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Power Monitoring
Power Center enables the monitoring of current or historical power-related metrics (for example, power consumption or cost). This can
help you understand the power status in the data center and plan for additional power infrastructure, cooling, and facility needs.
You can monitor power at dierent device and/or group levels. You can congure power monitoring settings to meet your monitoring
needs, and you can print the power status graph.
Topics:
Power monitoring levels
Power thresholds
Viewing power details
Viewing Energy Consumption
Viewing a power history graph
Viewing system airow graph
Monitoring PDU
Monitoring UPS Power
Power monitoring levels
OpenManage Power Center provides power monitoring at the following levels for groups:
Rack
Aisle
Room
Data center
Custom
Power thresholds
It is useful to monitor thresholds when you want to be notied when the power of a group and/or device exceeds the set limits.
1 In the left pane, Click Devices.
2 From the Managed Groups tab, select the group or device for which you want to set the threshold.
3 In the details section of the screen, click Thresholds.
4 Under Power Alert Thresholds (W), enter values in the Upper Warning and Upper Critical text boxes.
When the power exceeds the upper warning value, a warning-level event alert is sent. When the power exceeds the upper critical
value, a critical-level event alert is sent.
5 Click Save.
For more information on conguring the device/group range and sampling interval, see Monitoring Settings.
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