Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager Version 2.0 User’s Guide
- Contents
- Introduction to Power Manager
- Revision history
- What is new in this release
- Compatibility matrix
- License requirements
- Scalability and performance
- Getting started with Power Manager
- Create a device discovery job
- Monitor and manage Power Manager devices
- Rack management
- Manage data center during power reduction
- Quick access to Power Manager data
- View power and thermal history of Power Manager groups
- View top five energy consumers
- View 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 ten underutilized racks for power and space
- View power and space headroom
- Maintain Power Manager
- Alerts
- Reports in Power Manager
- Update Power Manager
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix
- Other information you may need
Supported PDU device manufacturers
The following are the Power Distribution Unit (PDU) device brands that are supported in Power Manager:
● Vertiv Geist
● APC by Schneider Electric
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 8000 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 does not support 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
● Hypervisors with viewer credentials
Supported protocols
Power Manager supports the following protocols:
● Power Manager modifies the following with respect to Telemetry Streaming service in iDRAC to retrieve metrics through
Redfish protocol:
○ Enables Telemetry Data Stream
○ Adds or uploads a OME-PMP-Power-A custom Metric Report Definition report.
● Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for Power Distribution Unit (PDU) devices.
● Web Services for Management (WSMAN) protocol for servers and chassis.
● Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol for PowerEdge MX7000 chassis.
Versions of Power Manager compatible with
OpenManage Enterprise
The following table shows Power Manager and OpenManage Enterprise version compatibility.
Compatibility matrix
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