Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC OpenManage Power Center 4.0 User’s Guide
- Overview
- Getting started
- Using OpenManage Power Center
- Preinstallation requirement for OpenManage Power Center
- Using Power Center on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Installing OpenManage Power Center on Microsoft Windows Server
- Installed directories in Windows
- OpenManage Power Center services on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Upgrading Power Center on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Uninstalling OpenManage Power Center on Microsoft Windows operating system
- Launching OpenManage Power Center on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Configuring Enhanced Security Configuration for Internet Explorer
- Using OpenManage Power Center on Linux operating systems
- Using OpenManage Power Center through Command Line Interface
- Command Line Interface error handling
- Command Line Interface commands
- help
- add_profile
- update_profile
- add_device
- update_device
- rediscover_device
- find_device
- remove_profile
- delete_device
- add_group
- delete_group
- update_group
- add_device_to_group
- remove_device_from_group
- move_device
- move_group
- add_group_to_group
- List commands
- list_device_props
- list_devices
- list_group_props
- list_groups
- list_report_groups
- list_reports
- run_report
- discover_device
- backup_database
- restore_database
- add_ssh_server_key
- remove_ssh_server_key
- list_ssh_server_key
- Command line interface error codes
- Access control
- Task management
- Device Management
- Virtual machines
- Power Monitoring
- Temperature Monitoring
- Policies
- Analysis
- Managing reports
- Event Management
- Security
- Configuring settings
- Logs
- Troubleshooting
- Why am I being required to log in more than once by Power Center?
- Why can’t I access the Power Center management console from a Web browser, even though the Power Center server is running normally?
- Why was I automatically logged out of Power Center?
- Why did my connection to iDRAC6 devices (PowerEdge Servers) fail, when the network connection status is Connected?
- Why can’t Power Center receive events sent from devices?
- Why are previously-existing power policies (including EPR) still effective on devices when Power Center is corrupted or has been uninstalled?
- Why do I see the PostgreSQL error log "FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command" in the Windows event log?
- Why I can’t open power center login page when I access it through Firefox 31?
- Why I encounter an error, “An internal error occurred. Contact the technical support for help: subordinate error code: 0x8f0c1301”, the Home page when OpenManage Power Center server is installed on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2?
- Why do I encounter a network exception while adding a LDAP user?
- Why do I encounter a network exception while adding a chassis to a group?
- In the compare report, why is the average power value of a device different when the service is stopped for a few hours?
- Why is the “policy return to normal” event not displayed when the only device in the Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is deleted?
- After discovering the devices, incorrect device information is displayed? Why is this happening?
- I am not able to view the power headroom graph on the home screen. How do I troubleshoot?
- I am not able to manage the servers discovered by OMPC through the Redfish protocol. Events are also not logged. How do I troubleshoot and resolve the issue?
- I discovered a server through the Redfish protocol. When I tried to manage the server, the events are not logged in the event list. What do I do now?
- Upgrade failure recovery on Microsoft Windows operating system
- Upgrade failure recovery on Linux operating system
• Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\conf\app.cong.xml
• Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\external\apache-tomcat\conf\context.xml
• Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\external\apache-tomcat\conf\server.xml
• Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\external\apache-tomcat\conf\tomcat-users.xml
• Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\external\apache-tomcat\conf\web.xml
• Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\keystore.ssl
• Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\pgdata\pg_hba.conf
• Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\pgdata\postgresql.conf
4 Delete all content under Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\external\apache-tomcat\work.
5 Update the Properties of the Power Center services to use the normal user account to log into the service. When the system noties
that "The account .\A has been granted the Log On As A Service right," click OK to conrm.
6 Start all Power Center services for these changes to take eect.
Operating system hardening
Before deploying OpenManage Power Center on a virtual appliance, you must congure the operating system (OS) as follows to prevent
data conicts and errors:
• Installation Settings
• Do not install Power Center and its database in the system volume or domain controller.
• Service Pack and Hotx Settings
• Install all critical or important service packs and hot xes.
• Hardening requirements recommended by Center for Internet Security (CIS)
• Apply the hardening requirements recommended by CIS for OpenManage Power Center supported Windows OS. For more
information on CIS benchmark, visit www.cisecurity.org.
Audit log
Power Center tracks critical operations and stores related information in a log le for auditing purposes. Each log includes the following
basic information:
• User name
• Time
• Action
• Details (Depends on the action; see the following table for audit log details).
Table 13. Audit log details
Action Tracked Information
Successful/failed user login/logout Source IP
Add/remove emergency power reduction Impacted single device/group
Set/update/remove power policy Impacted single device/group
Start/stop network discovery Network discovery information; includes protocol prole, IP range
Change session timeout Old/new value of timeout
Change password for Power Center managed user User name
Update role privilege Role name, old/new value of privileges
112 Security