Users Guide

Use case in Power Manager
Ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
1. Discover the devices in Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise. For more information, see OpenManage Enterprise User's Guide.
2. After discovering the devices, create static groups in Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise. For more information, see OpenManage
Enterprise User's Guide.
NOTE: Create static groups for Power Manager based on hierarchy such as data centers, rooms, aisle, racks,
chassis, and servers.
This section provides a standard scenario to help administrators to get started with Power Manager. Use Power Manager for monitoring,
viewing power and temperature data of devices for specific time slots by creating policies and setting thresholds.
1. Add OpenManage Enterprise Advanced license on iDRAC of target devices.
2. Add the supported devices or static groups to Power Manager.
NOTE: Only the devices that are supported by Power Manager are added as part of the group. For more information
about supported devices, see List of supported devices.
3. Configure all the setting Power Manager as per your data center specifications using the Power Manager Settings page.
After configuring Power Manager, perform the following tasks:
• View all the device or group metrics details related to Power Manager using Metrics and Monitoring History.
• Create and apply policies to regulate power consumption on devices or groups.
• During a power emergency, minimalize the power consumption using the Emergency Power Reduction feature.
• Generate alert thresholds through Power Manager by configuring the warning and critical values for target devices or groups.
• Run the built-in or customized reports to view more details of the devices or groups.
• To view the various categories of alerts that are generated by Power Manager see Alert Logs and Audit Logs.
• To quickly view history of few groups, add them to OpenManage Enterprise dashboard using widgets.
• To view top energy consumers, see OpenManage Enterprise dashboard using the widgets.
• To view the number of total devices compatible with Power Manager and total devices that are managed by Power Manager, see
Power Manager Devices Statistics graph on OpenManage Enterprise dashboard.
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