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33 Installation Guide for OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
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Monitoring–this is the metric collection for various devices and groups.
These metrics for devices include Maximum, Minimum, Average and Instant Power; Maximum, Minimum,
Average and Instant Temperature; Maximum, Minimum and Average CPU Utilization; Maximum, Minimum
and Average Memory Bandwidth Utilization; Maximum, Minimum and Average Input Output Utilization;
System Airflow and Energy Consumption.
Metrics supported for groups include Maximum, Minimum and Average Power; Maximum, Minimum and
Average Temperature; and System Airflow in which case these values are aggregated from the values
received from the devices part of these groups.
Monitoring List– for devices to be monitored they must be included under the scope of PMP for the same.
For which the devices are to be added to a list of devices by the user. This list is called the Monitoring List.
Management– this is for the actions or configuration changes that you can perform on the devices using
Power Manager either directly or by virtue of OpenManage Enterprise events generated.
For Example, Emergency Power Reduction (EPR) by either throttling the power or powering off the device.
Note: For more information about the supported metrics for various device types, see
Power Manager 1.2
User’s Guide.