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Adding devices in physical groups
15 Managing physical grouping of infrastructure devices in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
Consider the following before managing the devices in a physical group:
• Add the size of the unmonitored device that you plan to add to a physical group.
• Emergency Power Reduction (EPR) is not enabled on the group.
• The rack slot option is available for the following types of devices:
- Chassis
- Rack servers
- Storage
- Network switches
- Unmonitored devices.
• Physical groups are automatically added to Power Manager and devices in the physical group are
also added as individual to working set, if they have the valid licenses.
3.1 Adding a discovered server or chassis in a rack
A discovered Dell server or chassis can be added to a rack without any additional steps. After the devices
are added to physical groups, they are part of Power Manager's monitoring list. Hence, it is not
recommended to update unit size of these devices as the same is fetched from the device during
discovery process. Power Manager automatically starts monitoring various metrics from the ones meeting
the criteria that are added to a rack.
1. Click PLUGIN GROUPS > Physical Hierarchy > Rack > Manage Rack
2. To add devices discovered in OpenManage Enterprise, click Add to Rack Slot. The Add
Device(s) To Rack Slots wizard is displayed.
3. In the Select Device(s) section, select the devices and click Next.
Add to Rack Slot – Select Device(s)
The API to view the rack capable devices is:
https://<IP>/api/PowerService/PhysicalGroups/CapableDevices
For more information about the Power Manager APIs, see the OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
API document available on the support site.