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
The following formulae is used used in calculating the underutilization value of a server,
Servers with an average utilization of less than or equal to <X>
, where <X> represents a utilization percentage. The range is between 80% to 20%, by default the value is set to 15.
Servers with <Y> percentile utilization being less than or equal to <X>.
, where <Y> is the percentile. The range is between 0% to 20%, by default the value is set to 95.
Conguring underutilized servers settings
OMPC enables you to view the underutilized servers based on the power consumption.
1 In the left pane, click Analysis > Underutilized Servers and then click .
2 Enter a value in Power Utilization (X) text box and Percentile Utilization (Y) text box.
NOTE: The range for Power Utilization is 0–20. By default, the value is set to 15.
NOTE: The range for Percentile Utilization is 80–100. By default, the value is set to 95.
3 Click Save.
Power Analysis
OMPC helps you in monitoring and managing power in a data center. The observed monitoring data is helpful in planning capacity
expansion, placement suggestions.
In the left pane, click Analysis > Power Analysis. The Power Analysis screen is displayed. On this screen, you can:
• Perform data center capacity expansion planning
• Analyze and view the placement suggestions
• Analyze and view power and space gains from underutilized servers
Analyzing capacity expansion
1 In the left pane, click Analysis and then click Power Analysis.
The Power & Space Analysis page is displayed.
2 In the Capacity Planning tab, select applicable check box against the device group.
3 Select the required server model for analysis from the Select Server Model section.
Provide the number of servers and the priority of those servers in the respective elds.
4 Click Analyze to analyze the capacity for selected servers.
You can view the details of the analysis in Resource Availability section.
You can also export the report to the required location on the system.
Viewing placement suggestions
1 In the left pane, click Analysis and then click Power Analysis.
The Power & Space Analysis page is displayed.
2 In the Placement Suggestions Based on Available Power and Space section, click Launch.
Placement Suggestion window is displayed.
Analysis
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