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Use Case for Interpreting Custom Power Reports
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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. You can configure the following two parameters in
Power Manager:
• Report Duration—set this value for viewing power or thermal data for a selected period. The time
duration for data collection can be 1 Day, 7 Days, 15 Days, 1 Month, 3 Months, 6 Months, and 1
Year.
- To view the report data in hourly or daily format for the built-in reports, change the configurations
on Power Manager Settings tab.
• Aggregation Period—set this value for the frequency of data that you want to view. You can view
the frequency of data on an hourly or daily basis.
To view the report data in hourly or daily format for custom reports, change the configurations on the report
builder page.
Below are the reports listed with their advantage that can benefit you to use the reports effectively:
• Power and Thermal Report of Devices and Groups—the benefits of this report is that you can
check the power and thermal data in a single report either in an hourly or daily format instead of
navigating to the individual devices and groups. This report benefits you in a scaled infrastructure
where you can check the power consumption of all the devices monitored by Power Manager in a
single place.
Sample of a scalable report
• Metric Thresholds Report for Devices/Groups—the benefit of this report is that you can check how
many times the power and thermal violations have occurred for any device or group that is monitored
by Power Manager. You can navigate to any device or group, to view the current power or thermal
violations. However, you can check the total number of violations only through this report.