Users Guide

Getting started

This chapter introduces the OpenManage Power Center management console, and presents several use cases that describe

standard uses of OpenManage Power Center.

Topics:

• Management console introduction

• Home page

• Common use cases

• Supported and unsupported devices

Management console introduction

To use OpenManage Power Center, you must open a Web browser and log in. The management console opens with a list of the

available screens in the left navigation pane, and the currently open screen in the right pane.

Table 2. Main OMPC Pages

Main Screen Available actions on the screen

Home The Home screen introduces OpenManage Power Center features, and lists initial setup steps

that you can complete after setup. You can click the Help to get additional information. On this

screen you can view:

● Overall events generated by the managed devices

● Events from the top five groups generated by the managed devices

● The total number and type of discovered devices

● The top five energy consuming device groups at the root level

● Information about power and space headroom

● Analyze top power cap and temperature threshold offenders

● Most underutilized racks

● Top 10 most recent critical and warning events

● Information about power and temperature history

Tasks

The Tasks feature enables you to perform device discovery and power control tasks such as

power-on and power-off, on a specific device or group of devices. On the Tasks screen you

can:

● Create new discovery and power control tasks

● Edit or delete discovery and power control tasks

● Start or re-run discovery and power control tasks

● Refresh the list of discovery or power control tasks

● View the summary of the discovery or power control tasks

Devices On the Devices screen, you can view both network-discovered and manually added devices. On

this screen you can:

● Add groups

● Add unsupported devices

● Create logical groups

● Set the estimated maximum power for devices

● Edit devices or managed groups

● Delete devices or managed groups

12 Getting started