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Dell EMC OpenManage Power Center 4.0 User’s Guide
Overview
- Key features
- New in this release
- Topology
- System requirements
  - Hardware and software requirements for the server system
  - Hardware and software requirements for devices
Getting started
- Management console introduction
- Home page
- Common use cases
- Supported and unsupported devices
Using OpenManage Power Center
- Preinstallation requirement for OpenManage Power Center
- Using Power Center on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- 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
- Command line interface error codes
Access control
- About authentication
- Logging in
- Logging out
- Managing user roles and privileges
- Managing user accounts
- Viewing current user information
Task management
- Discovery tasks
  - Creating discovery tasks
  - Re-running recent discovery tasks
- Power control tasks
  - Creating power tasks
- Protocol profile
Device Management
- Adding a new device
- Adding an existing group
- Adding a device from the network
- Viewing resource utilization history
- Filtering devices
- Editing a device
- Deleting devices using a filter
- Sorting devices
- Updating Device location
- Chained PDU Support
  - Viewing chained PDUs
- Managing groups
Virtual machines
- Filtering virtual machines
- Creating a new virtual machine group
- Adding a virtual machine to an existing group
- Moving a virtual machine group
- Viewing a virtual machine power history graph
- Viewing a virtual machine power distribution graph
- Deleting a VM group
Power Monitoring
- Power monitoring levels
- Power thresholds
- Viewing power details
- Viewing Energy Consumption
- Viewing a power history graph
- Viewing system airflow graph
- Monitoring PDU
- Monitoring UPS Power
Temperature Monitoring
- Temperature Monitoring Level
- Viewing Temperature Details
- Viewing a temperature history graph
- Monitoring the Temperature of the Chassis/Blade Server
- Applying circuit breaker limits to chassis
- Monitoring the Temperature of Devices/Groups
Policies
- Dynamic power caps
- Power Policy Capabilities
  - Scenario 1 — The license expires or is not imported
  - Scenario 2 — You try to import a license on a device without a license imported
- Upgrading Device Power Policy Capability
- Creating a policy
- Policy Priority Levels
- Policy Modes
- Enabling or disabling a policy
- Viewing policies in the power details graph
- Editing a policy
- Deleting a policy
- Filtering policies
Analysis
- Server characteristics
- Underutilized servers
  - Configuring underutilized servers settings
- Power Analysis
- Cooling Analysis
Managing reports
- Viewing Report Details
- Creating reports
- Editing reports
- Deleting reports
- Adding report groups
- Editing report groups
- Deleting report groups
Event Management
- Pre-defined events
- Custom events
- Application log events
- Supported PDU and UPS events
- Event severity levels
- Viewing events
- Sorting events
- Adding comments to events
- Deleting events
- Filtering events
- Sending test events from an IPMI device
Security
- Starting Services with a Windows operating system standard user account
- Operating system hardening
- Audit log
- Managing certificates
Configuring settings
- General settings
  - Configuring console session timeout
  - Setting protocol timeout periods
- Monitoring settings
- Database policy settings
  - Setting or editing the database policy
  - Configuring database backup
- Directory
  - Editing directory settings
  - Viewing directory settings
- Alerts
- Editing SMTP settings
- Licensing
  - Importing a License
- Inventory
  - Configuring inventory settings
Logs
- Sorting the logs display
- Setting the application log size
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
- Check OMPC statusRecover OMPCCheck OMPC database service statusRollback to previous OMPC versionCheck OMPC database upgrade statusUpdate OMPC to next versionRecover OMPC to old version
Upgrade failure recovery on Linux operating system
- Check OMPC statusRecover OMPCCheck OMPC database daemon statusRollback to previous OMPC versionCompleting OMPC upgrade

Viewing a power history graph

OpenManage Power Center provides a visual representation of the power history of the system devices.

1 In the left pane, click Devices > All Devices or Devices > Managed Group.

2 From the list of devices, select a device.

The details of the device are displayed in the Details section.

3 In the Details section, click the Thresholds tab.

4 Click View History next to Power Alert Thresholds.

The Power History — <device> window is displayed.

5 Select the time period and attributes displayed:

a To select the time period represented in the graph, click the buttons along the top of the graph.

b To add or delete attributes, select from the listed options; click the option to toggle its addition or removal from the graph:

• Power

• Upper Warning

• Upper Critical

NOTE: To view specic numbers related to each attribute displayed in any section of the graph, move the pointer over

the graph.

6 To move along the data stream over time, click the navigation arrows below the graph.

Viewing system airow graph

iDRAC provides an accurate calculation of the server’s Cubic Feet Per Minute (CFM) value. The CFM value is a measure of the net system

airow to the servers. This value is used in Power Thermal Aware Scheduling (PTAS), balancing the data center workload, ecient server

utilization, and thermal management from a rack level. CFM or the system airow graph is useful from a group level (data center, room,

aisle, rack, or custom groups). The values are collected only from the devices that support this feature.

1 In the left pane, click Devices > Managed Group

2 Select the required data center, room, aisle, or rack in the data center.

The details of the selected entity are displayed in the Details section

3 Click System Airow History.

The System Airow History — <data center name> window is displayed.

4 Select the time period and attributes displayed:

a To select the time period represented in the graph, click the buttons along the top of the graph.

NOTE

: To move along the data stream over time, click the navigation arrows below the graph.

NOTE: A rack may not be displayed in the rack utilization graph if:

• The actual power of a device or devices in the rack exceeds the specied power capacity.

• The estimated maximum power for a device in the rack is not set.

Monitoring PDU

Using OMPC, you can view the PDU socket connection mapping with the devices. Starting OMPC 3.2, you can also monitor the

temperature, humidity, and other necessary metrics in a data center by using environmental sensors.

To monitor a PDU, click Devices in the left pane, navigate to the required PDU, view the Details section of the screen.

The instantaneous power value of the PDU is displayed, and the details section of the screen also lists the PDU details read from the

device. It displays NA when the data is not provided on the PDU device.

Power Monitoring