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
What's new in this release
● Power Manager can now support devices up to 6000.
● After upgrading OpenManage Enterprise, if the installed version of Power Manager is incompatible with the latest version of
OpenManage Enterprise, Power Manager extension is disabled.
● Flexibility to download the Power Manager files and install the extension at a convenient time.
● Sort and filter information for all the features in Power Manager.
● Support for configuring the power cap value in Watts or percentage at a group level.
● Dedicated landing page for Power Manager.
● Improvements in widgets for better user experience.
● Support for creating and maintain temperature-triggered policies to prevent damage to managed devices due to overheating
caused by failure of cooling infrastructure by applying Emergency Power Reduction (EPR) on the devices.
● Added support to view temperature-triggered policy details in existing in-built reports.
● View the top 10 devices and groups violating power and temperature thresholds.
● Support for Dell EMC VxRail systems.
● Support for PowerEdge servers with AMD processors with iDRAC version 4.10.10.10 onwards.
● Support for iDRAC Datacenter license.
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