Users Guide

Conguring settings
You congure the OpenManage Power Center settings in the Settings screen. The Settings screen comprises the following tabs:
• General — Congure the timeout for console and device communication.
• Monitoring — Congure the power/thermal units and energy consumption parameters.
• Alerts — Congure alerts for SNMP traps, enable or disable sending alerts through emails, congure email recipients, and event
severity-level.
• SMTP — Congure SMTP parameters for sending alert emails.
• Database — Congure database compression and purging policy.
• Directory — Congure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) settings to support authentication through LDAP. This tab is
displayed only on systems running the Linux operating systems where OpenManage Power Center is installed.
• Users — Manage user or group accounts for accessing OpenManage Power Center.
• Roles — Managing roles and rights.
• Licensing — Manage the issued licenses.
• Inventory — Track chassis inventory.
Some settings are activated immediately; some settings are activated during the subsequent time duration. See the following sections for
more specic information.
Topics:
• General settings
• Monitoring settings
• Database policy settings
• Directory
• Alerts
• Editing SMTP settings
• Licensing
• Inventory
General settings
In the left pane, click Settings. By default the Settings > General tab is displayed.
In the General tab, you can view and congure the timeout of console sessions and protocols.
Conguring console session timeout
1 In the left pane, click Settings.
The General tab of the Settings screen is displayed.
2 Under Console Session Timeout, enter the time, in minutes, after which you want the console session to expire, in the Session
Timout text box.
The default time is 20 minutes.
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