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Table Of Contents
- 1 Creating physical groups
- 2 Editing physical groups
- 3 Adding devices in physical groups
- 4 Creating physical group through CSV file
- 5 Reorganizing devices in physical groups
- 6 Removing devices from physical groups
- 7 Visualizing Headroom and Underutilized Racks
- 8 Visualizing racks of physical groups
- 9 Deleting physical groups
- 10 Physical group reports
- 11 Conclusion
- 12 Technical support and resources
Creating physical group through CSV file
28 Managing physical grouping of infrastructure devices in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
4 Creating physical group through CSV file
This section is about how to create a physical hierarchy by importing a pre-populated CSV file. Creating
numerous groups and adding devices to the physical groups is a time-consuming process for an existing
data center using the User Interface. Hence, it is helpful for automating the group creation process for a
medium to large scale datacenters. You can replicate the data center structure in a CSV file and import
this file in Power Manager to create the physical hierarchy and add the devices to the groups. Also, you
can re-import the CSV file when the group is updated to reflect the latest datacenter structure.
Consider the following points before creating and importing the CSV file:
• Only Administrators can import the CSV files.
• OME or PMP can check that the devices mentioned in the .csv are prediscovered in OME.
Ensure that the physical group you are creating adheres to the hierarchy as follows:
Physical group supported hierarchies
Physical group
Supported hierarchies
Data Center
Room, Aisle, Rack
Room
Aisle, Rack
Aisle
Rack
Rack
NA
• When creating a rack in a physical group, ensure that you provide the rack name, power capacity,
and space capacity.
• Each physical group and their siblings in a physical group hierarchy are identified by a unique
name.
• To add a device in a physical group:
- Ensure that only one device details are entered in each row. A device is identified by a unique
identifier. Because the identical devices are ignored while importing, and only the devices with
unique identifiers are added in a rack slot.
- To place the device in a particular slot, ensure that you provide the rack slot information.
• When you are considering multiple device allocations on the same physical group hierarchy, you
can duplicate the fields. However, only the rack slot and device identifier are the unique fields.
• View details about the import job by selecting the Physical Group CSV Import Task job on the
Jobs page. You can view the status about each row added in the file on the Execution Details
page.
4.1 Sample CSV File
The following image is an example of the supported format of a CSV file:
Sample CSV file format
The following table lists all the field names of the CSV file and their descriptions: