Monday, February 29, 2016

Tripplite SNMP Web Card: "Looking for a PowerAlert engine at" IP Address

The quotes is an SEO grab to boost page views on a site I don't have ads on:


This error even shows up in the official manual [PDF page 4] but says nothing about it:


So... this is on the WEB CONSOLE, I am typing in the IP address to get to the web console, and the web card is serving up the page, but still give this cryptic error!  The fix?  Factory reset your SNMP Web CardDon't use IE11, use Java 7, Don't use windows 10.

Try this fix released by tripplite [PDF]: https://www.tripplite.com/shared/literature/Flyer/Java-Runtime-Environment-v8-Update-71-Alert.pdf

And buy APC.