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3 Overall Best Practices for OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
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1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
2 Monitoring and Capping Power in Data Center ............................................................................................................ 6
2.1 Monitoring Devices and Groups ......................................................................................................................... 6
2.1.1 Analyzing Historical Data .................................................................................................................................... 6
2.1.2 Analyzing Historical data .................................................................................................................................... 8
2.2 Creating Static Power Policies ........................................................................................................................... 8
3 Understanding Top Offenders and Top Energy Consumers ...................................................................................... 10
3.1 Top Offenders ................................................................................................................................................... 10
3.2 Top Energy Consumers .................................................................................................................................... 11
4 Using Physical Hierarchy ........................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Top 10 Underutilized Racks (Power) ................................................................................................................ 12
4.2 Top 10 Underutilized Racks (Space) ................................................................................................................ 13
5 Using Dashboard ........................................................................................................................................................ 15
5.1 Power History ................................................................................................................................................... 15
5.2 Thermal History ................................................................................................................................................ 15
5.3 Top Energy Consumers .................................................................................................................................... 16
5.4 Device Statistics ............................................................................................................................................... 16
6 Disabling Power Manager .......................................................................................................................................... 18
7 Understanding Power Manager Settings ................................................................................................................... 19
7.1 Monitoring Units ................................................................................................................................................ 19
7.2 Data Intervals .................................................................................................................................................... 19
7.3 Durations .......................................................................................................................................................... 19
7.4 Preferences ...................................................................................................................................................... 19
8 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 22
9 Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 23
9.1 Related resources............................................................................................................................................. 23