Users Guide

Maintaining Power Manager
Manage the plugin and the devices and groups added to Power Manager along with managing the alerts and thresholds.
Topics:
• Managing Power Manager plugin
• Managing individual devices and static groups
• Managing physical groups
• Maintaining alert thresholds
• Maintaining policies
• Managing unmonitored devices
Managing Power Manager plugin
Disable or enable the Power Manager plugin to monitor your devices for power and temperature.
Disabling Power Manager
Disables all the functionality of Power Manager on OpenManage Enterprise. The REST APIs specific to Power Manager are also
disabled.
Prerequisites
Ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
● The Emergency Power Reduction (EPR) is not enabled on the device. View the EPR status of all devices and groups on the
Emergency Power Reduction page.
● There are no active policies.
About this task
NOTE: Disabling a plugin in OpenManage Enterprise restarts the appliance services.
Steps
1. Launch OpenManage Enterprise.
2. If you are using OpenManage Enterprise version 3.4 or earlier, in Application Settings, click Console and Extensions.
The Console and extensions page is displayed.
If you are using OpenManage Enterprise version 3.5, in Application Settings, click Console and Plugins.
The Console and plugins page is displayed.
3. In the Power Manager section, click the Disable option.
The Disable page is displayed.
4. If you are using OpenManage Enterprise version 3.4 or earlier, click Enable Extension.
If you are using OpenManage Enterprise version 3.5, click Enable Plugin.
The Confirmation page is displayed.
5. On the Confirmation page, select the I agree that I have captured the snapshot of the OM Enterprise appliance
prior to the upgrade option, and then click Confirm Disable.
Information about the number of users using OpenManage Enterprise and details about the jobs running are displayed.
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