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4 Installation Guide for OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Terminologies ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2 Installation of Plugin ..................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Online Installation ............................................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Offline Installation ............................................................................................................................................... 8
3 License Requirements ................................................................................................................................................ 10
3.1 License details for various devices ................................................................................................................... 10
4 Adding Devices and Groups to Monitoring List .......................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Device Discovery Before and After Installation of the Plugin ........................................................................... 12
4.2 Leveraging the Device Statistics Dashboard .................................................................................................... 12
4.3 Adding Groups to Monitoring List ..................................................................................................................... 13
5 View and Analyze Metric Data ................................................................................................................................... 16
5.1 Metric Data for Devices .................................................................................................................................... 16
5.2 Metric Data for Groups ..................................................................................................................................... 18
5.3 Analyzing data using Metric Graphs ................................................................................................................. 19
6 Setting Power and Temperature Threshold ............................................................................................................... 20
6.1 Setting Thresholds ............................................................................................................................................ 20
6.2 Event Generation .............................................................................................................................................. 21
7 Setting Static and Temperature-Triggered Policy ...................................................................................................... 24
7.1 Static Policy ...................................................................................................................................................... 24
7.2 Temperature-Triggered Policy .......................................................................................................................... 24
8 EPR ............................................................................................................................................................................ 26
9 Reading Reports......................................................................................................................................................... 27
10 Configuring Dashboards ............................................................................................................................................. 28
10.1 OpenManage Enterprise Dashboard (Home Page) ......................................................................................... 28
10.2 Power Management Overview Page ................................................................................................................ 30
11 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 32
12 Terminologies Used ................................................................................................................................................... 33
13 Technical Support ...................................................................................................................................................... 34