Users Guide

CAUTION:
Applying emergency power reduction will throttle power on the devices down to an extremely low level, which will impact performance.
All devices with Monitor & Capping power capability are impacted. Use this only in an emergency situation.
All of the devices with the Monitor & Capping power capability within this group are set to the minimal power consumption state. The
Emergency Power Reduction button appears in the upper-right corner of all pages. The devices impacted by emergency power reduction
are marked with EPR in the Devices screen.
Enabling Emergency Power Reduction
1 In the left pane, click Devices > All Devices or Devices > Managed Groups.
2 From the list of devices, select the device (data center, room, aisle, rack, or chassis) to which you need to apply the Emergency Power
Reduction.
3 In the task menu, click Enable EPR.
The following message is displayed: Applying Emergency Power Reduction will throttle power down to an extremely low level, and
impact performance. Do you want to continue?
4 Click Yes to proceed.
Again a message is displayed to conrm if you are opting to compromise with the performance by reducing power.
5 Click Yes.
Disabling Emergency Power Reduction
Disabling Emergency Power Reduction (EPR) restores device power to its full state.
NOTE
: For instructions on applying EPR to an entity, see Enabling emergency power reduction.
NOTE: It may take a few moments for the Power Center console to reect the disabling of EPR. You can manually refresh your
screen to see the updated EPR status notication in the upper right corner of the screen.
NOTE: The red EPR status notication icon only appears in the upper right corner of the screen when EPR has been applied to a
device.
1 From any screen within Power Center, click the red EPR status notication in the upper right corner of the screen or in the left pane,
click Devices > All Devices, or Devices > Managed Groups.
NOTE
: If the devices on which you enabled EPR do not appear on the list, click Refresh.
A pop-up window opens listing the Name of the entity under EPR and a Timestamp reecting the time EPR went into eect.
2 Click the View EPR button.
The Emergency Power Reduction window is displayed.
3 Select the entity (data center, room, aisle, rack, or chassis) for which you want to disable EPR.
4 In the task menu, click Disable EPR.
NOTE
: The Disable EPR option is displayed only if you select a device.
The following message is displayed: You are about to disable Emergency Power Reduction. Are you sure you want to perform this
action?
5 Click Yes to disable the EPR.
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