APC Battery Management System manual Ping utility control console

Battery Management System

USER’S GUIDE

®

•Enable or disable Reverse DNS Lookup. This feature is disabled by default. Enabling this feature is the recommended configuration, unless you have no DNS server configured or have poor network performance because of heavy network traffic. With Reverse DNS Lookup enabled, when a network-related event occurs, reverse DNS lookup logs both the IP address and the domain name for the networked device associated with the event in the event log. If no domain name entry exists for the device, only its IP address is logged with the event. Since domain names generally change much less frequently than IP addresses, enabling reverse DNS lookup can improve the ability to identify addresses of networked devices that are causing events to occur.

Ping utility (control console)

Select this option, available only in the control console, to check the Battery Management System’s network connection by testing whether a defined IP address or domain name responds to the Ping network utility. By default, the default gateway IP address (see TCP/IP) is used. However, you can use the IP address or domain name of any device known to be running on the network.

38