Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager Version 1.1 User’s Guide
- Contents
- Introduction to Power Manager
- What's new in this release
- Compatibility matrix
- License requirements
- Scalability and performance
- Power Manager workflow
- Getting started with Power Manager
- Maintaining Power Manager
- Viewing Metrics and Monitoring History in Power Manager
- Manage data center during power reduction
- Policies
- Thresholds
- Alerts
- Widgets for Power Manager
- Adding or removing groups from OpenManage Enterprise dashboard to monitor Power Manager data
- Viewing top five energy consumers
- Viewing power and thermal history of Power Manager groups
- Viewing ratio of devices discovered in OpenManage Enterprise to devices added in Power Manager
- Viewing ratio of devices discovered in OpenManage Enterprise to devices added in Power Manager
- Viewing top ten power offenders
- Viewing top ten temperature offenders
- Reports in Power Manager
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Troubleshooting
- Other information you may need
Table 7. Power Manager Settings (continued)
Field Description
Aggregation Period Select frequency of the level of detailed information that
has to be displayed in reports.
NOTE: If you select a Report Duration other than 1
Day, the Aggregation Period is automatically set to 1
Day.
Delete Power Manager data Based on your data requirements, select one of the options:
● Yes—To delete configured alert thresholds and metric
data that is collected from devices and groups when
they are removed from Power Manager.
● No—To retain the configured alert thresholds and metric
data that is collected from devices and groups when
they are removed from Power Manager.
NOTE: When you add a device or group and set Delete
Power Manager data to No, all Power Manager-related
data for that device or group is removed from view but
not deleted, when you remove the device or group from
Power Manager. When you re-add the device or group,
data for that device or group is available again.
Reset WSMAN power metric data Based on data accuracy requirement, select one of the
following options:
● Enabled—To reset the current cumulative energy
consumption (in kWh) for the server or chassis in iDRAC
or CMC. This reset depends on the selected Data
gathering interval.
● Disabled—To not reset the cumulative energy
consumption data in iDRAC or CMC.
NOTE: To delete the data after specific duration, configure the Data purge interval option present in the following
location: OpenManage Enterprise > Application Settings > Console Preferences > Metrics Collection Settings.
The following table provides further information about the mandatory fields and the value range for each field.
Table 8. Details about mandatory data intervals and duration
Field Mandatory Value Range
Power Unit Yes
Watt is the default unit.
● Watt
● BTU/Hr
Temperature Unit Yes
Celsius is the default unit.
● Celsius
● Fahrenheit
Data gathering interval Yes
The default value is 15 minutes.
● 15
● 30
● 60
Duration of top energy consumers Yes
The default value is 3 Months.
● 1 Day
● 7 Days
● 15 Days
● 1 Month
● 3 Months
● 6 Months
● 1 Year
Report Duration Yes
The default value is 3 Months.
● 1 Day
● 7 Days
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