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Adding Devices and Groups to Monitoring List
12 Installation Guide for OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
4 Adding Devices and Groups to Monitoring List
This section provides recommendation about leveraging the custom Static Group feature of OpenManage
Enterprise for creation of groups for better power management of devices. This section additionally calls out
method for addition of device and groups to the Monitoring List of Power Manager.
Few use cases are listed below to provide various options related to licensing and addition of devices and
groups to Monitoring List.
4.1 Device Discovery Before and After Installation of the Plugin
The behavior of addition of devices to Power Manager are in accordance with when the device was
discovered in OpenManage Enterprise.
• If the device is discovered after plugin installation—the license capabilities are identified by the
plugin during inventory cycle and you can add the device directly to the Monitoring List if it meets the
required capabilities.
• If the device is discovered before plugin installation—the plugin is unable to identify the
capabilities of the device. Hence, re-run the inventory on the device to fetch the device capabilities.
After clicking Refresh the list for Power Manager capabilities option, the device is listed for
addition to the monitoring list.
After the capabilities are identified, the devices are listed for addition in Power Manager. Following is the
method to add these devices to the Monitoring List:
• In OpenManage Enterprise, click Power ManagementMonitored Devices and GroupsIndividual
Devices
• Select the devices under Add Devices to Power Manager section
• Click Add Selected.
Devices added to the Monitoring List are displayed under All Monitored Devices tab and, the metric
collection for these devices begin in the background.
4.2 Leveraging the Device Statistics Dashboard
The dashboard section on the Home page of OpenManage Enterprise has a section for Power Manager after
the plugin is installed. The Device Statistics tab under this section displays the count of Capable Devices
and Monitored Devices on a mouse hover.
• Capable Devices–this graph displays the count of devices that are capable of addition to Monitoring
List out of the total number of discovered devices in OpenManage Enterprise. For the second case
called out in the above section, once the capabilities are refreshed, the count for Capable Devices is
updated to add up the count of the newly identified capable devices.
• Monitored Devices–this graph displays the count of devices that are being monitored by Power
Manager.