Users Guide

1 | P a g e N M C D e l l M 2 M p r o t o c o l ( X M L ) – 1 . 1
1. Description
The Dell UPS Management Card supports a M2M protocol that allows to ”Get” and or “Set”
several parameters.
The goal of this document is to describe how the parameters can be Read / Write. It also
provides a list of the objects that are currently implemented.
2. Web services descriptor
This file provides information about "Card" capabilities and resources location.
It's the first entry point of the "Card".
It is accessible from the URL: "http://<address>/product.xml"
This is a static file (not supposed to be dynamically changed).
Note that if the security configuration can be changed by the user through the Web interface.
This file is updated accordingly...
All information about the "Card" features are stored in this file as it is described in Appendix 1.
3. Configuration descriptor
The url http://IPaddress/configuration_descriptor.xml returns all the attributes of the parameter
which can be set.
Attribute Description
Name
The object name.
Unit
The object value unit (optional).
access
The object access type (optional).
RO = Read only (by default)
WO = Write once
RW = Read / Write access.
Value
The object value.
Restart
TRUE means that the card will restart automatically when the parameter will be
set
The Appendix 2 contains the complete: configuration_descriptor.xml