Introduction

The Eaton Gigabit Network Card (Network-M2) is Eaton's latest UPS connectivity device that delivers IT professionals with new and exciting capabilities and features. The first UPS connectivity device to meet both UL 2900-1 and IEC 62443-4-2 cybersecurity standards, the Gigabit Network Card improves power system reliability by providing warnings of pending issues to administrators and helping to perform orderly graceful shutdown of servers and storage. The new network card works with Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) v1.61 (and higher) to improve business continuity by triggering policies configured to keep mission critical applications running in the event of power or environmental anomalies, including virtual machine relocation or automated disaster recovery action