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28 Installation Guide for OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
10 Configuring Dashboards
Reports offer an option to view all the data in a single place, however the dashboard offers a more concise
and user-friendly method to view important statistics. This data related to Power Manager is rendered on the
Power Manager section on the OpenManage dashboard (Home Page) and Power Management Overview
page.
10.1 OpenManage Enterprise Dashboard (Home Page)
The OpenManage Enterprise dashboard has a dedicated section for Power Manager with the tabs listed
below:
• Power History–this tab is for a quick view of the power metrics for a group. You can select three
groups at maximum for which you want to view the power metric data directly on the dashboard
without navigating to the All Devices page and searching for the group details.
• Thermal History–this tab is for a quick view of the temperature metrics of a group. You can select
three groups at maximum for which you want to see the temperature metric data directly on the
dashboard without navigating to the All Devices page and seeking for the group details.
• Top Energy Consumer–this is a bar graph that shows the top energy consuming devices along with
Compute, Chassis and Group filters. This bar graph shows statistics of Top 5 energy consumers
along with the energy consumption values shown on the Y-axis.
• Device Statistics–this graph shows the count of devices which are Power Manager capable and the
count of devices already added to Monitoring List.
Dashlet for Power History for Group