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
View power and thermal history of Power Manager
groups
About this task
View Power Manager-specific data on the OpenManage Enterprise dashboard.
Steps
1. Launch OpenManage Enterprise, click Home and go to the Power Manager section.
2. To view the power or thermal history of a group, click the Power History or Thermal History tab.
The graph is displayed.
3. (Optional) To change the duration, select an option from the Duration drop-down menu.
4. (Optional) To view data for a different group, select a group from the Group drop-down menu.
5. (Optional) To refresh the data, click the refresh option.
Viewing top five energy consumers
About this task
View the devices consuming most of the energy in the Power Manager section of the OpenManage Enterprise dashboard.
Steps
1. Launch OpenManage Enterprise, and go to the Power Manager section.
2. To view the top five energy consumers, click the Top Energy Consumers tab.
3. View data regarding servers, chassis, and groups using the Filter drop-down menu.
Viewing ratio of devices discovered in OpenManage
Enterprise to devices added in Power Manager
About this task
View the ratio of total devices that are discovered in OpenManage Enterprise and that are compatible with Power Manager to
total number of devices that are monitored through Power Manager.
Steps
1. Launch OpenManage Enterprise and go to the Power Manager section.
2. To view the ratio, click the Devices Statistics tab.
View top ten power offenders
Prerequisites
Ensure that you have configured the power and temperature thresholds in the Alert Thresholds tab under the Power
Management and Monitoring tab for devices, or under Group Details for groups.
About this task
To view a list of devices and groups that have violated the defined threshold values of power, run the in-built for Power
Manager: Metric Thresholds Report for Devices and Power Manager: Metric Thresholds Report for Groups. The
total violation count for power is the sum of upper warning, and upper critical violation counts. The total violation count for
temperature is the sum of upper warning, upper critical, lower warning, and lower critical violation counts.
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Quick access to Power Manager data