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

• Highest Temperature — The Highest temperature report displays the devices that has the highest temperature.
• Lowest Temperature — The Lowest temperature report displays the devices that has the lowest temperature.
• Events Reports — The Events report displays the events with a specied severity level for a specied time-period.
• PDU Outlet Assignment — The PDU outlet assignment report displays the PDU name, PDU IP, PDU location, PDU outlet assignment
and other relevant details.
• PDU Sensor Report — The PDU sensor report displays the PDU environment sensors information and other relevant details.
• Thermal Event Policy — The thermal event policy report displays the thermal event based policy settings and other relevant details.
• VM Power Hoarders — The VM Power Hoarders report displays the details of virtual machines that consume more power.
• VM Power Frugal — The VM Power Frugal report displays the details of the virtual machines that consume the least power.
• VM General Inventory— The VM General Inventory report displays the inventory details of the virtual machines.
Topics:
• Viewing Report Details
• Creating reports
• Editing reports
• Deleting reports
• Adding report groups
• Editing report groups
• Deleting report groups
Viewing Report Details
You can view the details of a particular report in the Reports list, in the bottom section of the Reports screen.
On the Reports screen, click the report name whose details you want to view. The details are displayed in the following tabs.
• Summary — Displays information such as the name, description, report group, and selected attributes of the report.
• Results — Displays the results for the attributes that were selected while creating the report.
You can export the report in CSV or XML format to the required location on your system.
Creating reports
1 In the left pane, click Reports > New Reports.
2 Select a report type from the drop-down list. The available options are:
• Power Hoarders
• Power Frugal
• Power Data
• Power Headroom
• General Inventory
• Power Hoarders Rack
• Power Frugal Rack
• Raw Monitoring Data
• Comparison Report
• Thermal Data
• Power Utilization
• Power Threshold Violations
• Power Cap Violations
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Managing reports