Users Guide

Getting started
This chapter introduces the OpenManage Power Center management console, and presents several use cases that describe standard uses
of OpenManage Power Center.
Topics:
• Management console introduction
• Home page
• Common use cases
• Supported and unsupported devices
Management console introduction
To use OpenManage Power Center, you must open a Web browser and log in. The management console opens with a list of the available
screens in the left navigation pane, and the currently open screen in the right pane.
Table 2. Main OMPC Pages
Main Screen Available actions on the screen
Home The Home screen introduces OpenManage Power Center features, and lists initial setup steps that you
can complete after setup. You can click the Help to get additional information. On this screen you can
view:
• Overall events generated by the managed devices
• Events from the top ve groups generated by the managed devices
• The total number and type of discovered devices
• The top ve energy consuming device groups at the root level
• Information about power and space headroom
• Analyze top power cap and temperature threshold oenders
• Most underutilized racks
• Top 10 most recent critical and warning events
• Information about power and temperature history
Tasks The Tasks feature enables you to perform device discovery and power control tasks such as power-on
and power-o, on a specic device or group of devices. On the Tasks screen you can:
• Create new discovery and power control tasks
• Edit or delete discovery and power control tasks
• Start or re-run discovery and power control tasks
• Refresh the list of discovery or power control tasks
• View the summary of the discovery or power control tasks
Devices On the Devices screen, you can view both network-discovered and manually added devices. On this
screen you can:
• Add groups
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