Dell PowerEdge UPS 500T User manual

Dell UPS Local Node Manager
USER'S GUIDE EXTENSION FOR XEN VIRTUALIZED ARCHITECTURE
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Dell ULNM - User guide extension - Xen Virtualized Architecture
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CHAPTER: Introduction
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Installing and configuring
Dell UPS Local Node Manager
On Xen Virtualized Architecture
Citrix XenServer 5.6
OpenSource Xen 2.6 on RHEL 5
OpenSource Xen 3.2 on Debian 5.0(Lenny)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................................... 3
2. Citrix Xen ......................................................................................................................................................... 4
2.1. Citrix XenServer configuration .......................................................................................................... 5
2.2. Prerequisites to install Dell ULNM on Citrix XenServer 5.6 x86 machine ......................................... 6
2.3. Dell ULNM installation ...................................................................................................................... 6
2.3.1. Hardware architecture ...................................................................................................................... 6
2.3.2. Network architecture ........................................................................................................................ 6
2.3.3. Installation......................................................................................................................................... 7
3. Xen on RHEL 5 and Debian 5.0 (Lenny) ........................................................................................................... 9
3.1. Xen Domain0 configuration ............................................................................................................ 10
3.2. Prerequisites to install Dell ULNM on Xen enabled on RHEL5/Debian 5.0 (Lenny) ........................ 10
3.3. Dell ULNM installation .................................................................................................................... 10
3.3.1. Hardware architecture .................................................................................................................... 10
3.3.2. Network architecture ...................................................................................................................... 11
4. Using Dell ULNM ........................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1. Step 1 (Access) ................................................................................................................................ 12
4.2. STEP 2 (Configuration)..................................................................................................................... 12
4.3. STEP 3 (OPERATION) ....................................................................................................................... 14
5. References..................................................................................................................................................... 15
6. Copyrights ..................................................................................................................................................... 16

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1. INTRODUCTION
Dell UPS Local Node Manager discovers and supervises Dell’s UPSs and ePDUs connected across a
network either by means of a card or proxy. It supervises the remote servers hosting the Dell UPS
Local Node Manager. It also provides local computer graceful shutdown. The Dell ULNM interface
can be accessed remotely using a web browser.
Our objective is to provide a virtualization support for Dell’s power protection software – Dell UPS
Local Node Manager. So, the purpose of this document is to understand the installation and
configuration of Dell ULNM on Xen virtualization environment.
This has been tested upon different Xen environments. For more information, refer appendix A.

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CHAPTER: Citrix Xen
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2. CITRIX XEN
Citrix XenServer Architecture
Dell UPS
Network
Citrix XenCenter
Memory
Memory
Network
CPU
Hardware Layer
Xen
Hypervisor
Dell UPS Local Node
Manager
Domain1
Guest
Domain2
Guest
Domain3
Guest
Domain0
Guest
Citrix XenServer
USB

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2.1. CITRIX XENSERVER CONFIGURATION
Before installing Dell ULNM on Citrix XenServer host, following configurations have to be made:
Hardware support for virtualization must be enabled on the Host. This is an option in the
BIOS. It is possible your BIOS might have virtualization support disabled. Consult your BIOS
documentation for more details.
For automatic OS boot on startup, you must configure the physical machine to do the same.
This setting is present in BIOS. For further information, see specific technical hardware
documentation.
In XenServer, to allow virtual machines to function properly, it is recommended that PV Tools
(XenTools) should be installed on each virtual machine. For further information, see the
appropriate XenServer Installation guide.
XenCenter is an administrative console which monitors and manages XenServer hosts and guest
machines. To make every virtual machine start automatically, select the check box (it is located in
properties of every virtual machine) in XenCenter for the option “Allow virtual machines to start and
stop automatically with the system”.

