Users Guide

Main Screen Available actions on the screen
• Identify and analyze the potential cooling issues in a data center
Events The Events screen lists the system and log events at the following severity levels:
• Critical
• Warning
• Info
On this screen you can:
• Acknowledge Events
• Add a note to an event
• Delete Events
• Sort events
• Filter events
• Export Events
Logs The Logs screen displays information about unexpected or informational events or internal errors that
occur in OpenManage Power Center.
Settings From the Settings submenus you can congure all OpenManage Power Center settings, including:
• 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.
• User and Group Accounts — Manage user or group accounts for accessing OpenManage Power
Center.
• Roles — Managing roles and rights.
• Licensing — Manage the issued licenses.
• Inventory — Track chassis inventory.
Home page
On the Home page, you can view the following information.
• Events (Overall)
• Events (Top 5 Groups)
• Devices Discovered [Total: <number>]
• Energy Consumers (Top 5 Groups) [kwh]
• Power Headroom
• Space Headroom
• Top Oenders (Power)
• Top Oenders (Temperature)
• Underutilized Racks (Power)
• Underutilized Racks (Space)
• Top 10 Events (Critical and Warning)
Getting started
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