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Setting Power and Temperature Threshold
20 Installation Guide for OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
6 Setting Power and Temperature Threshold
Another step in the checklist of setting up the plugin is to create Power and Temperature Thresholds for
devices and groups.
Thresholds provide a set of boundary conditions in order to generate events for immediate attention of a Data
Center Administrator to investigate the problem. This feature provides assistance to a Data Center
Administrator to maintain the Power and Temperature values for devices and groups within a pre-determined
optimum range.
This section summarizes the method to set thresholds for devices and groups.
6.1 Setting Thresholds
To set the threshold values for groups and devices, perform the following steps:
Prerequisites:
• Determine the optimum Upper Warning and Upper Critical values for Power Threshold and Lower
Critical, Lower Warning, Upper Warning and Upper Critical values for Temperature Thresholds.
• For a group, ensure that these values are a summation of the thresholds identified for individual
devices part of the group.
To set the threshold for a device:
1. Click the name of a device. The device details are displayed on the Overview tab.
2. Click Power Management and MonitoringAlert Thresholds.
3. Click the Edit option and provide the values.
4. Click Apply.
To set the threshold value for a group:
1. Click the name of a group.
2. Click Group DetailsAlert Thresholds.
3. Click the Edit option and provide the values.
4. Click Apply.