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Adding Devices and Groups to Monitoring List
13 Installation Guide for OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
Device Statistics of Capable and Monitored Devices
4.3 Adding Groups to Monitoring List
Power Manager leverages the custom Static Group creation capability of OpenManage Enterprise in order to
create the groups.
Following are some of the use cases for this feature:
• Addition of empty group to Monitoring List–you can add empty groups to the Monitoring List. This
feature helps you to have the structure of groups ready and add the devices to the Monitoring List.
After adding the devices to the Group, the devices are listed in the monitoring list under All
Monitored Devices tab.
• Creation of group and then addition to the Monitoring List–one of the strategies to provide data
for corrective actions to save power is to group the devices as per their rack structure (replicating
their locations in a data center). After adding this group to the monitoring list, leverage the cumulative
metric data to decide on the corrective actions.
For Static Groups, after the group is created, following is the method to add these groups to the Monitoring
List:
1. In OpenManage Enterprise, click Power Management  Monitored Devices and Groups  Static
Groups  Add Group(s)
2. Select the groups in Add Groups to Power Manager and click Add Selected.
• Capable devices that are part of the group are automatically added to the Monitoring List and are
listed in All Monitored Devices tab and, the metric collection for these devices begin in the
background.
• The Static Groups added to Power Manager are listed under the Static Groups tab and the metric
aggregation for these groups begin in the background.