Users Guide

Rack management
Manage the physical groups hierarchy, and perform rack utilization for space and power using rack management features.
Prerequisites
Ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
● The devices have OpenManage Enterprise Advanced and the required management console licenses. For more
information, see the License requirements.
● Devices are discovered in OpenManage Enterprise. For information about discovering devices, see OpenManage Enterprise
User's Guide.
● The modular server is not in a Proxied state in OpenManage Enterprise.
About this task
To monitor and manage racks in your data center, perform the following steps:
Steps
1. Create the physical groups to replicate the group hierarchies in a data center.
2. Add the unmonitored devices in Power Manager.
3. Add the individual devices and unmonitored devices in physical groups.
4. View Power Manager details like group metrics, policy applied, power and space headroom data, by expanding Physical
Hierachy to a group level and click Group Details.
5. Associate Power Distribution Units (PDUs) to rack. For more information, see associate PDU to rack .
6. Monitor PDU information. For more information, see View PDUs.
Topics:
• Add unmonitored device details
• Add or edit device details for Power Manager monitored devices
• Create physical groups
• Power Distribution Unit
Add unmonitored device details
Unmonitored devices are user-defined or non-compatible devices that must be considered for accurate rack management. The
unmonitored devices are not monitored for any Power Manager capabilities such as power, thermal monitoring, power policy and
EPR, and alert thresholds.
About this task
Add the details of the unmonitored devices in Power Manager to replicate the physical group hierarchy present in your data
center and manage the racks.
NOTE:
If you are logging in as a Device Manager, only the device groups and devices that are in your scope are available for
viewing and management.
For example, if you are logging in as a Device Manager DM1 user, you can only view and cannot edit the unmonitored devices
information that is part of the group in Device Manager DM1 user scope.
Steps
1. Launch OpenManage Enterprise, and then click Plugins > Power Management > Power Manager Devices >
UNMONITORED > Unmonitored Devices.
The Unmonitored Devices tab is displayed.
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