PowerPanel Personal

PowerPanel Personal is a lightweight software application designed specifically for helping you control and monitor your CyberPower UPS, while offering support for runtime management and tests.

User-friendly layout

You can find the program sitting quietly in the system tray. A right-click on its icon gives you the possibility to open the primary panel, check out the current status or summary, or configure several parameters.
You are welcomed by a clean feature lineup that reveals information about the power source (it indicates if CyberPower UPS is providing AC utility power or internal battery power), battery capacity (it reveals the current state of the internal battery), and estimated runtime (expected runtime based on current battery capacity).

Monitoring options

PowerPanel Personal gives you the possibility to check out details about your current status, namely electrical power, voltage, power condition, remaining battery capacity, battery status, as well as remaining battery runtime.
The Summary panel provides information about the nature of the most recent power event, number of times adverse power conditions were experienced and cumulative duration of the events. Additionally, you may filter the information by one, four, twelve or twenty-four weeks.
System tray notifications appear when your UPS experiences a power lost and unit’s AC power is restored to normal.

Configuration settings

PowerPanel Personal helps you turn on sound notifications upon various power events via your computer’s speakers or Internet speaker in CyberPower.
When it comes to runtime configuration, you can make the application keep the computer running and shut it down when remaining battery runtime corresponds to a user-defined time value (in minutes) or preserve battery power and turn off the computer after UPS runs on battery power for a custom time.
Last but not least, you can make the UPS intervene when AC utility voltage goes below or above a custom value and carry out a test in order to ensure your UPS is working correctly. In addition, you may view information about the date the test was last performed and result of the most recent test.

Bottom line

All in all, PowerPanel Personal offers a straightforward solution for helping you control and monitor your UPC easily, and is suitable especially for rookies. If you are looking for advanced features, such as remote management and configuration of UPS via web browser, multiple alert notifications (email, Windows Messenger and XMPP) and scheduled tasks, you can check out the Business edition of the utility, which can be found here.