Users Guide

Sorting devices
By default, the devices In the All Devices tab, are listed by Name in alphabetical order (A-Z). But you can sort the list as per your
requirement.
1 In the left pane, click Devices to view the list of all devices.
2 To sort the devices, click the ‘up’ or ‘down’ arrow next to one of the following column headers:
• Status
• Device
• Device Type
• Device Size
• Device Model
The ‘up’ or ‘down’ arrow is displayed next to the column header by which the display is sorted.
Updating Device location
OMPC enables you to replicate and update the physical organization and hierarchy of a data center.
Using OMPC you can place servers in the hierarchy specied on iDRAC/CMC. Only servers for which the values have been populated in
the following hierarchy — Data Center, Room, Aisle, and Rack elds are automatically assigned in OMPC. The servers remain unassigned, if
any of the values are missing in the hierarchy.
The iDRAC/CMC location can be updated from a group level following the physical hierarchy — Data center, Room, Aisle, and Rack. OMPC
updates the location of the devices present in a particular group, such as a data center, room, aisle, or a rack.
NOTE
: The location can be updated only for chassis, rack, and tower (only Dell servers).
1 In the left pane, click Devices > Managed Group
2 From the list of device groups, select a data center, room, aisle, rack, or a device in the rack.
The details of the device are displayed in the Details section
3 Click Update Device Location.
The Device Location Update Window is displayed.
4 Click Update to update the device location with the iDRAC/CMC location.
NOTE: If the iDRAC/CMC path and the device path are not synchronized, a warning message is displayed in the Details
> Device Details section. You may have to update the device path to ensure that it is synchronized with the iDRAC/CMC
path.
A table is displayed providing information about the successful location update. If the update is not successful, you can view the
application logs for details about the failure.
5 Click Close.
Chained PDU Support
In a data center, you can use any number of PDUs for power distribution, depending on the infrastructural requirements. The PDUs can be
connected in a daisy chain manner to further enhance and improve the power distribution in the data center. In the daisy chain
arrangement of PDUs, a master PDU discovers and monitors the subordinate PDUs. Currently, only the master PDUs are discovered, but
the subordinate PDUs connected are not discovered, hence monitoring the power aspects of those PDUs are not possible.
Starting OMPC 3.2, you can also discover, monitor, and perform all operations on the subordinate PDUs as it is done on a master PDU. The
daisy chained PDUs are discovered using the IP address, irrespective of whether the same SNMP port is used (for both master and the
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