User manual BELKIN BULLDOG PLUS

[. . . ] Belkin Bulldog Plus Shutdown Management Software for Windows User' Manual s Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of Bulldog Plus to manage your Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). Bulldog Plus is designed to provide end users the ability to take proactive steps to protect their equipment from power related damages. Bulldog Plus allows for automatic shutdowns, scheduled shutdowns and a variety of other features that help you manage your system and its peripheral components. Bulldog Plus provides detailed information about the UPS and its protected equipment. [. . . ] Please look at the back panel carefully, some outlets may share one control relay, these outlets are called an outlet group. If you turn off the outlet group (for example: outlet1 and outlet2) then the UPS will stop power to the outlet group outlet1and outlet2. Device Name: Assigns the attached devices a name, for example: Outlet Group1 is called Monitor for association with the monitor and Outlet Group2 is called Computer for association with the CPU. Don't forget to press Belkin Components 20 the Update button. Maximum Event Log Entries: Always Bulldog Plus to preserve less than the assigned entries of event log. Data Log Interval: Time designated for automatic saving of a record of UPS data. Maximum Data Log Storage: It allows you to save how many months UPS data files you wish to keep. Schedule This function allows you to shutdown, restart, test and turn on/off outlets. Settings are based on day, week or month and up to a period of 2 years. Monthly: This set schedule is applicable for once a month period. Action Belkin Components 21 The action menu provides you with a list of events to choose from. The event and/or any combination of these actions can be selected from the Choose Event list box. To delay the actions, set the desired time for delay in the Delay combo box. a. Enable Auto-Save: Bulldog Plus will save opened files and close applications automatically when you enable this function. Choose Event: When you select one item in the list the action buttons will display current settings. Delay: The power event must stay within the delay time to trigger actions. Action - Shutdown: Shutdown/Hibernate/Suspend the operating system or shutdown UPS. If you select the shutdown item Bulldog Plus will execute or ignore the Auto-Save function depending on your selection in the Action dialog box. But if you select the "suspend" or "hibernate" item, the program will ignore the Auto-Save function. The action of "shutdown", "hibernate" or "suspend" are the same as if you select the Shutdown Option from the Windows Start menu. Action - Logging: Allows you to log events as well as modify the default Belkin Components 22 logging message. Action - Broadcasting: Permits you to broadcast an event based on a set period of time. If you want to be notified once, set the time period to "0". [. . . ] Select Month: Displays the UPS data in the month, which you want to see. Save As: Saves the data in the list format to the file that you assigned. Auto Save When certain power events occur, Bulldog Plus will save open files and close applications before shutting down the operating system. If these saved files are untitled, Bulldog Plus will assign file names for them and Belkin Components 35 put the files in temporary directory. [. . . ]