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2.2. PREREQUISITES TO INSTALL DELL ULNM ON CITRIX XENSERVER 5.6 X86
MACHINE
1. XenServer host having 5 MB free space.
2. Dell ULNM installation packages on XenServer
Notes:
XenServer and XenCenter should be of same version. For compatibility issues, refer
XenServer installation guide
To allow a graceful shutdown of the Virtual machines, you have to install PV Tools (XenTools)
on each virtual machine.
In case of resource pools, if the slave machine goes down, then master machine will continue
functioning. But if we shutdown master machine, all the guest machine in that pool will go
down and the pool will be out of action until master is rebooted.
2.3. DELL ULNM INSTALLATION
2.3.1. HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE
The prerequisites for Dell UPS Local Node Manager installation are described in the "Dell UPS Local
Node Manager –User Guide" document, in chapter: “Installation Prerequisites“.
(http://dellups.com/). For UPS systems compatibility, please refer to the chapter “Appendix ->
Compatibility List” in this document.
2.3.2. NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
All hardware elements must have an operational network configuration that allows them to
communicate freely with each other.
Please make sure that the following TCP/UDP ports are enabled on XenSever Firewall:
Connections on tcp port 4679 and 4680 to enable a remote access for supervision and
configuration through Web Browser. These ports are reserved at IANA
(http://www.iana.org/).
Connections through TCP port 80. It must be opened as a destination port (for output) on the
machine hosting Intelligent Power Protector.

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Configuration to enable communication between Dell UPS Local Node Manager and Dell NMC
(Network Management Card)
Configuration to enable communication between Intelligent Power Protector and Connect UPS
BD/XSlot/PXGX2000:
2.3.3. INSTALLATION
Download the latest version of Dell UPS Local Node Manager for Linux from Dell website.
During installation of this package on host, it will automatically detect Linux Server.
Download the latest version of Dell UPS Local Node Manager, available on Dell’s website, in
downloads section:
See http://dellups.com/
Then:
> select “Network solution”.
> select “Linux” as Operating System
Download Dell UPS Local Node Manager v1.00, rpm Software Installer x86 « ulnm-linux-
x_xx_xxx-i386.rpm ».
Upload the package on your Xen environment
iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 4679 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 4680 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 2844 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 2845 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p udp --dport 2844 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p udp --dport 2845 -j ACCEPT
service iptables save
iptables-save
iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 4679 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 4680 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 4679 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 4680 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p udp --dport 4679 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p udp --dport 4680 -j ACCEPT
service iptables save
iptables-save
service iptables save

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To install Dell ULNM package:
-Install Dell UPS Local Node Manager rpm package on XenServer by following command:
-For silent installation process, please refer to Dell UPS Local Node Manager User Guide.
At the end, connect to Dell UPS Local Node Manager using your web browser by typing :
-http://<@IP-or-name-of-XenServer>:4679 (For a HTTP access)
-https://<@ IP-or-name-of-XenServer>:4680 (For a HTTPS access)
Now Dell UPS Local Node Manager interface will be displayed.
rpm –i ulnm-linux-x_xx_xxx-i386.rpm

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3. XEN ON RHEL 5 AND DEBIAN 5.0 (LENNY)
Xen Architecture on RHEL 5 on Debian 5.0
Dell UPS
Network
SSH Client
Memory
Memory
Network
CPU
Hardware Layer
RHEL or Debian
+ Xen Hypervisor
Dell UPS Local
Node Manager
Domain1
Guest
Domain2
Guest
Domain3
Guest
Domain0
Guest
Xen Hypervisor on Linux
(RHEL/Debian)
USB/
Serial
(Debian)

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3.1. XEN DOMAIN0 CONFIGURATION
Before installing Dell ULNM on RHEL/Debian Lenny where Xen Domain0 is enabled, the following
configurations have to be made:
Hardware support for virtualization must be enabled on the host. This is an option in the
BIOS. It is possible your BIOS might have virtualization support disabled. Consult your BIOS
documentation for more details.
For automatic OS boot on startup, you must configure the physical machine to do the same.
This setting is present in BIOS. For further information, see specific technical hardware
documentation.
In order to allow windows virtual machines to function properly, it is recommended that GPL
Para virtualized (PV) drivers should be installed on each windows virtual machine.
3.2. PREREQUISITES TO INSTALL DELL ULNM ON XEN ENABLED ON RHEL5/D EBIAN 5.0
(LENNY)
1. Xen hypervisor (on RHEL/Debian) having minimum 5 MB free space.
2. Dell ULNM installation packages on RHEL/Debian.
Notes:
1. To allow a graceful shutdown of guest virtual machines, you have to install GPL PV drivers
on each virtual machine.
2. UPSs through RS232 connectivity will not be supported on RHEL5 as serial ports are used by
Xen.
3.3. DELL ULNM INSTALLATION
3.3.1. HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE
The prerequisites for Dell UPS Local Node Manager installation are described in the "Dell UPS Local
Node Manager –User Guide" document, in chapter: “Installation Prerequisites“.
(http://dellups.com/)
For UPS systems compatibility, please refer to the chapter “Appendix -> Compatibility List”

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3.3.2. NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
All hardware elements must have an operational network configuration that allows them to
communicate freely with each other.
Please make sure that the following TCP/UDP ports are enabled on XenSever/Xen hypervisor Firewall
Connections on tcp port 4679 and 4680 to enable a remote access for supervision and
configuration through Web Browser. These ports are reserved at IANA
(http://www.iana.org).
Connections through TCP port 80. It must be opened as a destination port (for output) on the
machine hosting Intelligent Power Protector.
Configuration to enable communication between Intelligent Power Protector and NMC (Network
Management Card)
Configuration to enable communication between Intelligent Power Protector and Connect UPS
BD/XSlot/PXGX2000:
iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 4679 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 4680 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 2844 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 2845 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p udp --dport 2844 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p udp --dport 2845 -j ACCEPT
service iptables save
iptables-save
iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 4679 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 4680 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 4679 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 4680 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p udp --dport 4679 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p udp --dport 4680 -j ACCEPT
service iptables save
iptables-save
service iptables save

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CHAPTER: Using Dell ULNM
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4. USING DELL ULNM
After Dell ULNM installation, follow these 3 steps to use Dell ULNM or refer to the Dell ULNM User
guide.
4.1. STEP 1 (ACCESS)
Remote access (for XenServer)
From a remote machine, you can type the following URL in a Web browser
https://<name or IP address of Server hosting Dell ULNM>:4680/
or
http://<name or IP address of Server hosting Dell ULNM>:4679/
In SSL mode, accept the certificate (by clicking on Yes)
(enter admin as Login / admin as Password and click on the Login button)
4.2. STEP 2 (CONFIGURATION)
When started, the application automatically performs a Quick scan.
Using the Quick scan operation, you will discover:
=>Serial line connected UPSs (RS232 or USB)
The discovered UPS connected through (RS232 or USB) is automatically assigned as the
Power source (the Status icon is Green )
=> Networked UPSs through broadcast within a few seconds (Dell Network Management
Card H910P)

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The discovered UPS connected through (Network) are not automatically assigned as the
Power source (You have to select the node and click on the button Set as Power Source the
icon becomes Green )
The discovered nodes are displayed in Settings  Auto Discovery
For the other nodes, please perform the discovery based on IP address ranges (Range scan)
Using the Range Scan operation you will discover the nodes that are outside of the Network
segment and nodes that are not compatible with the ”Quick scan” feature.
In the Settings  Shutdown page, assign the IP address of the UPS that powers the local Computer.
In the Settings  User List page, assign the access rights through “login and password”

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4.3. STEP 3 (OPERATION)
The Views  Power Source menu item (optional) allows you to supervise the current state of the
UPS that powers the server running Dell UPS Local Node Manager
The Events  Event List view allows you to view the device events:

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5. REFERENCES
http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/WhatisXen.pdf
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-xenserver-5.5.0
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/4.0.1/reference/ch05s04.html

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6. COPYRIGHTS
VMware is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc. Xen®, XenSource™, XenEnterprise™, XenServer™,
XenExpress™, XenCenter™ and logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of XenSource,
Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.
All other company or product names are used for informational purposes only and may be
trademarks are property of their respective owners.