Users Guide

292 Sensors
Power Supplies Probes
The power supplies probes provides information on:
• status of the power supplies, whether within the normal threshold value or
has crossed threshold value.
NOTE: You can set threshold values only from the Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator. See the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator User’s Guide
for more information.
• power supply redundancy, that is, the ability of the redundant power
supply to replace the primary power supply if the primary power supply
fails.
NOTE: If there is only one power supply in the system, the Power Supply
Redundancy section will not display.
Hardware Performance Probes
The hardware performance sensor provides status of the performance of your
central processing unit (CPU), whether degraded or normal. The status of the
hardware performance sensors is degraded when the CPU is in throttled state.
Power Monitoring Probes
Power monitoring provides information about the real time consumption of
power, in watts and amperes. This information is provided to the DRAC 5
through the baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware sensors.
NOTE: This feature is supported only on limited Dell PowerEdge x9xx and xx0x
systems.
DRAC 5 provides advanced power monitoring features. This includes:
• Graphical representation of the system power level in Watts and power
supplies in Amperes over a time period.
• Maximum, minimum, and average power consumption statistics for the
system in Watts and BTU/Hr (British Thermal Unit per Hour) over the
last 1 hour, 1 day, and 1 week from the current DRAC time as a graph.
• Power consumed by the system in Watts and the average current
consumed by each power supply in Amperes.