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3 Managing physical grouping of infrastructure devices in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
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Revisions ....................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Acknowledgments.......................................................................................................................................................... 2
Table of contents ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
Acronyms ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Executive summary ....................................................................................................................................................... 6
1 Creating physical groups......................................................................................................................................... 7
1.1 Supported physical group hierarchies ........................................................................................................... 7
1.2 Physical group hierarchy attributes ............................................................................................................... 7
1.3 Physical group hierarchy menu ..................................................................................................................... 8
1.4 Creating datacenter physical group .............................................................................................................. 9
1.5 Creating Room physical group ...................................................................................................................... 9
1.6 Creating Aisle physical group ...................................................................................................................... 10
1.7 Creating Rack physical group ..................................................................................................................... 11
2 Editing physical groups ......................................................................................................................................... 12
3 Adding devices in physical groups ........................................................................................................................ 14
3.1 Adding a discovered server or chassis in a rack ......................................................................................... 15
3.2 Adding a discovered storage, network, or non-Dell device in a rack .......................................................... 16
3.2.1 Specifying device unit size and estimated power ....................................................................................... 16
3.2.2 Adding device to a rack ............................................................................................................................... 18
3.3 Adding an unmonitored device in a rack ..................................................................................................... 19
3.3.1 Creating unmonitored devices .................................................................................................................... 20
3.3.2 Viewing unmonitored devices ..................................................................................................................... 21
3.3.3 Editing unmonitored devices ....................................................................................................................... 22
3.3.4 Deleting unmonitored devices ..................................................................................................................... 23
3.3.5 Adding unmonitored device to a rack .......................................................................................................... 23
3.4 Associating a discovered PDU with a rack.................................................................................................. 25
4 Creating physical group through CSV file ............................................................................................................. 28
4.1 Sample CSV File ......................................................................................................................................... 28
4.2 Importing physical hierarchy from CSV file ................................................................................................. 29
5 Reorganizing devices in physical groups .............................................................................................................. 30
5.1 Moving devices within a rack ...................................................................................................................... 30
5.2 Moving devices across racks ...................................................................................................................... 31
6 Removing devices from physical groups .............................................................................................................. 33
6.1 Removing a device from a rack ................................................................................................................... 33
6.2 Disassociating a PDU from a rack .............................................................................................................. 34
7 Visualizing Headroom and Underutilized Racks ................................................................................................... 35
7.1 Visualizing power and space headroom in Group Details .......................................................................... 35