After a bit of searching, I found the following forum thread - https://community.se.com/t5/APC-UPS-Data-Center-Enterprise/Unable-to-factory... After a bit of reading, I distilled the following – With the APC AP9617 card installed in the UPS. Power on the UPS. (Also, you can install the AP9617 into a powered-on/running UPS) Using an APC 940-1524 or APC 940-1524c serial cable, connect a computer with a serial port running a terminal emulation program to the serial port on the UPS. (A ‘regular/standard’ serial will not work,it will probably just cause the UPS to reset or shutdown or exhibit some other unwanted behavior.) :-( IF you want to try to ‘roll your own’ 940-1524c ‘look-alike’ serial cable, I found the following website with diagrams – https://networkupstools.org/cables.html Set the terminal program to 2400-8-N-1 and press ENTER several times – you should see a ‘logon’ prompt. If not, try 9600-8-N-1 or other combinations until you have a response. Once you have communication with the UPS - 1) Press the reset button on the AP9617 2) Wait about 1 second until the status LEDs flash repeatedly amber/green 3) Press the reset button again (at this point the card re-cycles, turns off and turns back on) 4) In the terminal program, press the ENTER key repeatedly until you get the ‘logon’ prompt 5) ID/PW 'should be' - apc/apc Once this works - you should be able to set the network parameters as desired from the serial connection and then be able to continue management via ethernet. Hope this helps -- --Rick-- On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 3:19 PM Jameel akari via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I would try to re-configure via the UPS’s serial port first. Default username and password are usually apc / apc . -- Jameel Akari
On Jan 14, 2024, at 12:48 PM, William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
You should, in theory, be able to run "arp -n" on a machine on the same lan segment to get a table of IP vs MAC for all the machines that have said anything on that lan segment.
Taken from a box on my network:
arp -n Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface 192.168.27.201 ether 34:23:87:d2:48:1f C eth0 192.168.27.216 ether 00:01:c0:03:51:be C eth0 192.168.27.72 ether 84:0d:8e:8c:e3:14 C eth0 192.168.27.26 ether e8:40:f2:ac:45:64 C eth0 192.168.27.133 ether 3c:71:bf:26:64:55 C eth0
Bill Dudley
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 12:06 PM Martin A. Flynn via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Will be deploying multiple AP9617 UPS network cards at ISEC (the dish antenna site up the road) as wrap-up items on the bucket list
They are currently set to an unknown static IP. If necessary, can wire shark the Ethernet connection and pick up the IP address using the MAC that is on the card itself.
Anyone have a reset procedure that actually works?
Martin