of Eaton's Disaster Avoidance software in this short video

“With a single pane of glass, we can monitor power outputs, which we couldn’t do before. That battery backup is the key to our data center decisions related to equipment purchases. It’s helped us to determine how many power supplies to need and which servers are better for power consumption.” 

 

Read IPM success story.

Joseph Daniels, Chief Information Officer, Illinois State Treasurer

IPM capabilities

Visualisation
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 minimising 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

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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IPM integrates with industry-leading IT management systems

Eaton is the leader in virtualised 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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Choose from three levels of licensing options

IPM capabilities vary based on the level of licensing chosen. For users looking to manage and monitor up to ten IT and power devices, IPM Manage is ideal. For those looking to take advantage of IPM's most advanced functionalities, Eaton offers a 60-day trial of IPM Optimize. 

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Features  Monitor  Manage 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
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Event-based automation
 		  

Virtualized host shutdown
  

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Power capping of compatible servers
  
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How IPM protects remote sites
  • Minimizes latency – in many cases latency is intolerable
  • Reduces bandwidth – sending big data from remote sites to on premise data centers consumes enormous bandwidth and cost
  • Improves reliability – retries, drops and missed connections avoided
  • Maintains compliance – personal data remains local 
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How IPM shuts down VxRail
  • UPS detects power or environmental event
  • IPM Automation begins
  • Users set IPM to shutdown user VMs in individually or grouped in order set by user
  • IPM shuts itself down, transfers remaining commands to UPS NIC
  • UPS NIC finishes shutdown of system and management VMS
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Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power ─ today and well into the future. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we’re accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy and helping to solve the world’s most urgent power management challenges.
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