Technical Whitepaper Usage of Reports in Data Center through Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager Abstract This technical white paper provides information about the best practices that you can follow using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager reports generated through OpenManage Enterprise to optimize the usage of Dell EMC servers and chassis.
Revisions Revisions Date Description July 2020 Initial release with OpenManage Enterprise 3.4 and Power Manager 1.2 Acknowledgements Author(s) Sukumar Mallik, Test Engineer 2, Enterprise Software Validation Support Mahendran P, Test Senior Engineer, Enterprise Software Validation Shruthi Ravoor, Technical Content Developer 2 The information in this publication is provided “as is.” Dell Inc.
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Acronyms Acronyms 4 Acronym Expansion OME OpenManage Enterprise GUI Graphical User Interface Usage of Reports in Data Center through Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
Executive summary Executive summary This technical whitepaper provides an overview about power and thermal reports of Power Manager 1.2 deployed on OpenManage Enterprise 3.4.0. The report contains power and thermal data that is used to assess the power consumption and thermal emission of devices over a time period and thus helps administrators to take proper actions in reducing the power consumption in the devices using Power Manager features. OpenManage Enterprise 3.4.
Introduction 1. Introduction This white paper illustrates several examples and provides complete steps on how to gain maximum benefit of reports using Power Manager. Also, the white paper describes the report actions in OpenManage Enterprise and provides information on how the IT administrators can leverage them. 1.
Types of Report 2 Types of Report There are mainly below two types of reports: • • 2.1 Built-In Report Custom Report Built-In Report These reports are by default displayed after installing the Power Manager. This report contains predefined parameters that give data over a certain time interval. Below are the types of Power Manager built-in reports: • • • • • • • 2.1.
Types of Report granularity configured in Power Manager Settings. Using this consolidated report, you can further use it for statistical analysis of all devices data in a single report. Hence you can take proper action to reduce the power consumption of different devices as well as take necessary actions for cooling the infrastructure. Below is a sample of report run: Built-in power and thermal report for group 2.1.
Types of Report Below is a sample of report run: Built-in metric thresholds report for group 2.1.5 Power Manager: Policies Report of Groups • • • Type: Built-In Description: This report captures the Power and Thermal policies applied on all groups those are monitored by Power Manager. Advantages: The benefit of this report is a user will get to know the power and thermal policies which are currently applied, active and in enabled state on all groups those are monitored by Power Manager.
Types of Report Power Headroom report for Physical Groups 2.1.7 Power Manager: Space Headroom Report for Physical Groups • • • Type: Built-in Description: This report captures the allocated and utilized space of the physical groups those are monitored by Power Manager.
Types of Report Name and description section for custom report 2. Build the custom report by selecting the parameters from the below fields: • • • • • • Category: Power Manager Devices Select Columns: Device Power and Thermal Metrics—you can also select the parameters from the search option. Sort by selecting specific parameters from the drop-down so that you can view the same after the report is run with reference to the direction.
Types of Report Report Builder for custom report for Power Manager Devices and Power and Thermal Metrics option 3. Click Finish and the custom report is created which is ready to run for collecting the data. Below is a sample of custom report run with brief details about individual custom report: 2.2.
Types of Report Similarly, you can create and run custom reports by selecting the various Power Manager categories along with necessary columns defined in OpenManage Enterprise report builder section: • • • • • • • • • Power Manager: Power and Thermal Report of Groups Power Manager: Metric Thresholds Report for Devices – Power Power Manager: Metric Thresholds Report for Devices – Temperature Power Manager: Metric Thresholds Report for Groups – Power Power Manager: Metric Thresholds Report for Groups – Temp
Report Actions 3 Report Actions Below is a list of actions you can perform based on reports: • • • • • • • Create Run Email Edit Copy Delete Export Below is the sample with all the actions you can perform on a report: Edit option for modifying custom report 3.1 Create Action Use this option to create a custom report that you can run to capture the power and thermal data along with device inventory details. Use the create option present on the Monitor > Reports tab to create a report.
Report Actions 3.5 Copy Action Use this option to create a copy of an existing report. Click the Copy option on the Monitor > Reports tab to copy a report. This action is applicable only for custom reports. 3.6 Delete Action Use this option to delete a report. Click the Delete option on the Monitor > Reports tab to delete a report. This action is applicable only for custom reports. 3.7 Export Action After running a report use this option to export a report.
Use Case for Interpreting Custom Power Reports 4 Use Case for Interpreting Custom Power Reports You can run built-in or custom reports to check the power and thermal data consumed by devices which are monitored by Power Manager. You can view the data captured in the report either in an hourly or daily format as per the configurations in Power Manager Settings.
Use Case for Interpreting Custom Power Reports Sample of a single report showing the total violation count • 17 Policies Report of Groups—the benefit of this report is that you can check the total number of times the group policy is violated due to increase in power consumption for the devices in the group or due to addition of new devices to the group. When the group policy is violated an alert is triggered.
Conclusion 5 Conclusion Monitoring your data center is key to efficient management of IT infrastructure and business-critical operations. Such effectiveness and efficiency are enhanced by viewing the status of your data center by using micro-level data that is made possible by using the Reports feature. This technical white paper provides indepth information about using these features by using the OpenManage Enterprise Graphical User Interface (GUI).
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