Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager Version 1.2 User’s Guide
- Contents
- Introduction to Power Manager
- What is new in this release
- Compatibility matrix
- License requirements
- Scalability and performance
- Getting started with Power Manager
- Monitoring and managing Power Manager metrics
- Rack management
- Manage data center during power reduction
- Quick access to Power Manager data
- Adding or removing groups from OpenManage Enterprise dashboard to monitor Power Manager data
- View power and thermal history of Power Manager groups
- Viewing top five energy consumers
- Viewing ratio of devices discovered in OpenManage Enterprise to devices added in Power Manager
- View top ten power offenders
- View top ten temperature offenders
- View top 10 underutilized racks for power and space
- View power and space headroom
- Maintaining Power Manager
- Alerts
- Reports in Power Manager
- Updating Power Manager
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Troubleshooting
- Other information you may need
Table 2. Compatibility matrix of Power Manager and OpenManage Enterprise
Power Manager Version OpenManage Enterprise Version
Power Manager 1.1 and 1.2
● OpenManage Enterprise 3.4
● OpenManage Enterprise 3.4.1
● OpenManage Enterprise 3.5
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
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Compatibility matrix