Double check that the devices plugged into your UPS unit are plugged into the right electrical outlets. While the software is installing, we’d suggest a little bit of house keeping. Installation is a straight forward, click-to-accept-EULA and installation directory affair: no special configuration needed. The first order of business is installing the software. RELATED: Use Your UPS to Gracefully Shut Down Your PC During Power Outages

Even if you aren’t using CyberPower UPS units, however, we’d still encourage you to read along as we’ll be highlighting useful features that (while possibly deployed in a different menu or fashion) are found on most UPS units.

For other UPS companies, please refer to the manufacturer’s documentation. If you’re using a UPS from APC, you can refer to our guide on setting up their PowerChute software. The agent software turns your dumb battery backup into a smart battery backup that can communicate with your computer and coordinate activities: the most important of which is shutting down or hibernating gracefully when the battery is sufficiently depleted (but before there is a risk the shutdown will terminate prematurely and damage the computer).įor the purposes of this tutorial/feature overview, we’ll be installing CyberPower’s PowerPanel Personal Edition as we use CyberPower’s CP1500AVR units on our desktops and home server. That’s exactly what you don’t want to happen, as it simply delays the crash (in this example, 20 minutes) that would have occurred immediately sans the dumb battery support. Without the software, your computer will be completely unaware that the power interruption has occurred and will run right until the last second before it gets powered down hard when the battery runs out. Let’s say you bought a unit with enough juice to keep your computer running for 20 minutes after the power goes out. Without the agent software, your computer is essentially just plugged into a dumb battery. RELATED: How to Select an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for Your Computer You also need to configure the proper control/agent software to go with the battery unit so that your computer and the UPS unit can talk and ensure they’re coordinating their efforts to keep your system smooth and stable. Picking the right battery is only half the process, however. We showed you how to calculate your battery backup needs and pick the right size UPS for your computer.

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