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
Command Line Interface error handling
On Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, an exit code is displayed indicating the successful execution of a command. An error
code is displayed, if a command is not executed successfully.
On Microsoft Windows operating system, when the command is successful, the CLI exit code is 0. Refer Command Line Interface Error
Codes to know about specic error codes.
On Linux operating system, when a command is successful, the CLI exit code is 0. If a command is not successful, a generic error code, 1,
is displayed. Use stderr to get a more specic error code, and to nd more information on that code, see Command Line Interface Error
Codes
.
Command Line Interface commands
This section lists the commands used to work with OMPC. In the following commands, [ ] represents optional attributes and < > represents
variables. All command line text is case insensitive.
help
Usage:
ompc_cli help [<COMMAND>] [<COMMAND_OPTION >]
The help command prints the help content for a command or a command option (including the generic option). Authentication is not
required for the help command.
If no help command is specied (the ompc_cli command was issued with no parameters), generic help information about the ompc_cli tool
displays. ompc_cli help also displays the generic help.
ompc_cli help help displays the help for the help command.
When only <COMMAND> is provided, the CLI prints the help for the specied command, including the command options that are available
for the command. If you enter an invalid command, the CLI displays an error message.
When both <COMMAND> and <COMMAND_OPTION> are provided, the CLI prints the help for the command option specied for the
given command. If the command option is not a valid option for given command, the CLI displays an error message.
If more than one command or command option is provided, the CLI displays an error message.
add_prole
Usage:
ompc_cli add_profile -protocol <protocol_name> [-description <description>] [<pair of protocol
property and value options>] <profile_name>
The add_prole command adds a new discovery prole to OMPC. The prole_name argument is used to identify the prole, and must be a
unique name. The protocol property and value depend on the protocol used to perform discovery.
The protocol_name should be <IPMI | SNMPv1v2c | SNMPv3 | WS-Man | SSH | HTTPS>
For IPMI, the properties are:
• ipmi_user
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Using OpenManage Power Center through Command Line Interface