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 2. Compatibility matrix of Power Manager and OpenManage Enterprise (continued)
Power Manager Version OpenManage Enterprise Version
Power Manager 1.0
● OpenManage Enterprise 3.2
● OpenManage Enterprise 3.2.1
● OpenManage Enterprise 3.3
● OpenManage Enterprise 3.3.1
Supported protocols
Power Manager supports the following protocols:
● Power Manager supports only Web Services for Management (WSMAN) protocol for servers and chassis.
● Power Manager supports only Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol for PowerEdge MX7000 chassis.
Hardware requirements
The following table lists the minimum set of hardware configurations that are based on the number of devices you want to
monitor through Power Manager.
Table 3. Minimum required hardware
Minimum recommended
hardware
Large deployments Small deployments
Number of devices that Power
Manager can manage
Up to 6000 1000
RAM 32 GB 16 GB
Processors 8 cores 4 cores
Hard drive 250 GB 250 GB
Supported web browsers
Power Manager supports the following versions of web browsers:
● Internet Explorer (64-bit) 11 and later
● Mozilla Firefox 52 and later
● Google Chrome 58 and later
● Microsoft Edge version 41.16299 and later
Power Manager is not supported on the following:
● PowerEdge M1000e, PowerEdge VRTX, PowerEdge FX2, and PowerEdge FX2s chassis discovered with viewer credentials
● Servers with cabled Power Supply Units (PSUs)
● PowerEdge FM120x4
● Servers added through In-Band server discovery.
● iDRAC firmware version 4.00.00.00
Role-based user privileges for Power Manager
Role-based Access Control (RBAC) is a method to provide restrictive access to the users by assigning a role to each user.
The user's role determines the level of access for all the Power Manager and device management features. The following
table provides a list of different user roles and their permissions for all the features in Power Manager. Therefore, the console
enforces one role per account.
Compatibility matrix
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